UNIT 017 — CATHARSIS

Available for acquisition.
Price upon request.

Priority is given to the acquisition of the collection as a whole.

For acquisition inquiries, please contact Wiciya.

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CATHARSIS

The purpose of this Unit is to guide the viewer toward catharsis through concentration, searching, tension, and release.

This Unit does not depict catharsis as an image. It creates the conditions in which catharsis may be encountered through attention, presence, and real material acts.

At first, the Unit appears almost empty. A warm matte Carrier holds itself in stillness and resists immediate readability. Nothing declares itself or explains what must be seen. The Carrier remains visually quiet, yet the action continues.

The beads are fixed to the Carrier one bead at a time and dispersed across it with extreme restraint. Each bead is a separate act. Together, they do not construct an image in the traditional sense. They create a path that the eye gradually begins to follow.

As attention moves from one bead to another, perception slows. The eye searches, loses the path, finds another point, and continues. What first appears uncertain gradually becomes a movement through tension toward release.

The restraint is essential to the purpose of the Unit. The distance between the beads, their near invisibility, and their precise placement invite sustained attention rather than immediate recognition. The viewer is not given an image to consume, but a path to enter.

Catharsis does not arise through spectacle or excess. It emerges through concentration. Searching becomes seeing. Tension becomes release. What seemed empty begins to reveal light.

Because the beads are extremely small, photography cannot fully convey the physical experience of this Unit. Its effect becomes most apparent in direct encounter, where changing light and embodied attention allow the movement of the work to unfold.

The Carrier is not empty. It holds a sequence of acts through which attention is tested, presence deepens, and light is revealed.

CATHARSIS is not shown.

It is entered through the Unit.

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DETAILS

Title: UNIT 017 — CATHARSIS

Collection: COLLECTION I — THE EMERGENCE OF PRESENCE

Year: 2026

Size: 120 × 100 cm

Technique: Bead Impact Art

Materials: canvas, acrylic paint, glass beads, needle, thread