On emptiness

On Emptiness: To Walk Between Candle and Flame is a body of work that reflects on the space between thought and word — the moment before something becomes something. It is about the pause before speaking, the hesitation before writing, the silence before sound, the darkness before flame. A space that is not empty in the sense of absence, but empty in the sense of potential.

This body of work begins from the idea that meaning does not live only in words, but in the distance between them. Not in the mark, but in the moment before the mark is made. It is in this in-between state — between intention and action, presence and disappearance, form and formlessness — that the work exists.

The works are not attempts to write language, but to reach the place where language has not yet formed. Where thought is still fluid, undefined, and unstable. A place where emotion exists before it becomes readable, where a line is not yet a letter, and a gesture is not yet a word.

Emptiness here is not a void, but a beginning. Not silence, but a field of listening. Not nothingness, but a space where everything is still possible.

To walk between candle and flame is to walk in a state of becoming — where things are neither fully formed nor completely gone. Where meaning is always arriving and always leaving at the same time.

This body of work is an attempt to stay in that space for a little longer.