Unbecoming

Something inside the body crosses a threshold. Skin loosens.
Contours waver. What was once "I" begins to become something else.
This is not collapse.
It is transformation that never completes—a body in which blooming and decay occur simultaneously, held in form.

The series unfolds in three phases.
Bloom: excess generation forces the body open from within.
Seep: what had been held inside leaks out—quietly, irreversibly.
Smoulder: combustion that never surfaces, burning on without resolution.
Each phase is mid-transformation. None reaches completion.

The bodies that appear here cannot be identified as human, plant, or fungus.
The viewer attempts to determine what they are, and that determination fails, again and again.
A trace of a hand, the remnant of skin, mucus dripping toward the ground—fragments that testify to a former humanity persist, and it is precisely their persistence that suspends recognition without resolution.
That suspension is where these works live.

Gallery -> https://sensegraphia.jp/#/gallery/unbecoming-bloom-seep-smolder/bloom-1/

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