“Starry Night” Illuminates Nighttime Landscapes with LED Lights

We live in a digital age and so artwork that reflects the intersection of nature and technology is not only on the upswing, but also seems particularly relevant. Korean artist Lee Eunyeol explores this concept in a photographic series called “Starry Night,” which premiered at the Gana Art Space in Seoul, Korea in April 2012. Weaving puck lights and LED strip lights into nighttime landscapes, Eunyeol creates haunting imagery that evokes the ephemeral, almost magical qualities of the planet we inhabit. I love how the images emphasize the aliveness of the most basic natural elements: the cracked earth, a running stream or the roots of a tree.
Eunyeol does not have a website, but sent this artistic statement to the editors of Colossal: “Starry night expresses private spaces given by night and various emotions that are not able to be defined and described in the space. I’ve chosen analogue type for the expression, which attempts to install electric bulbs in an objet to be expressed using back space of night by taking advantage of huge studio. There are two spaces in photographs. One is a space before electric bulbs of familiar landscape are installed and the other is a space after electric bulbs expressed by dispersing personal emotion are installed. Unified light from these two spaces generates a mysterious landscape.”