Unit 017 — Catharsis

Acquisition by private inquiry only.

Available for private collections, curatorial projects, and museum installations.

For acquisition inquiries, please contact Wiciya.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

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 a field in which catharsis can be encountered through attention, presence, and real material action.

The field carries tension, silence, rupture, distance, loss, and discovery, but these states are not illustrated. They remain active within the field, where each bead becomes part of a larger movement of attention, searching, and revealed light.

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

Small beads are sewn by hand into the canvas and dispersed across the surface with extreme restraint. Each bead is a separate act within the field. Together, they do not build an image in the traditional sense; they create a path of attention that the eye begins to follow.

As the viewer moves from one bead to another, seeing becomes slower, more alert, and more embodied. The eye searches, loses the path, finds another point, and continues. Through this movement across the field, tension accumulates and gradually moves toward release.

The purpose determines the restraint. The distance between the beads, their small scale, their near invisibility, and their placement across the surface all serve the movement toward catharsis.

The Unit passes through pressure, interruption, and uncertainty, but it does not collapse into disorder. Instead, it leads toward catharsis—not as spectacle or excess, but as purification through concentration.

Because the beads are extremely small and nearly imperceptible, photography cannot fully convey their presence. Their effect appears most clearly through direct encounter, in real space and shifting light, where the viewer must search, lose, and find again. It is there that the field reveals its full emotional and perceptual force.

The field is not emptiness. It is a charged surface—a place where attention is tested, light is revealed, and presence opens through the act.

Catharsis is not depicted here. It is entered through the Unit.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

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