I created this work by drawing concentric lines radiating from the center toward the edges of the panel. The lines create an illusory perspective, suggesting movement inward. However, because my drawing tool has a fixed width, the spaces between the lines gradually diminish as they approach the center, converging not into a single point, but into an undefined dark shape. This effect is also influenced by the properties of the filler material I use.

Human perception has a limited resolution. We cannot perceive objects below a certain scale or beyond a certain distance. Our experience is bounded by thresholds, and although technology can extend these limits, they still define the subject’s relationship to the material world. The apparent solidity and finiteness of external reality depend upon an exception: subconsciously, we recognize that we are alienated from the total truth of reality.

In fact, perception itself is a hallucination constructed by the mind—continuously adjusted by incoming sensory data, yet still a fabrication, a product of language. The illusion of semantic coherence is most convincing at the center of our attention. In this sense, it almost completely obscures material reality.

Yet what remains hidden may not be the true state of things, but rather the point at which language loses its capacity to describe them. At certain magnitudes—both extremely small and extremely large relative to our perspective—boundaries dissolve. And without boundaries, without the conditions necessary for distinction, language ceases to function.

Work in progress video | Presentation video

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.