Pratītyasamutpāda-Śūnyatā / Śūnyatā-Bhūta-Pratibhāsa
缘起性空 / 真空妙有

All things do not exist by themselves;
they appear only through the gathering and dispersing of countless conditions.
Light, air, temperature, dust, the cavity of space, time, and the act of looking—
when they coincide for a brief moment, an image comes into being;
when any one of them withdraws, the form dissolves.
Everything arises through conditions, and fades through their cessation.

No single element determines the image.
It takes shape only within the interdependence of conditions.
No beam of light, no vibration, no misted surface “creates” the form—
they serve as one another’s causes, completing each other,
and therefore, appearance becomes possible.
The form is not manufactured; it is a temporary convergence.

Emptiness is not a background; it is the event of happening itself.

If consciousness is understood as a frequency,
the world ceases to be a collection of objects
and becomes a field of interpenetrating, overlapping, and resonating energies.
Within these unseen layers,
reality is perceived, named, misread, distorted, and at times, healed.

Light is no longer merely illumination, but a malleable material;
frequency is no longer an abstract number, but a density capable of leaving traces;
space is no longer a container, but a cavity exquisitely sensitive to vibration.

What is unseen possesses more structure than what is visible.

In a darkened space stripped of ordinary reference,
light enters, refracts, scatters, and slowly settles upon a misted surface.
The micro-vibrations of air, the drift of dust,
the almost imperceptible curvature of the plane—
all become carriers of frequency.

Consciousness is frequency; an image is the residue of that frequency.
Refraction of light, trembling of water, drifting particulates,
the subtle shiver of glass—
these minute behaviors gather in a single moment
and give rise to a figure suspended in the dark.

The central luminous zone resembles the origin point of consciousness;
the surrounding arc traces the echo of energy moving through space;
the upper and lower darknesses correspond to unmanifest layers—
those regions untouched by language, identity, or memory.
Boundaries are deliberately softened,
keeping the form in a precarious balance between appearing and dissolving.

The image flashes briefly in the dark,
completing the arising of consciousness—
a trace left by a passing frequency.

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Photography Series
2014