Alexis Vasilikos

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   Leave the World Alone (2020)

   “While my pictures may be a cultural concept, the primary focus is on nature,” he said.
   “I want to decrease my work’s concept and emotion to convey just that. I want to decrease and reduce, to generate sheer emptiness.”— Park Seo-bo

   This series of works began with a simple note I wrote on an A4 sheet of paper a few years ago. The note said, “Leave the World Alone.” A few months later, I scanned it and began processing it in Photoshop. I don't remember why I wrote this message.

   All the images in this series are the result of manipulating the scanned note. Initially, I superimposed the lines of the letters until they resembled an asemic text. After that, I began to deconstruct the image; the lines turned into traces, signs of something erased, no longer visible. Finally, at the last stage of the process, no image remained, nothing to see, only a canvas-like texture, leaving the field of perception bare.

   The images became layers of emptiness with minimal information, and the process itself evolved into one of elimination, a journey into nothingness.