Veri Lee

Karoshi

Illustration
2022
Digital
12" by 9"
People are suffered from stress brought on by overwork, and they were treated as parts of a system that are replaceable, not as individual minds.

“As the economy declined in late Choson, it was hard for ordinary people to make a living even though they overworked. Similarly, in contemporary Korea, it is harder and harder to live a good life as people are suffered from stress brought on by overwork, and they were treated as parts of a system that is replaceable, not as individual minds This illustration contains a broken cyborg human who is deadly damaged and undergoing repairs, as a metaphor for overworking contemporary people.”

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Karoshi
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Veri Lee

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