What the Surface Forgets

WHAT THE SURFACE FORGETS

What the Surface Forgets is a series that emerges from the permeable relationships between dreams, the unconscious, mythology, the body, and the material world. An image appearing in a dream, a bodily experience, an ancient narrative, or an object encountered in everyday life cease to function as separate sources, becoming instead parts of a shared conceptual field.

Rather than approaching the unconscious as an enclosed territory to be deciphered, the series considers it as a fluid structure that continuously shifts form and makes itself visible through different means. Personal imagery encounters mythological narratives, past experiences intersect with bodily traces, and the internal meets the surfaces of the material world. Descent, thresholds, fragmentation, disorientation, transformation, and re-emergence recur across the works as movements rather than fixed symbols.

For this reason, What the Surface Forgets is not bound to a single material, technique, or visual language. Painting, photography, printmaking, drawing, and ink; wood, ceramics, glass, mirrors, water, metal, textiles, found objects, and natural or organic materials; moving image, animation, sound, video editing, digital image manipulation, and artificial intelligence all intersect within the same field of production. From digital tools such as Photoshop to traditional tools such as brush and ink, and from images generated or transformed through artificial intelligence to materials that are physically broken, eroded, submerged, or reassembled, no fixed hierarchy is established between different modes of making. Technique and material do not serve a predetermined style; instead, they shift according to the particular demands of each work.

The movement between these different tools and processes is itself part of the conceptual structure of the series. The digital may become physical, the natural may become artificial, an image may become an object, and an object may return to the realm of the image. Fracture, reflection, erosion, blurring, layering, repetition, and dissolution operate not merely as formal interventions, but as ways of exploring the relationship between what is visible and what continues to exist beneath it.

At the center of the series lies the boundary between surface and depth. Here, the surface is not simply a layer that conceals, but a threshold where forgetting, transformation, and remembering take place. What remains beneath is not understood as an immutable truth waiting to be uncovered, but as a shifting field capable of assuming a different form with each encounter.

What the Surface Forgets does not attempt to fully reveal the invisible. It traces the fleeting moments in which the invisible becomes visible.