** Indirectly Handling Social Issues of the current fluctuations of variant coronavirus/stock/crypto/real-estate market/inflation ** Insights for The Work Since 2019(the end of the year), we’ve been through the most horrible situation for the COVID-19. But fortunately, there’s some improvement by decreasing death rates recently for many vaccines out there. Nevertheless, in spite of the relative relief of the phase of the disease, we still have many remaining and ongoing social issues like unstoppable variant coronavirus, super awful fluctuations of stock/crypto/real-estate market, and severe inflation. From the last late year, 2021 to the current 2022, many international central banks including the representative one, the US FED(the Federal Reserve) have been trying to tighten monetary policy called “Tapering(economic term)” such as rebalancing the national subsidies(due to the COVID-19, many countries used to do the quantitative easing like spreading money to the public, but recently it’s vice versa like reducing the COVID-19 relief fund), as well as increasing the interest rate for the severe inflation. For this reason, the stock market especially Nasdaq(mainly tech companies) has plummeted due to the increase of the pressure of the debt redemption for the higher interest and so many factors. Furthermore, the real-estate price has been constantly increasing in spite of the radical interest rate increase in the mortgage. Due to a lock of houses/construction materials and human power supplies. Some people expect that the real-estate market would plummet. On the other hand, according to “Zillow”, the price of houses would increase by 16% this year, 2022. In this regard, we still have many social issues to resolve. So, like the reason why I created the “New World”, I wanted to deliver the message of the positive vibe of our human life even during these tough situations. ** Making Process / Interpretation of The Work With that in mind from my insights above, I came up with the following idea like human beings are too tiny to resolve all social issues in that we could barely expect and control all the disasters including the COVID-19, inflation, and stock/crypto market. So, I tried to depict human beings as small mini-people compared to a bigger society(Kitchen Space). Even though it seems like we’re controlled by a huge society like in the movie “Trueman Show”, we people are trying to find answers while struggling. For instance, although one of the mini-persons is about to get cooked from the pot in my work, that mini-person manages to get out of it with the rope. In addition, there’s another guy jumping on the pot’s lid. Since this guy feels pain for the hot pot lid(hardship of bad social issues), it shows that the guy tries to resolve the issue. As I mentioned about the real-estate/stock/crypto markets from my insights, while the building in the work keeps moving up and down in a faster way which implies the fluctuations of social issues, there’s a mini-person sitting down in the window is trying to enjoy with laughs as much as possible even under the unstable condition. On the other hand, I also showed someone hanging between the building and a wall who’s struggling in a tough situation too but there’s a wish that guy could escape out of it. Next to the building, you can also find one guy climbing using a ladder. It implies that human beings’ psychology triumphs over adversity or ambition of success to go up to the peak. Also, it’s a similar one from the car moving on the cupboard, what a car(there’s a mini-person inside the car, you can take a close look at it and find the guy) keeps moving means to carry on with our work. If you move your eyes to the kitchen countertop, there’s a guy who’s struggling to move a tomato. It means that the tomato stands for the necessary food for humans. But, due to inflation, all the price indexes of the grocery goods/foods are too expensive to purchase. Likewise, there’s a guy who’s battling against the big dishes(expensive goods) to pull out one of them. Also, in terms of the cheese scene, there’re two guys, one is the rich owning most cheese and the other one is the poor retaining only a piece of cheese. During the COVID-19, the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger. For example, at the beginning of the COVID-19 season, many real-estate prices were low and even the mortgage rate was super low. In this situation, the existing rich took advantage of that time and bought many assets like houses. And then the real-estate price is really high now, they get richer. On the other hand, there’re also other dancing people on the countertop who are trying to enjoy the situation like the guy who’s sitting in the building window. Sometimes we have to encounter hard tasks and make great efforts to resolve them, but we also need to take our minds off of our worries for a while like dancing people.
