ARTIST’S NOTE | 13
Transformative Experience
2018-2025
Transform always precedes conscious detection. It is not a decision or an event, but the manner in which consciousness renews and recalibrates itself. Even a slight disruption in the flow of time is instantly registered by the senses. In the density of air and light, the rhythm of a stride, the cadence of breath—the world is already quietly re-aligning. This transformation is not an external occurrence; it is a minute tuning where the internal algorithms of perception shift their own equilibrium.
Sensation is not an organ for receiving information. It is the interface where internal and external currents meet, a locus where the world momentarily loses resolution only to be restored at a new frequency. Perception is the process of this restoration itself. The reverberation of sound alters the structure of space; the reflection of light recalculates the distance of objects. Sensation is this self-operating circuit, and with every subtle oscillation of that circuit, I find myself at a different existential point than before.
Experience is not accumulation; it is the resetting of operational methodology. Novelty springs not from the addition of knowledge, but from the renewal of perception. Thought is less about retrieving images and more about the act of rearranging rhythm. When the familiar rules of recognition are momentarily suspended, the senses adjust themselves toward a new vector. External events are merely catalysts; true transformation occurs when the internal algorithmic premise of perception is rewritten. At that moment, I am not the subject undergoing the experience, but an interface resonating with the world, existing within a field where the experience re-arrays me.
Transformation is not a consequence of being, but the validation of life itself. Every life vibrates at a specific frequency, and life ceases the moment that vibration stops. To learn anew is not to acquire new content, but for sensation to transition to a different vibrational state. Within this shift, the center of awareness is displaced, and the texture of time is re-edited. Transformation does not destroy me. It merely recalibrates me, enabling the transition to the next rhythm.
Art is the arena where this process of transformation is made visible as structure. It does not replicate the world. Sometimes it follows the world’s patterns, and sometimes it deviates from its calculus. Within it, I cease to be an observer of the world; I become a being that is self-tuned by the reactions of form and time, sound and color. Art is not representation; it is a structure of operation, a mechanism designed to readjust sense, time, and space. There, the world is not an object, but a single vibration in which resonance is materialized.
Ultimately, life is not a static completed state but a transformative system. It does not cease; it relentlessly re-calculates itself. This process of transformation exists by prioritizing rhythm and resonance through the sensory interface, by editing the non-linear texture of time, and by renewing the internal algorithm. Resonance precedes understanding, and rhythm precedes logic. As the subtle shifts of sensation coalesce into a single frequency, I return to the world’s operative structure. Life does not stop. It is the eternal transformation that sustains itself by continually self-tuning to a different rhythm.
Note
The term 'Transformative Experience' is widely known through the philosophical discussion by L. A. Paul, but the core meaning of the phrase—the fundamental restructuring of the self through experience—became a highly practical and essential concept for me. Beyond simple knowledge expansion or fleeting emotion, the significance of development and transformation through experience constitutes both my personal disposition and my intrinsic approach to art. I sought to reinterpret this concept by expanding it from the layer of individual, existential realization to the problem of artistic structure and operational methodology. Here, change is not an external incident but a systemic process through which consciousness takes form, and my art serves as the language that visualizes this very process of transformation.