Here is a frame of a statue of a person in the sculpture workshop of an artist*. The building of the sculpture was stopped two years ago when the scandal of ex-president Park Geun-hye and her friend Choi Soon-sil became exposed. The five-meter high frame was built to represent feelings of awe and respect that the people who planned the statue had felt. In other words, time has not completely said goodbye to the figure. I planned to capture the scene in a video and present this as a funeral, an act of leaving her to rest. I hired a drone and a professional drone operator to make more of a spectacle for the video creating a situation where the person’s scale is being defied just as she has been heroized. However, the drone refused to follow the operator’s orders because it was not well connected to the satellite GPS location which was inside of an iron producing factory. The drone tried to keep away from the iron scaffolding that was supporting the statue’s frame. The drone flew out of its intended direction and in the end crashed into the structure and fell down. The scene of the funeral to leave her turned out to be a failure through the resistance of the drone.
