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Memories deteriorate by way of their fleshy vessels and hard drives outlive our fleeting existence. Our experiences are not partitioned by sense, they are complete experiences adjoining audio, visual, feeling.
OBJECT VIGNETTE is a practice in diary and documentation; 3D fragments of experiences and environments assembled into digital concrete sculpture with audio texture. Each piece is associated with a written story and given movement to associate space with memory, repairing it.
The truth is best recalled in an artistic way, so take a look outside. Everything’s an object. And this is OBJECT VIGNETTE: public digital diary, computerized mementoes.
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아메리카노마을
압구정
apgujeong, seoul, korea
11/19/2022
I’m tired.
I need coffee.
Where should we go?
두유 보이
북한산
Bukhansan, Seoul, Korea
9/13/2022
My friend left the country.
친구는 한국을 떠났다.
Dumped her soymilk on me.
두유를 내게 던져 버리고.
Addict in a city no trees.
나는 나무 없는 도시의 중독자다.
Source code soyboy.
소스 코드 소이 보이.
파이인더샵
홍대입구
Hongdae, Seoul, Korea
11/26/2022
Pie
It’s time to eat
Pie
It’s time to eat
쓰레기의궁전
서울
seoul, korea
??/??/2022
empty palaces are given so much respect and dignity but what of the people living shoulder to shoulder in the city blocks wading through trash? like rats shitting where they eat humans are funny to be revering ancient sites whose sight is usually out of mind. garbage men do a lovely job undoing the disrespect done to pavement but what if the people cared a little more to place trash in location where you don't have to step over it just to get to the grocery store? and while i complain here i’ll also admit there is something aesthetically pleasing about these complementary colored trash bags littering the streets. perhaps i an romanticizing city life…
프레이스태션
방배본동
gubanpo station, seoul, korea
11/15/2022
It's friday night
We'll pickup a pizza for the family
Then rent a DVD
The Playstation's glow lights up me and my brother's room
Now I'm an adult in a foreign country
I can't play games anymore
편의점 가방
압구정
apgujeong, seoul, korea
11/23/2022
I bought the buildings
Not just the product
I mixed them both in my bag
So I can rock it
Like the Balenciaga Lays collab
신사 스페이스
신사
Sinsa, Seoul, Korea
12/4/2022
I'll walk past the fresh fruits and vegetables
I'll buy the plastic and chemicals
I'll order a happy meal or two
I'll say hello to totoro
I'll go home alone
I'll be happy
진로
신사
sinsa, seoul, korea
10/28/2022
this night was interesting because i’d been roaming a part of sinsa i never visit. passing a cafe a random man screams hello and what ensued after that was nothing short of strange. i first join him in delivering a smoothie to a “famous” k-pop trainee, before making our way to the nearest seafood restaurant where he downs three bottles of soju and pays for the entire meal. he told me he was institutionalized by his family and that soju is his version of sex. for a moment i thought it was a scam where he’d leave me behind forcing me to pay the bill but he actually paid for it. i left after an hour of enduring his madness.
라면
신사
sinsa, seoul, korea
10/27/2022
in the beginning i was pleased with the convenience store diet. cheap kimbap soaked in ramen paired with a steady rotation of packaged snacks. i thought id be eating healthier in this country but my desire has returned to its root - chocolate milk and noodles. my daily kimchi intake is trying to build a defense but the probiotic army is weakened by an onslaught of processed garbage flowing out of every city block’s GS25, straight into my stomach.
압구정
apgujeong, seoul, korea
10/4/2022
roaming the streets at night i see figures illuminated by lobby lights as they scurry off to attend to their errands, likely picking up dinner or booze. what lies behind the doors they've emerged from? a neatly organized way of living, prim and proper with a 9 to 5, or an apartment steeped in filth reflective of a jobless depraved hermit whose filth wafts down into the sewers and runs out into the streets? it's a bit haunting to think of all the nasty shit happening next door. if these walls could talk they'd be freed, but instead their creeks and tremors reveal just enough to theorize.
우현궁
uhyeongung palace, seoul, korea
10/9/2022
Concrete and wood
Music and rain
Palace and puddles
옥수역
oksu-dong, seoul, south korea
9/17/2022
Under the concrete earth
Beneath the streetlights
The subway sings
Then out and above the river
Screeching
Memories deteriorate by way of their fleshy vessels and hard drives outlive our fleeting existence. Our experiences are not partitioned by sense, they are complete experiences adjoining audio, visual, feeling.
OBJECT VIGNETTE is a practice in diary and documentation; 3D fragments of experiences and environments assembled into digital concrete sculpture with audio texture. Each piece is associated with a written story and given movement to associate space with memory, repairing it.
The truth is best recalled in an artistic way, so take a look outside. Everything’s an object. And this is OBJECT VIGNETTE: public digital diary, computerized mementoes.
8/13/22-8/15/22
anyang, seoul, south korea
close your eyes for an hour outside. focus on your breath. how does your body feel at rest? feel any pain, heat, or coldness. notice the darkness behind your eyes. listen to your surroundings. watch your thoughts live and die next to your senses. see how they all exist in the same space as a matter of experience. then open your eyes and watch the orb of light rush in, joining that same space.
을지로3가
euljiro, seoul, south korea
9/25/2022
Topsy turvy world in the alley
Interest in lurk and skulk
Life is never dull
진관사
bukhansan, seoul, korea
9/14/2022
This temple sits on the side of Bukhansan and was established in 1011. The story goes that a young king was kicked out of his palace during a power struggle. A local monk took him in until he was old enough to return to the throne and reclaim his power. The king repaid the monk with this temple and sacred grounds. Now, Buddhist ceremonies are held here to "feed wandering spirits and starved demons." (Spirited Away, anyone?) The temple was burnt and heavily damaged during the Korean war but saw restoration in 1963. I was lucky enough to see this temple in person after waking one morning and deciding I deserve a life of my own.
압구정
apgujeong, seoul, korea
9/29/2022
In the concrete world
Who sees tears of those who drown
Step over a no body
북한산
bukhansan, seoul, korea
9/14/2022
Hanok houses are traditional Korean houses and spread across the country are many villages that have been preserved. This one, however, was brand new and rests just below the west face of Bukhansan, Seoul's tallest and most popular mountain for hiking. I sat below the mountain and ate a sandwich for breakfast from a Hanok styled CU. Then I roamed about the development scanning areas of interest. It reminded me of my 1 year long stint post high-school graduation where waking reality was replaced with obsessively building pagodas and eastern cities in Minecraft. Luckily I have shattered that habit and moved onto more adult-like excitements such as drinking too much and getting excited over olive oil.