2. Description

 The subject captured as a still image through the camera is reconstituted through the individual emission of pixels, evoking an effect reminiscent of the pointillist technique in Western painting. In this work, however, the emphasis lies not on the pictorial surface itself but on the temporal process through which the still image gradually emerges as the density of pixels increases—like innumerable stars pouring into view.

 At first, the image appears as if stars were cascading from all directions, conveying an impression of unrestrained energetic amplification. As time progresses and the form of the subject becomes perceptible, this overwhelming proliferation of particles gives way to a sense of ordered diminution—an emotional transition that may be felt as a kind of purification or stabilization of energy.

When a living being visually perceives its surroundings, information from all angles and distances does not arrive at the same rate. Even though the speed of light remains constant, visual information must travel through layers of air whose density continuously varies. Human perceptual capacity is insufficient to discern the subtle differences in atmospheric density or the degree of light scattering that occurs within these layers. As a result, it only appears as though all visual information arrives simultaneously.

 If this is the case, it may be possible to reconsider the process through which living beings recognize images. When emphasis is placed on the act of perception itself, the minute molecular components of visual matter may be understood as entities that are born with the potential energy to be liberated from fixed form. Yet we tend, by habit, to focus only on already stabilized and recognizable shapes.

 In this work, as these visual molecular materials—digital pixels—gradually gather to complete a recognizable form, the process is reset to its beginning and the image is captured again. In doing so, the visual elements return to a state of particulate, indiscriminate energy and begin once more their cycle of amplification.