By transforming the technical figurative image into an abstract image, it presents the essence and visual reconstruction of a single image.
The Essence of Images and Abstract Transition: Images captured by a camera are created through digital manipulation. By using extreme effects, the form and color of the initial conceptual image are stripped away. The image is left with the minimal perceivable visual information, granted openness at the boundary of optical information, and recognized as abstract. The pixels, the smallest units of remaining digital information, come to possess reassigned positions, colors, luminance, alpha values, and visual error information such as artifacts, noise, glitches, and clipping. Repeating this process, tracing visual beauty.

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An image can be perceived as the occurrence, progression, and extinction of an event. Although the captured image was a result of the event, through the refinement process, the result is reconstructed. This series is a record and observation of the visual extinction of digital images that occurs during repeatedly editing, compressing, and resaving the original image.

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kingdom
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machine
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division
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collapse
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collapse
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horns
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© Park Sungmin, 2025