Ilhan New Memorial Hall

Overview

One man's enterprise rebuilt as collage on a 9,376px media façade — seed to harvest across a single wall.

Film in a memorial hall slides easily into chronology. Follow born, studied, founded, gave away in order and what the visitor leaves with is a list of facts. This piece took a single metaphor — seed to harvest — as its skeleton instead of a timeline.

At 9,376px the façade is far wider than one field of view, so the visitor cannot hold the whole surface at once. It was designed as a wall read from left to right, putting the direction of growth and the direction of circulation on the same axis. A companion piece made in the same series plays alongside it.

AI generation produced period texture and material imagery — plants, documents, medicinal ingredients. The portrait was not handed to generation. Generating the face of a real person risks producing an impression that is simply untrue, so the supplied portrait material was used as it stands, with generated material wrapped around it.

“Instead of following a chronology, one metaphor was allowed to grow to the far end of the wall.”