We cannot look at scars on our mind but also cannot check them everytime. <Portraits of Suicide Note>, turning 44 suicide notes into 44 pieces of portrait, shows the invisible scars of suicides through faces where they could never hide.
Gathered from news articles, the last messages by people leaving world behind and the last names the world gave them are all about the whole human society from school, workplace, to home, e.g. ‘high school student A’, ‘firefighter B’, and ‘single elderly C’. That may prove the scars are not made by only one person. Furthermore, the audience of the artwork is not the suicides but someone left behind.
The set of artwork is to show people what invisible scars may look like and then to let them think about who made this scars by the way of binding set of portraits and suicide notes in a book.
The book is made of two parts, half filled with pages of drawing(image) and another half with pages of suicide note(text) rotated 180 degrees. Readers should check which image matches which text by page numbers. To rotate and turn the pages is not convenient but, well, the story of the book is not either. The installation of the artwork with drawing on paper and suicide note on post-it fluttering represents a remanent place of the dead.
