Dimensions / 25x25cm
Medium / Paper, Ink

Paik presented Shuya Abe, his engineer-collaborator, with a drawing composed of two sheets, on each of which two of the four strokes of the Chinese character 心 were written. Shuya Abe helped Paik with the technical realization of many of Paik’s works and developed Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer with Paik in 1970. Paik called Abe “the greatest doctor in the world” and believed Abe to be a person with whom he could communicate even in the most serious situation. Abe, too, was always ready to cooperate with Paik rather than to assert himself. In that this work is complete only when the two sheets are overlapped with each other, it exquisitely represents what their relationship was like.