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Artist Dain Yoon, from Korea, creates mind-boggling optical illusions using only her body and paint. .
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“The reason I started to paint illusions is that I believe people live in illusions. People perceive everything in their own subjective way. My illusions distort reality and perception that are generally shared by most people.”
-Dain Yoon
-Dain Yoon
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“A lot of people seem to think illusion means tricking people into something but I don’t think of it that way. I don’t think of illusion necessarily as trickery but a wider concept. I think that anything that seems slightly different from its original form could be an illusion or take you out of the illusion you’re living in.”
-Dain Yoon
-Dain Yoon
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“I have always enjoyed painting since I was very young, and, frankly speaking, it was what I was best at. I attended Yewon Arts Secondary and Seoul Arts High School, graduating at the top of my class. These art schools are the most prestigious in Korea. After I got into art college, I studied scenography. I had a chance to design theatrical makeup and to draw on the body of actors of plays,”
-Dain Yoon
-Dain Yoon
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“However, after participating in theatrical makeup and costume, I felt a strong need to do my own creative work, not being part of a play. So, for my personal artwork, I began painting on the bodies of several models. A little later, I decided to draw on my own face because the face is the most strong and sensitive part of the body where I can deliver the delicate emotions I so seek to convey.”
-Dain Yoon
-Dain Yoon
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“The first step is conceptualizing ideas. This takes the longest. The last step always depends. If I paint myself and want to record this as a digital photo, this recording would be the last step. If it is a performance, then doing the actual performance would be the final step in the creation of the work.”
-Dain Yoon
-Dain Yoon
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For more of Dain’s work, check out her Instagram.
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