Carpe diem Painting

(Carpe diem 120x60.6 oil on canvas 2014) We often encounter fateful moments of our lives in circunstances that appear neither significant nor extravagant. A good example is a simple roll of the dice. Do Min's photo-realist oils record the splash as a falling die hits the water. The title of his series, 'Enjoy the Moment’, parallels Horace's wise phrase, Carpe Diem (seize the day). No matter how high or low the stakes are, for one moment in our lives we gamble on the outcome of the roll of a small cube. Through brilliance of colour and a dramatic sense of dynamism Do Min’s works capture the feeling of thrill and tense anticipation of the final result. Among the numerous perspectives of and metaphors for life, Do Min has used dice extensively in his work to portray the apparent cruelty innate to our fate, perhaps because dice offer the best analogy of the transient and dynamic aspects of our fortune. Fate is not something that must be obeyed in its given form, but rather an opportunity that is subject to change according to the paths we take and the decisions we make. ‘Enjoy the Moment’ suggests that if we are bound to encounter fate in one way or another, we might as well embrace and enjoy it. Although a simple object, a tossed die dramatizes poignant moments of our lives. While in the air, the die is ruled by mechanisms of chance that cannot possibly be fathomed; when it comes to a rest, the same die affirms the inevitable nature of fate. From this perspective, a roll of dice contains within the action itself a moment of indeterminacy as well as a seed of creation, and the outcome points to an existence chosen by the action of rolling the dice. Do Min wanted to use the rolled dice to emblematize his affirmation of the undetermined and unpredictable life, dramatizing the impulse and excitement of subjecting ourselves to the unknown fate of this world. Do depicted dice on a canvas using a material similar to that used to make actual dice. He then coated the images with cured resin as the so-called "icing on the cake". To put it more accurately, he placed small drops of the resin and allowed them to disperse; the dispersal of the resin was controllable based on his experiments.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:23.9 W x 47.2 H x 1.1 D in

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