CELESTIAL PHENOMENA

This series of multimedia paintings and drawings engages with evanescent astronomical events—eclipses, meteor radiants, stars, moonlight, and the moon as seen through fog or daylight. These are not depictions of fixed subjects, but inquiries into perception as an ecological and temporal practice: phenomena experienced in flux, shaped by shifting light, atmosphere, and time. Perception becomes a system—embodied, durational, and environmentally embedded.

Executed in natural indigo, pigment, urethane, micronized silver, silver leaf, and other reactive materials on aluminum and paper, the works use material not to illustrate but to generate experience. Their surfaces modulate ambient light, rendering luminosity both subject and structure.

The series extends an aesthetics of impermanence, aligning with mono no aware: the moon obscured by fog, starlight filtered through atmosphere, meteor showers emerging from radiant points. These events resist capture, and in doing so, affirm the beauty of the ephemeral.

Like Moon Almanac and Microseasons, Celestial Phenomena displaces anthropocentric time. The sky becomes an unfolding system of duration, matter, and perception—not described, but embodied.