Series ‘The Verb from Nature’ / Work Note

Waves are rising. Leaves are wobbling. Light is shining.Movements of nature are captured in our heads as generalized images.They just pass beside us like one of daily sceneries while being not able to bring any attention.However, every movement of nature has never been the same even once.

Direction and speed, angle, unspecified repetition, knotty afterimages, colors getting darker and lighter, even patterns that seem fixed in one spot. Innumerable natural elements are overlapped or dispersed, connected or disconnected, and continued or split, which makes waves, shakes leaves and brightens light. And at that time, ‘The Verb from Nature’, the unique movement of only each moment, is completed. The verb created by nature comes into our eyes as a patterned scene, but it has never been repeated anytime anywhere, and will not be repeated anytime anywhere.

Something that is unique enough itself and cannot be done over again. Discovering the uniqueness from movements of nature that we meet routinely becomes a special experience in recognizing an extraordinary ordinary day. Generalized and standardized landscape because of repetition of daily nature can bring back its own beauty when the uniqueness only I can see here now is presupposed. Daily landscape turns into something different that is worth appreciating sometimes and a little touching. Wouldn't it definitely make you feel better to discover and experience your everyday scenery that only you can sense? For yourself, not anyone else.

Series (The Verb from Nature) is the project to document unique nature’s movements(The Verb) by observing and capturing each nature scenery in daily life, making various moving patterns, and combining it with techno music. We felt that techno music discovers rules in irregularities by merging/dispersing, connecting/disconnecting, and continuing/segmenting sounds, which existed as fragmented and independent entities, in uncountable ways. In addition, techno’s sound-landscapes look like movements of nature in that it is finally completed as a pattern that is never repeated. The audiovisual experience created by techno music and nature’s moving patterns can make us meet an unconscious opportunity to discover our own natural verbs in daily life.

This series started with ‘The Verb #1’ will continue to expand to infinity like 2, 3, 4, 5… as long as we have our own unique scenery. With (The verb from Nature), we hope you meet tomorrow on the road a new verb that only you can get, discover more and more verbs that can awaken your new sense, and also which becomes good energy to make you drive yourself.


Visual art by soosoosoop
Editor by Junghee Kim
Music by Leejunghyuk
Mankinart present / MA40009