The Presence of Absence

In this project, three deeply personal poems are transformed into immersive experiences through Braille cut-outs on paper, where language is no longer intended to be read with the eyes or touched by fingers, but to interact with light and shadow. Long, suspended sheets feature words as voids - absences that take shape only when illuminated - creating a dialogue between presence and absence. Light passing through the Braille dots casts delicate impressions on surrounding walls, evoking the intangible traces of memory, emotion, and experience.

The installation explores the materialization of what is emotionally invisible: a love that suffocates, a self dissolving under tension, and a relationship marked by what is unspoken or missing. By turning language into form and shadow, the work invites viewers to sense absence as a presence, to encounter the echoes of emotion that leave a mark without being explicitly expressed. This project reflects my ongoing exploration of the interplay between text, visual space, and the emotional resonance of light and transparency.

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