a S P E C T R A project:

C H A O S

Fig. 1: CHAOS triptych as exhibited in ORDER(chaos), SHIVERS (VIC, Australia).
image 1 by Alana Aphoy
image 2 by Grey dear

Fig. 2: CHAOS triptych (details, low res, looped), 2025.

The sun is that through — and against — which things become known.

Through its direct and unmediated experience it defines

  • roundness,

  • cycles,

  • orientation,

  • living, and

  • light.

It is at once the critical substrate for apprehension, and always beyond it.

brighter than bright, and always in tremors.

… the Garden of Forking Paths is an incomplete, but not false, image of the universe …

CHAOS is a work of phenomenal reductions, observation, and sensitivity to difference ( information ).

It presents three synthetic visions of the sun: one whole, one hollow, one absent.
Each, in turn, perturbs ( subtracts from ) one another through obseration in series.

This work is about looking at looking; rendering experience into experience; perceiving yourself having perceptions.

CHAOS is held in both graceful languor and violent tremors.

Staring at the sun — letting it burn into your eye — is encouraged.