being-states

This work emerges from the collision between analog and digital worlds—a philosophical investigation into the sudden, overwhelming sensation of existence that strikes in waves. What does it feel like to truly be? At what moment does consciousness recognize its own presence?

Rather than executing a physical intervention in the forest, I chose to simulate this ethereal encounter through digital means. The work begins with analog photography: walking into the woods with a bulky medium format camera, finding a frame between trees that called for intervention. Instead of hanging real materials, I introduced this digital object through 3D simulation in Blender—then brought it back into the analog realm through traditional darkroom printing and silkscreen integration. While a physical print (50x60cm) exists as part of the artist's studio practice, this NFT represents the digital iteration of the work.

This technical collision mirrors the phenomenological question at the work's core: the hyperreal quality of existential awareness that seems to arrive from another dimension of experience—beyond ordinary perception. The digital intrusion into analog space reflects how consciousness suddenly breaks through the everyday, making us acutely aware of our being-in-the-world.

Part of an ongoing series investigating these recurring waves of existential recognition, each work captures a different moment when the question "How does it feel to exist?" pierces through the mundane. This hybrid methodology—analog capture, digital intervention, analog output—creates artifacts that exist simultaneously across material and virtual realms.