PRESENCE
First, there is something.
A place, an image, a certainty. Something recognizable provides the stable point from which the work begins.
PROCESS
Every VANISHED work begins with something that is present. The work takes shape through its removal.
SUBTRACTION
Then something is removed.
The intervention does not add another image or another object. It takes something away from what was already there.
ABSENCE
The missing part becomes invisible.
What has disappeared is no longer represented. Its absence becomes the central event of the work.
RESPONSE
The viewer completes the event.
The mind encounters an image that no longer corresponds to what it expects. What happens next belongs to the viewer.
VANISHED does not create meaning by adding something to reality. It creates a disturbance by taking something away.
The structure is deliberately simple. The complexity is left to the mind that encounters the result. The same principle may lead to different works, different territories and, over time, different forms of disappearance.