The nongram is a construct, an artist’s vision or dream, capturing emptiness in its various stages. A shadow of the artist’s construct — an idea’s shadow. The play of light on the geometry of elements blocking the full light flux from exposing the matrix. The nongram is not reality, sometimes constructed to represent reality — it can never be.

The collection or assemblage of objects used to create the nongram are separated, dispersed, lost, consumed,… only the two-dimensional representation of their shadow remains. A transient existence. The nongram is a shadow of a temporary arrangement of ideas modifying the transmission of light.

The nongram represents a record of a transient light experience — like a flash of lightning, which will never be of the same shape, position, or intensity again. Or if it should happen, then the lightscape will have changed between flashes.

The nongram then can be considered the “intersection of nonphysical objects — idea and light" .

Vilim Flusser in "Towards a Philosophy of Photography" states, " If one wishes to deepen the significance, i.e. to reconstruct the abstracted dimensions, one has to allow one's gaze to wander over the surface feeling the way as one goes. This wandering is called "scanning". In doing so, one's gaze follows a complex path found on the one hand by the structure of the image and on the other by the observer's intensions."

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