THESE TRIANGLES, inspired by the fruit named Durian, represent myself. Durian has very thorny, strong, intimidating appearance and even stinks. Someone who does not know Durian, judging from its external features, might want to stay away from it. However, by someone who has tasted it, Durian is called as king of the fruits. Because its soft pulp tastes wonderful enough to be called as king of the fruits. I thought these two conflicting aspects of Durian, double-sidedness, is similar to myself. I have direct, frank, outgoing and fearless personality from the outside. But inside of me, I have very soft, moody even vulnerable part of me. Plus, just like Durian I am the IRREPLACEABLE for people who favor me.
TO ILLUSTRATE the perky and outgoing personality, vivid vibe of red, yellow and blue was used in both portraits. The representational portrait was made with the photo of myself and edited with Illustrator. The abstract portrait was hand drawn and photoshopped to adjust saturation.
WHAT INTEREST ME is people. I am always interested to delve into people’s emotion, how they feel, how they display and hide those feelings, which emotion drives certain person the most, how that emotion affects his self-identification, and etc. How people behave also interests me. I like observing how people react to or interact with certain items in everyday life. Through observation, design failure could be detected and mended. When I find something is poorly designed, I like to discuss about it with others to find better solution. Through the process sometimes I discover totally new solution or even new flaws. This process always thrills me.
HYEWON SHIN 
