The contemporary impulse to archive nature into the "Cloud" creates a paradox: we preserve the image but lose the weight. Blackened Forest is an act of resistance against this "Digital Vanitas."
The subject is Mount Kora, a site layering 1,600 years of spiritual history. By rejecting the blinding "white" of the monitor (RGB) and embracing the saturated "black" of matter (CMY), these works achieve the "Death of Data"—a singularity of memory too dense for any screen to render.
Sedimented onto Kyokushi (Japanese Bureaucratic Bond), the image transforms from a photograph into a physical "Monument," reclaiming the gravity of absence in a world dissolving into symbols.
