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< MONAD (2017)> series was inspired by the song "Where are we going from here" from the British music band 'Blackmore's Night'. It's a song that begins with the question," On a long road , miles to go, its winding and cold and its covered with snow. But I ask you what we all want to know. Where are we going from here? ", In addition, the mysterious image of the song evoked the curiosity of the "ancient mystery" of staring at the star of the night sky. Many of the images collected by Googleing resemble stars in the night sky. Like stars, they also have different times in different places. They also look alike from a distance, but when they come closer they reveal different daily lives and stories. I was interested in the universe, and I wanted to express the "energy of the primeval star". The work of < MONAD (2017)> begins with imagining the beginning of the universe. I collects the images scattered in the Internet space as 'Googleing' and makes it into a work. Unlike conventional photographic techniques, it uses an image montage method that condenses thousands of images. Images crushed by small particles become tangled and overlapping, resulting in an abstract shape that disappears and is stained with colors and lines. Digital images are objects that are shaped in color (pixels). disintegrates the shape of the shaped image and returns it to its original color. This is a way to leave only 'color' backwards from the existing images mediated by the concept, unlike the usual photography procedure that expresses concepts through the representation of the world. The mediated concept exists only in the process, and is perceived to be invisible, but melted into color. The 'color' that has been purified is symbolized as a 'monad' from which material elements have been removed. 'Monad' is a concept defined by the 17th century German philosopher Leibniz as the 'basic unit' of all beings. According to him, 'monad' is simple and indivisible, and unlike the atom, it is an immaterial substance whose essential action is representation. The representation is that the outside is contained in the inside, and the 'monad' has relation to the outside and diversity despite its simplicity by this action. work is an attempt to imagine the inside of the world, that is, the essence of the world, through the image represented at the present time by the outside world. In this method, we look for the traces in the shape of the image appearing in the present system. In this way, we use the method of eliminating the shape through the twisted images and leaving only the color that is the trace (feeling). The color work uses the ORE Method, a unique digital imaging process by the artist. Most knowledge of modern man is obtained through 'Google'. Regardless of the field, if you have any questions, you will search Google without fail. It contains all the current exiting information, including the past, and provides most of the realities of society in real time. The reality that we perceive is what we see through the window called 'Googleing'. Whether it is true or false, it is the appearance and the phenomenon of our society. < MONAD (2017)>work is to shoot the world through 'Googleing' which is a modern human recognition lens instead of a camera lens. The world of 'Googleing' is ambiguous in the distinction between virtual and real, and the virtual becomes reality and dominates us. Virtual images are not 'false' but 'desire' and 'interpretation of reality'. < MONAD (2017)> work paradoxically imitates the cause of its existence by rejecting the existential nature of images, that it existed, and by removing the evidence of its existence. Life, which is the cause of existence, is the absolute truth of the world, but also the unknown truth that human beings can not know. Unknown truth is not perceiving but imagining. throws the question "Where do we come from and where?" And provides a place to think about the "human being's worth" which is getting weak in digital civilization.