Elements of Being

What makes human beings—and this world—exist?
My work begins in dialogue with this question, one that never settles, one that continues to shape both form and urgency.

Existence is not a single substance. It is a layered process, continually formed where thought, body, and art converge. Conscious life binds us to the world through reflection. Embodied action leaves its weight through rhythm and gesture. Artistic presence arises in their meeting, another way of being.

Awareness persists as fracture and renewal, each question returning in a different guise. What seems resolved unsettles again; what seems stable turns uncertain. In this repetition, consciousness discovers its own texture, a pattern that sustains yet unsettles me.

The body responds where thought falters. Breath breaks rhythm, the hand hesitates, gestures repeat what cannot be resolved. These movements carve traces in time—marks that echo thought yet also open another beginning.

Artistic presence emerges from this crossing. It is not the sum of mind and body, but the tension between them. A work is not an outcome, but an encounter: question entangled with response, figure sliding into ground, center receding into margin. Meaning arises not from resolution but from exchange.

The layers of existence shift, yet continuity remains. What appears as rupture carries an unseen thread; what trembles with uncertainty still bears essence in another form. Art moves within this tension—between change and persistence. It offers no final answer. It serves instead as a passage, a conduit through which essence discloses itself.

Art is always an unfinished response. It does not explain existence. It appears only in the trajectories of questions, in the traces they leave. And within incompleteness, essence shows itself with greater clarity.