Jihyun Jung

Night Walker

Night Walker
2013
electric wheelchair, autokinetic movement, searchlight

I thought of absurdity and its motility if there is any. I invented the machine that writes in the air using a strong source of light. The Night Walker moves slowly with the 12 searchlights blinking as writing words and images digitally registered in the device. What’s written in the night sky only manifests as a result of the long exposure to photography. Human eyes don’t have the function to see it. People can only read it after the words are gone. I took the Night Walker to the various places- parks, playgrounds, streets, mountains, ports and seas to write lines from daily newspapers and novels and also some songs and poetry. All the words are written and vanished at the same moment.