Silk Screen / Kaboom - Sorrow, Ecstasy, and Silent

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Silence / 침묵
<82.5 x 98.5>
oil ink and silk screen on paper

Only 1 edition

The 'Kaboom' Exhibition was all performed by Silk Screen Printing by Yongjin Cheong, myself. I am always intrigued by the relationship between God and the mankind, us. I believe the Atomic Bomb has changed everything about everuthing about us. I'd like to think it was the first challenge to the god and , at the same time, the proof that we can never be God. ' While God creates, we always destroy.' That's why I started to study about the Atomic Bomb and found this Robert Oppenheimer's Interview.

'We knew the world would not be the same.

A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince
that he should do his duty
and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,

"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

I suppose we all thought that one way or another.'

The quote from the interview was my great inspiration and trigger : 'A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.' Robert was describing the high-ranking officials who were at the bunker to watch the first detonation of the atomic bomb including Robert, himself.