Kacy Jung

Kacy Jung is a Taiwanese artist based in San Francisco, California.

In this ongoing series "21 Grams- Grocery Bag", I interview and photograph the artists who had left their previous job/professions for being an artist. I intend to create an exhaustive catalog of the faces and untold stories of the middle class, especially those who are battling between having a stable income and pursuing their dreams. Grocery bags are the metaphor of commodity and also the carrier of commodity. This series aims to reflect the internal struggles throughout their transition, life experiences of being artists in our modern era, and the landscape of the human condition in the late capitalism stage. I digitally print the portraits onto pieces of fabric and make photo-sculptures from them. The non-traditional approach of combining digital photography with the softness and mesh-like texture of fabric creates a novel visual language that represents this distorted society and tangled mind.