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100 Desires to See the Sky

Kang (2013 -)

“Drill two holes into a canvas. Hang it where you can see the sky.”
- from Painting To See The Sky (1961), Ono Yoko

 
"100 Desires to See the Sky" is a series of site-specific installations that invite people to see the sky and reflect on their desires—how they align or differ from others', why they may feel such desires in the first place, and which desires they truly want to pursue. The installation features a number of carved papers, each displaying sentences that present the diverse, ordinary (and sometimes unique) desires shared online. In the first version, presented in Cornell’s old Fine Arts Library in 2013, the installation featured 100 papers, each carved with sentences beginning with "I HAVE TO" and loosely attached to the windows. These sentences were adapted from public Twitter posts (Sep-Oct 2012) that originally started with "I Want To" but were altered by replacing "I Want To" with "I Have To." The second version of the installation, designed for a personal home window, presents curated original Twitter messages that begin with "I Want To," collected from public posts in September 2018. While looking up at the sky through the carved holes, the audience can reflect on their desires, internalization, systems of control, and the voidness of desires, like moving clouds.

Related Work: I Want To [link], Void Loop Crave [link]
 



 

2. Home Window (2024)

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1. Fine Arts Library, Cornell (2013)

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Thanks for your interest in my work!
And,
 

I want to let you know that you're loved and someone's reason to smile everyday.
I want to play a little game with you.
I want to be rich enough to smell a glass of wine before I drink it.
I want to protect you even in friendship.
I want to be a sappy asshole.
I want to be a singer not a programmer.
I want to see you but you're not mine.
I want to be what you are.
I want to just enjoy the art instead of hearing what you hoes gotta say.
I want to disappear.
I want to be your last everything.
I want to make sure you know that I love you so much and wish you blessed year and a year full of me.
I want to make you feel better and give you kisses.
I want to taste you but your lips are venomous poison.
I want to wake up with you every single day forever.
I want to tell you one last time, how much you break me down and fix me.
I want to go out tonight, but my bed is calling me at the same time.
I want to be in your deepest thoughts and your best orgasms.
I want to kiss you.
I want to make love to you because I care about you.
I want to go all over Europe and eat all the different kinds of McDonald's.
I want to be your 90-day product model.
I want to delete all my social media but what the FUCK am I gonna do with my time?
I want to cry but I have things to do.
I want to have fun with you!
I want to die* *hahahahaha*
I want to do is just lay down & cuddle.
I want to know what you are thinking at this moment?
I want to see your beautiful natural eye color!
I want to find someone who's in love with art as much as I am.
I want to tell you that I love you, I hope you are well, you are so important to me that it is hard to believe.
I want to just throw myself in the dump cause I feel so useless.
I want to go home so bad.
I want to be finger fucked but I also want fingers in my mouth too?
I want to cuddle and cuddle and cuddle and cuddle and cuddle and cuddle and cuddle and cuddle and cuddle.
I want to tango.
I want to live my life without stress and worries, I don't need to be rich or famous, I just want to be happy.
I want to be someone's favorite part of the day.
I want to jump off a cliff right now.
I want to take all my things, disappear and start my life over somewhere totally different.
I want to look hot.
I want to kiss your wrinkled cheeks and hold your skinny.
I want to dieeeeee want to die want to die.
I want to fuck you so bad.
I want to see you happy.
I want to be with you and dance 'til the sun rise up.
I want to be financially and mentally stable but if my relationship with God ain't stable dating is a myth.
I want to take a nap but I don't wanna fuck up my sleep tonight.
I want to stay.
I want to show you a better world and a true love, you are my love inspiration.


from Twitter in 2019