Diaristic Project

This is an ongoing project that involves the development of the diacritic method, which has been built upon a video archive of daily life collected since 2019 from Korea and the UK using compact and handy devices, such as GoPro, Camcorder, and iPhone. Presented in the form of a film diary, this experimental project aims to explore the concept of atmosphere in daily life, recognising it as a direct and active component of our existence through the lens of the camera. The highly personal and intricate small actions and environments often go unnoticed and remain undefined, prompting an examination of the persistent roots of life and how a collection of sensations crystallises events into a tangible expression of existence. What underlies this yearning for transient moments?

In this context, atmosphere refers to a collection of sensations inherent in daily life, profoundly influencing our everyday experiences that shape individual subjectivity and our being in the world, which we often unconsciously overlook its significance. Dailiness is not a given; it is scattered, manifesting in varying contexts; it is something that is here and then found there, at times present and then absent. This indefinite, experiential, and rhythmic atmosphere is in a constant state of flux, perceived through spatial experiences. This indefinite, experiential, and rhythmic atmosphere is constantly changing and sensed through the spatial experience. It requires conscious awareness to become sensible, and only in that moment does it become dailiness.

The editing of footage, like poetic practice, selects every particular detail from the private and public surroundings, separating and composing one experience of reality from another. In this process, the director raises questions regarding the ambiguity of dailiness, whether it embodies serenity or agitation prior to a tempest, wind, or rain. This atmospheric quality is not merely private and internal; it also encapsulates the emotions that accumulate within the perceiver's corporeal space.

Exhibition View

It will incorporate two types of practice: one focuses on a multi-framed collection of footage accompanied by a personal narrative, while the other showcases the working progress of generative image. Both aim to capture the scattered nature of sensations in daily life and the incarnation of memories in the process of writing the diary, continuously overlapping and resonating together, questioning the meaning of existence where time and space are scattered and lose their force of linearity and coordinates.

Work in Progress

Subtitled Mould, this series of experiments regenerates images to capture the collective aspect of atmospheric experiences. The process of generative imaging will employ a program that I developed independently with machine learning. In this diary, each segment of collected footage will be reassembled into still images, aiming to disrupt linear temporality and preserve the pure sensation of the experience captured at the moment of recording. Subsequently, the program will be tailored to each movement, colour, and sound within the footage, resulting in abstract, continuous, and enigmatic moving images.