93. Stride
How we hit it. Experiments with planar tracking, working pose-to-pose, my version of fish and chips.
The weather has been wacky in NYC, going from low 80s to “feels like 37 ºF” in the span of a single week. Winter seems to be bleeding into spring into an early summer, in spurts. Right this minute it is 76 ºF; an uneasy perfect.
I celebrated my birthday earlier this month, and the older I get the more sensitive I am to cycles and repetition. It’s April again, spring again, high again, low again; faster each time, with a sort of heartlessness that’s still beautiful.
After a period of fatigue, injury, and malaise, work has picked up. I’m frantically experimenting and animating.
News
As I shared back in January, my mounted illustration LEISURE | 여유 is on exhibit at Golden HOF / NY Kimchi. It is a part of Hanbeon Deo, a KAAC exhibition—and we are having a formal reception next month! Join us on:
Saturday, May 17, 2025, 1PM at Golden HOF
16 W 48th St, New York, NY 10036
A $35 ticket (RSVP via Resy) gets you 2 hours of passed hors d’œvres, a drink, and conversations with the artists. There will also be merch!
Come and say hi.
In the studio
I recently returned from a month of travel and have started processing photographs, footage, and audio. I’m trying out new tools and materials.
It’s increasingly natural for me to have projects rise out of converging pieces versus be driven by a pre-set narrative, so I spend a lot of time doodling/scribbling/tinkering. And if you’ve been following along, you know that a lot of sketches and notes have been accumulating since late 2023, when I finished 엄마 나라 | MOTHER LAND.
I don’t always know how something will get used, but everything gets sucked in or leveraged in some way, eventually.
There really has been no formula for how these pieces develop into a film. I do try to be consistent with the following studio hygiene:
Notes app for ideas on the go
Index cards and click-pen bedside for writing in the dark, half-asleep
MacWhisper to transcribe audio notes
Loose leaf notes and sketches to freely interact with, reconfigure, annotate
At least three consecutive days of uninterrupted work per week
At least four consecutive hours of work per studio day
Lifting 4x a week, 10K+ steps 7 days a week
Meal prep on Sundays
Things are at a very early (and vulnerable) stage, so the rest of this update is limited to financial investors. (You’re welcome to become one!) I’ll expose more, and more broadly, as the project matures <3
Thanks for reading, appreciate your patience.
Members, read on to see what I’ve been up to.