2. Description

1) Do we experience the “present”?

 There is undeniably a span of time between the moment when the pure image of an object is emitted and the moment it reaches the sensory organs of a living being. In this sense, we do not live in the present but rather experience the past. Much like observing stars located millions of light-years away with our eyes today, human perceptual and cognitive capacities operate below the level of pure material reality. Through the medium of light we obtain visual cues, and from these we infer, predict, and imagine what lies beyond them.

2) What kind of domain exists “between perception and recognition”?

 Here, “perception” refers to the moment when the pure material presence of an object enters the human sensory apparatus. “Recognition,” by contrast, refers to the moment when that material presence becomes understood as something identifiable. Recognition shaped by habit often occurs almost automatically, yet when an object is unfamiliar, it takes time before recognition emerges. What kind of temporal flow exists between perception and recognition? Since this occurs prior to the recognition of an object, we can only imagine and speculate about the processes taking place within this interval.

3) The recognition of pure materiality is subject to “interference”

 For perception to transition into recognition, a framework of interpretation must be mobilized. Such frameworks are habitually or intentionally recalled from past memories. Although colors continuously differentiate according to the angle of light, we tend to consolidate them into familiar categories such as white, red, or blue. This tendency reveals how learned frameworks—fragments of experience and memory—intervene in the perception of pure materiality.

 If we describe an unfamiliar pale hue simply as “white,” the moment of pure material perception has already undergone a process of temporal interference before arriving at recognition. This interval possesses a different “thickness of time” for each living being and does not correspond to the evenly divided units of time constructed by humans. Within this thickness of time, memories from the past and images of pure materiality intertwine, repeatedly generating, dissolving, and mutating through continuous fluctuations before eventually emerging beyond it.

 Fragments of memory that escape this “thickness of time” are once again placed upon its surface, becoming new forms of memory. This process constitutes the interference occurring within the domain between perception and recognition—a domain that may also be understood as a field of energetic forces.