Le Spleen de la Chair

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In exploring the threshold where sensation and consciousness intersect,

light and shadow act not merely as physical phenomena,

but as devices that illuminate the critical limit of perception,

revealing the very structure of self-recognition.

This work questions the conditions of “seeing”

and seeks to stand upon the boundary where perception becomes embodied.

 

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The “I” that speaks here is not a stable entity.

Rather, it is a linguistic construct—constantly replicated and transformed

within its relations to others.

The multilayered nature of shadow becomes a metaphor

for the fluidity of identity,

while the text itself embodies that very multiplicity of meaning.

 

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My sense of self takes contour through the gaze of the other,

yet it is quietly nurtured within a realm of unarticulated bodily awareness.

Division is not an endpoint but a condition for mutual permeation.

Two selves encounter one another only through distance.

They do not collide; instead, they constitute me

as waves that interfere and resonate within one another.

 

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In tracing the vestiges of presence that dwell within absence,

matter reveals itself as something destined to vanish—

its very disappearance paradoxically disclosing the truth of existence.

The tension between “substance” and “appearance” is embodied

through the stratum of dry-lacquer sculpture,

where a sense of mass precedes the visual,

and form stands in its own autonomy even as its interior is lost.