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What remained, what blurred, 2025
What remained, what blurred brings together two interconnected works developed from lived experiences in Schiemond, exploring how perception, presence, and material traces emerge within structured environments. Through visual extraction, analog algorithms, and sound-based conditional design, the project examines what remains, what is erased, and what becomes blurred in everyday encounters with the urban landscape. By translating sensory impressions, both visual and auditory, into layered representations and wearable forms, the work reflects on how individuals navigate, reinterpret, and momentarily disrupt the rigid systems that shape space.
This projects are conceptually connected to the subsequent project, <Between Lines and Lives>, and serves as a foundation for its further exploration.
Various Media, Digital Work, Video
Inkjet print on transparent vinyl, mounted on acrylic, 200x200mm, 2025
[Algorithm]: Erased/Remained
This project investigates traces of material presence within the urban environment of Schiemond through an analog, rule-based process. By collecting images of surfaces where materials have peeled, faded, or been partially erased, the work examines what visually and contextually remains over time. Using a series of analog “algorithms,” the images are processed through controlled adjustments of exposure, contrast, inversion, and threshold to extract layers of what is preserved and what has disappeared.
Rather than automating the process digitally, the project treats image manipulation as an interpretive method, where each step reveals different conditions of visibility and loss. The resulting compositions isolate residual textures and fragmented forms, transforming everyday material decay into abstract visual systems. Through this process, the work reflects on memory, erosion, and the subtle negotiation between presence and absence embedded in the urban surface.
Algorithm 1 [Erased/Remained]
• Collect some images of visually
and contextually remained/erased by layers
Algorithm 2 [Erased/Remained]
• Collect images that materials got
peeled off
• [Photoshop] Put effect of threshhold 40% to emphasize the materiality on image and extract the
layers of remained
Algorithm 3 [Erased/Remained]
• [Photoshop] Put invert effect to
emphasize to emphasize the materiality and extract erased layers
• [Photoshop] Put effect of threshhold 40% to emphasize the materiality on image and extract the
layers of erased
Algorithm 4 [Erased/Remained]
• Found error that the light situation of each images can make different effect
• [Photoshop] Put effect of Exposure and contrast to make all
images in same condition
• [Photoshop] Put effect of threshhold 40% to emphasize the materiality on image and extract the
layers of remained
Algorithm 5 [Erased/Remained]
• [Photoshop] Put invert effect to
emphasize to emphasize the materiality and extract erased layers
•[Photoshop] Put effect of thresh-
hold 40% to emphasize the mate-
riality on image and extract the
layers of erased
I am Blurred by Sounds
In schiemond, Rotterdam, I imagined a state in which wll senses were blocked, relying soley on sound to perceive space. Behind me, people passed by, and from the rear, the overlapping sound of motocycles, cars, and bicycles merged together. In one area, fragments of conversation could be heard, while in another corner, an unidentified motor sound continued to repeat endlessly.
Where am I? What is this space?
As I attempted to perceive the space using my sound sensory system, the environment felt blurred and indistinct. This ambiguity brought both confusion and a sense of calm simulataneosly. I recorded the sound of this spot and designed interactive motion based on the audio data.
Inspired by the confusion and calmness generated by unfamiliar, repetitive, and intersecting sounds, I conceived forms that respond to these auditory stimuli. By wearing the work on the body, I sought to express the experience of blurness of spatial perception.
Various Media, Digital Work, Video
Inkjet print on transparent vinyl, mounted on acrylic, 200x200mm, 2025
Design by June Park
Master Interior Architecture:Research+Design,
Pietzwart Institute, Rotterdam