Spaces are perhaps my attempt to reconcile with both my failure and/or betrayal of architecture as a profession. I initially entered the world very briefly as an architect. But I was young and ill prepared for such an industry. I ended up giving up. But still to this day, I can truly feel there is something both fantastic and magical about architecture as a pure process. Architecture not as a result but as a process. And this is something that haunts me to this day.
I ended up transitioning to the flat surface/plane and the flatness was at times both liberating and suffocating at the same time. Moving to the flat plane of graphic design created a kind of void that I have, over the years, tried to fill here and there with limited success. But in recent years, I have begun to, perhaps, ceremoniously attempt to break out of these confines. Here are some recent projects where I am trying to see where both two and three dimensions might meet. Definitely not within the world of architecture but perhaps a distant cousin to spatial processes. A work in progress, as usual.
1, One Sound.
RYSE Hotel
Commissioned installation/wall graphic.
1800cm x 160cm
Aluminum, PVC, LED
Archival Ultraviolet Printing
2022.
Thieves Like Us
Mixed Media
2021
d/p
Never, Never Land
Mixed Media
2021
땅따먹기
Visual report Seoul
Doosung In The Paper Gallery
Both
100cm x 265cm x 4
White Ink on Transparent Polycarbonate
2021
Platform-L Contemporary Art Center
2.
Vans x Worksout
Commissioned Mural/Wallgraphic.
5.8 x 7meters
Black Ink Silkscreen on Wall/Concrete.
2021.
2, Two Sounds.
RYSE Hotel
Commissioned installation/wall graphic.
1800cm x 160cm
Aluminum, PVC, LED
Archival Ultraviolet Printing
2021.
Sound 29 / 23
Sound 66 / 10
Sound 29 / 16, 23
Sound 66 / 1
Sound 52 / 10
Sound 52 / 0
Sound 56 / 2, 4
Sound 52 / 9, 10
Sound 38 / 10
Sound 52 / 9, 10
Sound 56 / 2
Offset Lithography
2020
Before One’s Time
Silkscreen on Mixed Surfaces
T5 Lights
Gyup, Gyup, Gyup
2020
3
Three Sounds
1800cm x 160cm
Aluminum, PVC, LED
Archival Printing
2020
Commissioned by Ryse Hotel
Changeling
1300mm x 20500mm
Archival Print
Rich Black on Canvas
Artist Print
2019
17717
Rolling More Dice
Archival Printing
Mixed Media
Misc. Structure, Surface
2019
Commissioned by Hanhwa Fireworks Festival
Part, Whole, Part
Mixed Media Installation
2000mm x 1200mm
3 Objects
Monoprint
Polycarbonate x Steel
2019
Prounish 1.A
600mm x 800mm x 400mm
Formax
2018
Crow’s Eye View
Single Channel Video
2018
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