Truth in Boxes: Gold Boxes

We live in a rapidly moving society in which eight-second attention spans, immediate gratification, and opportunistic behavior are becoming more common. Interpersonal relationships are easily built and broken. People are judged and valued by surface appearances. Minimal effort is made to peer beyond the surface in knowing a fellow human being.

In this series of Truth in Boxes, Ms. Kim invites us to consider the many boxes seen in everyday life. They exist in different sizes, strengths, and semblances. When a delivery box arrives in this internet-order era, excitement occurs as we see the label or the innovative design on the box surface in anticipation of its contents. However, this is fleeting as the box is opened and cast aside easily.

Similarly, people exist in different sizes, strengths, and semblances.

Gold Boxes

In this work, Ms. Kim shows us a snapshot of humanity as we look upon various formed boxes connected together on a canvas. The gold color represents attempts to be accepted by means such as wearing the right clothing or jewelry, saying the right things, or eating the right foods. The dark color represents the artist’s sadness as she sees value being placed on the superficial and the consequences of such actions.