Choe U-ram (1970-) not only unveils the desires resulting from technological advancement and expresses movement through sculptures that harness engineering processes, he takes it further to create living mechanical devices. URC-1 is a spherical sculpture created from headlights from about 150 cars, and it is a work derived from the artist’s experiences visiting automobile research centers to obtain parts. At automobile research centres, hundreds of test vehicles are scrapped without being released into the market before a single new model is completed. The artist regarded this process of extracting the oil from the car and dissecting it into parts and scrapping the remains to be not like that of butchering an animal at a shop. The artist thought that the headlights and tail lamps piled in one corner of the workshop resembled eyes, any imbued these parts with a new life. He states that “light is an element that signifies a living pulse”, and he transplants LED lights into broken headlights to recreate them into a new spherical star. The title of this work follows the naming scheme of stars, and it shines and quick motion, evincing a powerful life force not unlike the cell division of organisms.