A person is not depicted by the contours of the body.

When a person moves, the surrounding environment, such as the air, also moves. As long as people live, they continuously dissipate energy into the world and keep moving the surrounding environment. This artwork does not depict the material surface boundary of the person itself, but depicts the existence of a person through the energy that people continue to give to the world and the resulting movement of the environment.

The contours of life’s existence are not the surface boundary of the body, but something ambiguous that includes the environment that is continuous with the body. People continuously breathe, move, emit heat, vibrate the air, and dissipate energy into their surroundings. Being consists of the body and the environment that is continuous with it.

When viewers pass in front of the artwork, the viewers themselves also move the surrounding environment. This movement occurs in the same space as the space where the depicted person is. The movement of the depicted person and the movement of the viewer blend together within the same flow of energy, and the lines that depict the person are disrupted and change due to the movement of the viewer.

A portrait is not an image for looking at the depicted person from the outside, but becomes a continuous field where the depicted person and the viewer exist within the same environment.

Objects like stones continue to exist even if placed in a closed box, sealed off from the outside world. But life cannot maintain its existence in such a closed box. Life consumes external matter and energy as food and discharges it, maintaining its structure as the energy dissipates.

Life is like a vortex created in the ocean, an existence within a flow, and the boundaries of its existence are ambiguous, an existence within an infinite continuity.

To be alive is to constantly dissipate energy into the world and be continuous with the world, an open existence.