JOHN D.​   the Photographer

I'About the artist:

 

 

As a foreign student in France, feelings of difference, loneliness, and isolation significantly affected me, causing me to reflect myself into John Doe.

This went on to become a part of my drawings and developed into John Making, an anagram of my real name, Kim Hanjong. It has all been based on my own creation.

 (*John Making can be defined as a series of the performances or processes I’ve been trying in order to make John Doe not be confined to the limit of itself.)

By means of John Making, I’m trying to express my personal desire to reveal my identity and increasingly extend it to the rest of the world.

I don't mean to express either faint identity, which is the lexical meaning of John Doe, or feelings of loneliness and alienation.

Rather, I would like to reveal the potential of John Doe -- the potential to be able to infinitely change into any color like a blank piece of paper.