




Cosmos & Chaos
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The Cosmos & Chaos Series addresses the process by which society and the individual construct their position through ever-new contexts, employing a distinct mode of thought and production. In the series, traditional motifs exist as a "visual language" pointing to familiar modes of production, established orders, and the tools through which power makes itself visible. These motifs dissolve, transforming into geometric or organic abstract forms that reference the accelerating, fragmenting, and perpetually renewing process of the contemporary world. Even when viewed from a distance, it becomes clearly apparent that the old has been broken, and that power, language, and forms of representation have taken on a new shape, transforming into different forms.
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The works address the processes of "existing order – threshold / rupture – reconstitution" within a single composition. In the first phase, traditional motifs represent a fixed order; in the second phase, the threshold moment where form begins to dissolve while still remaining legible. In the third phase, dissolution does not remain mere dispersal but generates an entirely new order through a new rhythm. Thus the process moves beyond being a fixed explanation tied to a single reference. It transforms into a state that circulates on the surface, continuously reconstituted.
The production technique used in the works forms the foundation of what is being expressed. In the wet-on-wet technique, each drop of ink disperses according to its own flow. Each time, a new possibility, a new distribution emerges. My intervention is limited to establishing the ground and boundaries within which this flow will occur. The ink moves independently of my consciousness, yet can only exist within the boundaries I consciously draw. This dilemma stands alongside the questions that have come to the fore today with big data networks and artificial intelligence. Is production without consciousness possible? What are its limits?
In the works, each drop of ink behaves like an individual. The encounters and coming together of individuals construct the composition — that is, the "social whole." Yet it is impossible to foresee how they will evolve or what form they will take. For this reason, Cosmos & Chaos exists not only through the work as a whole, but also through the process of its creation.
