What Happens Next is Not Recorded

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What Happens Next is Not Recorded

What Happens Next Is Not Recorded begins with a tightly ordered field of repeated thread, held between paper and copper frame. Within this structure, two coordinates interrupt the field. They approach, separate, compress and open, but never fully resolve into one another.

The work is built through a system of predetermined points, yet its final form is produced through pressure. As hundreds of threads accumulate, the paper bows and pulls away from the frame. What appears from the front as a continuous surface becomes, from the side, a spatial negotiation between line, material and force.

The two coordinates operate in relation to one another without arriving at a fixed conclusion. At different points they draw close, pull apart, or appear to exchange positions. Their failure to meet is not a failure of the system, but the condition through which another form emerges.

The title "What Happens Next Is Not Recorded" leaves that condition unresolved. The system provides its structure, but not its conclusion.

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