Nocturnal Growth is the solo exhibition that consists of the experimentation and study of light reflections from a series of projected animations on different textures of materials such as mirrors, glass, fabrics, threads and papers.

Nocturnal Growth implies the growth that takes place in the dark, invisible and quiet places.

The exhibition depicts the nocturnal growth that we go through—the intangible and invisible growth associated with processing and digesting our mental and emotional experiences in solitude in a dark and quiet place when we face ourselves. It is also about the behind-the-scenes efforts and labor I have gone through many times at night in silence while everyone is asleep—all the practice, trial and errors, experiments, and work I have done sacrificing my sleep accumulating into tangible growth over a long period of time.

This exhibition also visualizes my life experiences and lessons learned. The core concept is that what defines us comes from our mental and emotional growth and how we process our life experiences. The race, ethnicity, and social status do not define who we are.

What defines who we are forms from what we go through mentally and psychologically through our experiences. These things shape us and grow us internally unlike physical growth or what we were instilled in our upbringing in our first 15-20 years of life.

I created the live footage, animations and music for the film, Origami. It was an attempt to evolve and experiment my past film, Rise Up. It was screened on two different occasions—at Area 405 gallery as a part of the Sweaty Eyeball Animation Festival‘s exhibition artists’ screening, and New Works film screening night at 2640 Space.

I composed both animations and sounds for the animation, Blooming. It was displayed on three different occasions—in SNF Parkway Theater, at Artscape, and as a part of the collaborative and immersive installation art in the exhibition, Blooming, with the sculptor, Sookkyung Park in 2024.

Selected as one of the 14 best works in the exhibition, Sprung8, my animation, “Ring de Kaleidoscope” was shown at Big Screen Plaza in New York City for 2 weeks and at Arthouse.NYC for 3 weeks in March to April 2024.

My animation, Ring de Kaleidoscope was also shown in SNF Parkway Theater in Baltimore on the weekend in September 2024 as a part of their opening program. It was also projected on the storefront windows on North Avenue and Charles Street in Station North Art District in the entire month of August 2024 in Baltimore as a part of Artscape 2024 program called Windows on Charles.

This frame-by-frame animation, Scene 1 from Origin was displayed at Lights Out 2024—a group video exhibition at Brentwood Arts Exchange from June to August 2024. It was also shown in the exhibition, Balance at Arthouse.NYC and Big Screen Plaza in May 2024. Scene 1 + 2 was exhibited in Asia Maryland 2024 at The Asian Arts & Culture Center from September to December 2024. I recorded and composed the sounds using my MIDI keyboard and Ableton Live.