Artist Choi Jeong-Hwa often works with recycled and found materials. When asked about art he says, “I believe that everything is art. Every material found in the kitchen, your room, the streets — everything in everyday life can be art.”
Recently he worked with 1,000 recycled doors to transform a plain 10 story building into a bright patterned building in Seoul, Korea. These plain medium sized, multi-story buildings are called huh ga bang, and are everywhere in the city next to the old wooden, shingled houses.
The artist, who calls himself an “intruder,” works with ordinary objects in his installations and public projects.
Choi has worked with other found and recycled materials including trash. He did a piece called Happy Happy Plastic Stadium, where he collected trash from the Olympic games and made a large installation made of 1.7 million pieces of discarded plastic which covered a stadium in Seoul.
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