01 SUCHNESS

Experimental Design | Conceptual Research | Editorial Design | 3D Printing | Video Art

“Suchness” - things as they are. a Buddhist term referring to the nature of reality free from conceptual elaborations and the subject–object distinction. 

In the project I investigate the way we see things. Based on the assumption that comes from the Tao philosophy that we do not see the form in its emptiness, in its "suchness", and come sensory charged to the encounter with reality, I started from the image of a pile of prunings and throughout the project I dismantled it formatively to the point of losing meaning. I conducted experiments and examined the limits where the form remains recognizable and the loss of any meaning loaded within it.

The study is presented in the form of 4 chapters.
[Ch.1]; Decomposition into forms (scanning + cataloging).
[Ch.2]; Formal decomposition (material → digital). 
[Ch.3]; Disassembly of disassembly (digital→material→digital).
[Ch.4](video); in the physical world.

*This image is the starting point for all the visuals in the project.

Even on its own, the pile of pruning is a collection of
different, deconstructed shapes.

[Ch.1]; Decomposition into forms (scanning + cataloging).

"Deconstruction into Shapes [Ch.1] ;(Scanning + Cataloging): How We See Things. This chapter serves as an introduction, discussing how we approach forms before us with sensory biases, and therefore, we do not see things in their emptiness, in their suchness."

In this section, I let the computer deconstruct it formally; and then I looked at the image myself and described how I see/analyze the pile - my mind immediately categorizes it according to different types of plants. Shapes loaded with meaning."

[Ch.2]; Formal decomposition (material → digital). 

In this chapter and beyond, I will focus on formal deconstruction, on the loss of meanings embedded within us. I will conduct various experiments on digital deconstruction and examine the boundaries at which a form remains 'recognizable' versus the loss of all meaning contained within it."

[Ch.3]; Disassembly of disassembly (digital→material→digital).

"After focusing on formal deconstruction [Ch.2] in the digital dimension, in this one [Ch.3], I transferred the images created in previous chapters into the material dimension and then brought them back to the computer."

[Ch.4](video); in the physical world.

"In the previous chapter, I presented formal deconstruction [Ch.3]; the return of digital deconstructions to the physical dimension. In this chapter, I will explore the physical dimension [Ch.4]; in the space around me."

"This Dharma*
cannot be described.
Words fall silent before it."

*Natural law, truth.