The title is a line by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad. This is the third work I’ve created inspired by this poem.

I must say something
I must say something
In the shivering moment at daybreak
When space blends with something strange
Like the portents of puberty
I want
To surrender to some revolt
I want
To pour down out of that vast cloud
I want
To say no no no.

The words in the work also recall the Three No’s from the Khartoum Resolution issued by the Arab League (Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, and Sudan) in 1967. It declared: “No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel.”
Perhaps there is a lesson about oppression here: the response must always come as a threefold rejection, corresponding to Lacan’s three registers—the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic. At the level of physical matter: no peace. At the level of pure language: no recognition. And at the symbolic level, where language takes material form: no negotiations.

See a work-in-progress video here and a video presentation here.

Perception is an interpretation and thus consists of language in the same manner as understanding words. To the mind, a word is always also an image. In that sense, understanding words function no differently than normal perception. When we see, images are constructed inside the mind. We never perceive reality objectively or in itself.
However, to use language, we have to speak or write it. We have to realise it. Nothing ever communicates without being inscribed into a matter of some sort. But how words are inserted into reality affects how we perceive them. Thus, reality itself seeps into language. There exists no clear or unmediated communication. Matter adds to the message. Because the matter we choose to communicate through and how we shape it reflects on who we are, it can reveal unconscious or hidden meanings.
 
Humans inscribed the first written words in stone or clay. One of the purposes was to save them for the future, to protect them from the volatility of time. To speak or to write is always, to some extent, an act of power. The receiver must initially submit their attention to the message. No matter how insignificant, its meaning will always, in some way, change the receiver forever.
 
There is a constant tension between language and reality as matter. The human subject is defined by an individual will, as opposed to the strict causality of nature. This will strive to be expressed through language. Maybe self-awareness is a result of language use. Language as a way for the ego to invent itself, to inscribe itself into the world. It is no coincidence that many of the first examples of texts are curses, prayers, laws, or inventories — different ways of trying to influence and master reality.

Res Ipsa is a compilation of works made by an act shaping the filler once it is prepared inside the frame. The works thus function as a recording device and give a statement of the event taking place while the filler was still wet.

Res Ipsa is Latin for "the thing itself" and is part of the juridical term "Res ipsa loquitur" (the thing speaks for itself), used when an injury or accident in itself clearly shows who is responsible, such as an instrument left inside a body after surgery.