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Doors, Choi Jeong-Hwa, 2009, Seoul, South Korea
Doors was a huge ten-story installation created from 1,000 reused doors. Choi has said that he
became an installation artist because he could not draw or paint, but enjoyed walking around the
city looking for interesting trash, discarded items, and photographing what he saw.
A possible class or school project would be to create an installation art form for one’s school. A
teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin with the assistance of her students created a Happy Happy
installation in the front hall of her school. The teacher was inspired by the 2009 exhibit of Happy
Happy at the Los Angeles County Art Museum.
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