Post-Nut Clarity
賢者時間
賢者時間
Perhaps the so-called spiritual climax of art history
and the moment after bodily release
are movements within the same human structure.
One turns inward.
The other releases outward.
Fontana’s cut:
an inward passage,
imagination sanctified.
An outward release,
imagination concealed.
Within the same human structure,
they are essentially no different:
human imagination reaches climax,
and completes itself through emptiness.
37.0 x 25.0 (cm)
painting on canvas, napkins
2017
Post-Nut Clarity belongs to an ongoing inquiry into consciousness, void, and structure.
Lucio Fontana’s cut opened the canvas toward an irreversible void, an imagined spatial infinity. Initially a dynamic, singular disclosure, the gesture has been fixed by time into a preservable form, circulated, held, and stabilized through the structures of art history as an institutional image.
In this work, that stabilized form reappears not as a monument, but as an object of immediate use and equally immediate discard.
Two conditions are placed side by side. One is absorbed after its occurrence and preserved through the structures of art history. The other vanishes immediately after a high-intensity experience, leaving only a discardable remainder.
In this juxtaposition, a structural parallel emerges with the logic of the Heart Sutra, seeing the five aggregates as empty. After a peak, grasping loosens; emptiness appears and leaves no trace.
Through this arrangement, the experience of emptiness returns to bodily conditions. Gesture is absorbed into institutional form. Void is stabilized as a holdable dimension. Clarity is completed in the moment of its disappearance.
This is not critique but de-solidification. Emptiness becomes perceptible strictly through what is one-time.
Thus a cycle becomes visible. Within the juxtaposition of preservation and disappearance, spiritual action runs through the same human structure and completes its loop through emptiness.