Earl Park

Halo has conventionally been widely used as a metaphor for divinity or authority. Interestingly, the halo of powerful and sacred men in the history deprives them of their personalities and transforms them mere metaphors of authority. The light of the halo, which was supposed to make you stand out, ironically removes your details and creates hollow black out of you in reality. <The Electric Halo Project> is a work to visualize this antinomic essence of the halo behind its existing concept, and attempt to demystify it through the materialization of an idea.
The ‘Halo Augmenting Machine’ is a wearable mechanical armor equipped with a halo generator, which is used to augment the reality by materializing the halo, conceptualized light. It is an image of Homo sapiens who is armed with technology and dreams of Homo deus.

Dimensions: 74.5 × 45 × 45 cm
Materials: LED, aluminium, steel, synthetic resin, fabric

Exhibitions
Medience² Factory, Sejong Center, Sejong, KR (2023.07.26 ~ 08.20)
From now to now, Gallery Wall, Ulsan, KR (2022.07.15 ~ 24)
Gwangju Media Art Festival 2022: Color of City, Asia Culture Center Creation Space5, Gwangju, KR (2022.10.29 ~ 11.09)
Medience² Factory, Ammunition Maintenance Plant, Hongcheon, KR (2022.05.04 ~ 25)
Circle 2021, CICA Museum, Gimpo, KR (2021.09.01 ~ 19)
Rest, itta space, Incheon, KR (2021.05.01 ~ 14)
Mechanics of Mythology, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, KR (2021.02.16 ~ 03.07)