If nothing is all you see,
how do you know you are looking?
Finding the Edge of Nothing Inside a Closed Room
This image investigates what it means to see pure absence—where perception is denied contour, depth, and relief by an overwhelming presence of nothing. I wanted to show how the void, when rendered as a beige, sand-flat infinity, becomes oppressive and nauseating rather than calming. Here, I ask whether voids are more terrifying for their silent uniformity than for darkness, and let subtle shifts in texture and material become the only evidence something is present at all.
Cosmic Critic ▸
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