Going Like Sixty
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Jae-Hyo Lee doesn’t see bent nails as a mistake—he sees them as art. I could do this. I could do art. When I hammer a nail, it usually bends. My mistake has been to think this is a mistake. Lee takes bent nails a couple steps further than I probably would. He carves a big hunk o’ wood, hammers in hundreds of nails, carefully bends them, then grinds them off to reveal their inner beauty.  After scorching the entire surface of the work to achieve a rich black patina, Lee grinds the nails, exposing the raw silver metal in order to “draw a picture on wood using nails,” according to the artist. He sees this process as a metaphor for both physical labor and the way in which such labor can create beauty.
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