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Women Cinemakers He offered his own flesh to save the pigeon. Buddha put a piece of his thigh on a scale to match the weight of the pigeon. However, the pigeon was heavier than his piece of thigh. He put more of his flesh on the scale until his whole body was on the scale. Finally, the weight matched that of the pigeon. This quite moral and allegorical tale about the equality of man and animal was told in such an effective way to a six-year old child. I cannot erase that quite gruesome picture of the human flesh on the scale, and the little pigeon on the other side of the scale from my head. Many artists express the ideas that they explore through representations of the body and by using their own bodies in their creative processes, as you did in the interesting , a captivating performance that can be viewed at https://youngjoolee.net/hair-tsunami. German visual artist Gerhard Richter once underlined that "it is always only a matter of seeing: the physical act is unavoidable": as a multidisciplinary artist deeply involved in performance, how do you consider the relation between the abstract nature of the concepts that you explore in your artistic research and the physical aspect of your practice? Every artistic practice involves abstract thinking and physical exploration of ideas. The medium can change, and performance is one of the medium that I use. I think using one’s own body as an artist is a natural approach, because in order to explore an idea, I need to physically experience to realize what works and what doesn’t. Sometimes this physicalizing of a concept can be much more challenging, because one has to deal with the space, gravity, technical problems, time and funding limitations. However, it can also be the most fun moment, because I get to see the ideas forming before my eyes, experience it, change it and share it with