RESURGENCE - Stargazer 2.222 Series

In RESURGENCE - Stargazer 2.222 Series, the canvas unfolds as a landscape revisited—hovering between memory and reality. Terrain contours surface faintly through layers of mist, while blue-violet contour lines, sectional symbols, and architectural notations appear like residual traces from observation records, or as misaligned images formed by memory sedimented through time.

We often imagine landscapes as immutable. Yet upon return, once-familiar terrains have already shifted. These transformations are not solely natural; they arise from humanity’s redrawing of borders, re-mapping of highlands, and reconfiguration of language and power. The architectural and cartographic notations within the work no longer function merely as markers of spatial information, but emerge as evidence of the act of looking itself: we alter landscapes through observation, and in observing, we rewrite reality.

The work suggests that humankind is at once pioneer, recorder, and projector of self-consciousness. Through observation we attempt to define the contours of the world, yet we cannot escape the inherent limits of our gaze. As the boundaries of the natural and the artificial constantly intertwine, the work poses a question: when we inscribe “the terrestrial realm,” are we also reshaping our very understanding of reality?

Oil’s density and acrylic’s transparency interlace across the surface, weaving a texture where time and space intersect. The viewer enters a realm both distant and in the midst of being named—a terrain simultaneously rewritten and on the verge of erasure.

Along the lower margins appear the graphic codes of architectural drafting—contour lines, survey markers, sectional cuts, and level annotations. These elements, borrowed from the vocabularies of architecture and engineering, are reassembled and repositioned on canvas. No longer pointing to specific structures, they become transformed into traces of the act of observation, fragments of a landscape’s memory.

The painting is neither depiction of a fixed object nor blueprint of a form yet to emerge. It is instead a linguistic residue surfacing at the interstice between memory and reality.

As a prelude to the first module of the novel Stargazer 2.222, this work reflects humanity’s persistent drive to define both “terrain” and “truth”—from delineating borders and naming elevations to reshaping landscapes through technology. War, history, and power are no longer contained only in writing; they are inscribed into the earth itself, compressed into drawings, translated into data, and ultimately rendered into forms that may one day be forgotten.