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Ki Wa was interested in graffiti well before Work in Progress. He developed a seven-year performance called "media-graffiti" whose goal was the perpetuation of his name in the media in a manner similar to a graffiti tagger. During that time he also developed an androgynous media persona. Work in Progress combines that persona with the gesture of spray painting the Japanese symbol for "no" (also the symbol for "yang", of yin and yang) in a series of quasi-rural areas. Nature is invoked on terms that are completely artificial, notably the keyed up Warhol palette. Yet the piece succeeds at creating and sustaining a mysterious and meditative atmosphere.
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