Concealment and Fiction
2025-#02
Using frames, grids, obstruction, and partial visibility as its main elements, the work explores the relationship between what is visible and what is invisible when the viewer’s gaze is restricted. When only part of an image or piece of information is shown, the reader naturally completes the unseen whole through experience, imagination, and inference. It is precisely within this process that visual displacement, misreading, and fiction begin to emerge.
This book does not attempt to present any single object in its entirety. Instead, through partial concealment, magnification of details, and division by frames and lines, it draws the reader’s attention to the fact that seeing is never a completely transparent act. We may believe that we are seeing the whole, yet in reality, we often construct an imagined totality from limited fragments.
The work consists of five small themes: Convergence to Rectangles, The Lies Beyond the Lattice, Shrinking Frames, Expanding Images, Misaligned Gaze, and A Vision Vanishing in Dazzling Light. These themes are developed in the form of observations and experimental records. Together, they point toward a shared question: when vision is controlled by frames and structures, does the “reality” we understand come from the object itself, or from the fiction that is continuously generated through the act of seeing?
Through the medium of the book, Concealment and Fiction invites readers to experience how vision is interrupted, and how new meanings emerge precisely at the point of interruption.
Through the medium of the book, Concealment and Fiction invites readers to experience how vision is interrupted, and how new meanings emerge precisely at the point of interruption.
2025
Design: okinahinto
Photography: L Ethan
120mm×240mm/182 pages
/Case-bound hardcover,sewn binding
Design: okinahinto
Photography: L Ethan
120mm×240mm/182 pages
/Case-bound hardcover,sewn binding