RELIC OF THE SILVER SENTINEL

Mix media on canvas. 2023 90 X 1.20 CM. Collection: BEFORE THE SHARD Relic No. BTS V.O 4 Energetic Function: To activate the watcher within—awakening silent perception and aligning the viewer to the presence of unseen intelligence. This relic holds space for deep internal sentience. Symbolic Role: A relic of proto-consciousness: this piece represents the stage before identity crystallizes, when sacred guardianship exists but has not yet spoken its name. -FINALIST ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI 2023. Relic of the Silver Sentinel stands at the threshold between chaos and cognition—a visual vortex where mirrored triangulation, molten silver flow, and biomorphic forms converge into a fractured consciousness. Here, the sacred is still undeciphered, but its presence is undeniable. This relic expands both materially and neurologically: the reflective tessellations disorient spatial logic, while the embedded sculptural forms invoke a watchful intelligence—sentinel-like and silent. The work resists linguistic closure. It suggests an entity present but unnamed, initiating an energetic transaction with the viewer that bypasses narrative and enters into primal recognition. From a neuroscientific perspective, the painting engages the brain’s predictive coding system—setting up patterns (mirrors, symmetry, repetition) and then violently disrupting them through organic, unreadable flows. The result is a state of aesthetic “cognitive dissonance” that rewires visual pathways, forcing the mind to search for unfamiliar meaning. This is dimensional neuro-art: destabilizing the old programs to awaken the new. CURATORIAL COMMENTARY by Dong-hyun Yoon, Archive for Trans-Contextual Inquiry, ATI Seoul/Berlin.