Elements- Shape

Shape emerges at the moment when thought gains the density of sensation. It is the process through which reflection seeks structure and order within the world. I do not see shape as an outline or resemblance. It is the meeting ground of perception and consciousness, the way thought situates itself within reality.
 

Throughout the history of art, shape has moved along the boundary between essence and representation. For Plato, it was the manifestation of the ideal form — the unchanging order beyond sensory life. For Renaissance painters, shape became the language of harmony and proportion, a means of reconstructing the visible world. For Cézanne, it was a visual reasoning that probed the structure of nature itself. Picasso fragmented and reassembled reality through Cubism, expanding the language of perception. Brancusi pursued purity through reduction, believing that “simplicity is not an end in art, but we arrive at simplicity as we approach the true sense of things.” For Mondrian, shape symbolized universal equilibrium through geometric abstraction. Across these shifting languages, one question persists: How is being perceived, and how does it appear?
 

My understanding of shape begins from this question. Shape is both result and process — a field where thought and sensation continually recalibrate each other. Even when lines converge into form, the structure remains in flux, altered by time and gesture. Shape does not move toward completion. It trembles along the boundaries of life and death, emergence and dissolution, redrawing its contour through change. The shape that exists in the mind is only provisional; the one that appears in the world is rewritten with every act and perception.
 

Shape, to me, is a temporary structure of thought — a bridge toward the next act of perception. Within it, sensation finds direction and reflection seeks balance.  Shape lives within relation to it, breathing and transforming as a living structure. Through shape, I explore the boundary between myself and the world, finding self-awareness in the shifting space between them. Shape is thus my language for rewriting the world — a way for being to make itself visible.