Nyll Axis

Nyll Axis | Divided Attention

Your practice revolves around erasure and removing narrative. What first drew you to absence as a creative method?

It began with an awareness of finitude — the sense of emptiness, the absence of everything. I was looking for a way to interact with these sensations, searching for the tools through which I could approach them. The search revealed itself to be endless, and the tools turned out to be visual art.

In your series, perception appears fragmented — almost interrupted. How do you define the moment when perception becomes division?

Perception is already an act of separation — the emergence of a perceiver and the perceived. I can only work with the moment when this fact becomes most acute. At that point, the visual elements of the painting and the act of perception-as-division converge into a single event.

Nyll Axis | Divided Attention

The figures feel both human and architectural. What attracts you to merging body, structure, and space?

Structure is integral to perception. The body and the psyche can both be understood as structures, and the architectures we build arise from the same spatial cognition. These elements carry, for me, simultaneous aesthetic and structural significance.

You describe perception as the birth of separation. Do you see art as a way of returning to unity?

If perception is division, then non-perception is non-separation — the return to unity. These form the two poles within which human consciousness unfolds. Art, for me, is a way to create a temporary equilibrium between them, each work a different iteration of that balance.

Nyll Axis | Divided Attention

Conflict is described as “the densest form of separation.” How does this idea manifest visually in the series?

Through the two separated male figures and through visual cues that echo the architecture and symbolism of the Roman Empire.

What changes in you — perceptually or emotionally — while creating these divided forms?

At a certain point, the forms align into a structure that carries a sense of minimalist order. That alignment signals completion. It provides a brief illusion of control before the next descent into emptiness and unstructured multiplicity.

Nyll Axis | Divided Attention

If perception is always fragmented, what does wholeness mean to you as an artist?

When absolute integrity appears, there is no one left to register it. As long as I exist as a perceiver, I encounter only its echoes — signals from infinity. But those signals are what sustain the entire process.