ARTIST’S NOTE | 11
White Circle
2018 노트에서 발췌
White is not a color but a state before light scatters — a pause where sensation has yet to condense into form. Within it, nothing exists, yet everything rests in silence. I understand this “white” as the first breath of existence, the moment before the world takes shape. It is where perception and awareness are still undivided, where thought begins to stir alongside light.
The circle emerges from that stillness as the first movement. Its endless curvature traces the moment when existence begins to recognize itself — a structure where the center and the edge continually exchange places. I see in it a model of the world that is closed yet open, singular yet multiple, where human consciousness and the rhythm of the universe touch across the boundary between the finite and the infinite.
When white and circle meet, form is born from silence and dissolves back into it. Where color disappears, sensation becomes order, and order returns once more to sensation. Through that repetition, the world renews itself, and I explore how being comes to know itself within that circulation.
The forms of BYR Prime Elements and BYR OS originate from this white circle. My lines, shapes, and structures emerge and disperse upon this voided ground, only to return again. White contains all colors, and the circle revives them as the breath of form. To me, the White Circle is both beginning and return — the simplest structure through which existence affirms itself.