Unit 017 — Field
Catharsis
In this work, the field holds a balance between tension and silence, rupture and distance, loss and discovery.
It does not resolve these states through image.
It allows them to remain active — suspended within the surface, where each hand-sewn bead becomes part of a larger movement of attention.
At first, the work appears almost empty.
A warm matte field holds itself in stillness, resisting immediate readability.
Nothing declares itself. Nothing explains.
The image remains quiet. Yet the act continues.
Small beads are sewn by hand into the canvas, dispersed across the surface with extreme restraint.
They do not build an image in the traditional sense.
They create a condition of searching — where seeing becomes slower, more alert, more embodied.
The work moves through pressure, interruption, and uncertainty, but does not collapse into disorder.
Instead, it leads toward catharsis — not as spectacle, but as purification.
Not through excess, but through concentration.
Not through revelation, but through encounter.
Because the beads are extremely small and nearly imperceptible, photography cannot fully convey their presence.
Their effect emerges most clearly in direct encounter, in real space and shifting light, where the eye must search, lose, and find again.
It is there that the field reveals its full emotional and perceptual force.
Field is not emptiness.
It is a charged surface.
A place where attention is tested, and clarity appears.
Details
Unit 017 — Field
Catharsis
Acrylic on canvas, 16 hand-sewn glass beads
120 × 100 cm
2026
