ARTIST’S NOTE | 10
Vision & Perception
2018 노트에서 발췌
Seeing begins at the surface of sensation, yet it always ends within the structure of perception. The eye is not merely an organ that receives the world, but a principle through which the world is continually reorganized. I do not simply see the world; I experience how my inner self arranges and interprets it, reshaping what appears before me.
Where the gaze lingers, form begins to emerge. Light follows the contour of thought, and color folds into the rhythm of awareness. Sensation is never passive—it anticipates reflection. To see is to think, and within that movement, perception becomes a quiet act of construction. I trace the fragile moment when sensation turns into structure, when emotion finds its shape and enters the logic of form.
The world stands before me, yet the world I see is always remade within. Vision operates inside the framework of perception; to see is to reveal how I organize my understanding of the world. What I perceive reflects not the object itself, but the structure of my own comprehension. Seeing becomes a dialogue between being and the world, where the position of the “I” is never fixed but constantly shifting.
I do not trust in the completeness of sight. Each act of seeing leaves something behind, and that absence deepens the world. The partial view, the distance between what is seen and what escapes the eye—these spaces are what sustain perception. It is not wholeness but incompleteness that renews my sense of being. Seeing, then, is less about understanding than about feeling the fragile distance between the self and the world.
Vision is the rhythm that trembles between sensation and thought; perception is the trace that remains. The gaze moves between emotion and form, order and dissonance, leaving behind a path of quiet tension. Upon that path, I learn the world again. To see is to exist, and perception—the act of perceiving—is the most essential gesture through which existence becomes form.