IMAGES OF EMPTINESS

2026/2025


This conceptual installation offers a profound interrogation of identity, dismantling the myth of the fixed self through the ancient lens of "anatta" - "the non-self" - a Buddhist doctrine that has never felt more urgent than in our age of digital avatars, algorithmic identities, and endless performativity.
What emerges is not revelation, but rupture: a series of ceramic masks crafted in mixed media - archaic in form, yet vibrating with contemporary psychic resonance. They stand as cultural artifacts excavated from a future past, at once ritual objects and psychological interfaces. Their hollow eyes lock onto yours to echo back your own constructedness.

Rooted in the radical wisdom of the "Heart Sutra" - where form is emptiness and emptiness is form - this work "enacts" philosophy.

We no longer live one life - we stream selves like content. Identities splinter into versions: IRL/URL persona/editable essence/brand/ghost avatar... And yet beneath this cascade, something persists: awareness itself.

That's what this installation awakens. "Who am I when roles fade?"

This is a necessary moment of pause in our shared pursuit of understanding ourselves in the digital age.