Daily Scape
2025Daily Scape is a work born from the combination of the series Daily Narratives and Collectible Scape. While Daily Narratives focuses on the theme of “observations and conversations in daily life,” Collectible Scape explores the “documentation and preservation of vanishing landscapes.” By intersecting these two perspectives, the work attempts to visualize the flow of time hidden in everyday life, layers of memory, and the cycle of creation and disappearance. In Daily Narratives, fragments of daily life are captured on a smartphone, then re-generated using ComfyUI (an AI tool for node-based manipulation of Stable Diffusion), and further transformed into generative animations through TouchDesigner (a node-based visual coding software). The landscapes reshaped by AI are both reflections of my own life and forms that merge into someone else’s memories. This work, which emerged through dialogue with ChatGPT, presents a new kind of conversation between humans and AI, between the individual and others. Meanwhile, Collectible Scape is a series that digitally reconstructs everyday landscapes and artifacts that are disappearing. Playgrounds, wells, public telephones, incinerators, and roadside flowers—objects often overlooked—are preserved as data and given new life through TouchDesigner. Inspired by the Zen concept of hika-rakuyo (falling petals and leaves), the series depicts how both living and inanimate things inevitably undergo change and disappearance. Daily Scape is an exploration of “another landscape” that emerges between observation, documentation, and regeneration in a constantly changing everyday life. It embodies the potential of art as a digital recording device that re-generates memory, connecting past, present, and future.
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