Water as Structure

Water is not emotion.
Water is structure.

The pig dismantled the surface of civility.
The animal disrupted the semiotics of ethics.
Minhwa fixed emotion into ornamental form.
By introducing water into that surface, I reconfigured the structure of control as a language of leakage.

Water is the slowest mechanism by which the unspeakable pierces form.
Though it flows like emotion, it operates with greater structural precision.
It condenses as dew, falls as tears, and advances like a current.
But its direction does not point to nature
it returns to memory.

When water gathers, emotion sediments.
When water flows, structure erodes.
When water evaporates, unspoken pain saturates space.
This is not narrative.
It is a non-narrative device for inscribing feeling.

In my work, water is evidence.
Evidence of what is not said.
A fissure in what cannot be said.

I do not depict water.
I record the trajectory of rupture.
That rupture appears as boundary
a boundary that trembles between affect and control.
Its presence indicates that the trembling is still ongoing.
Its flow gradually reconfigures the structure of emotion.

Water behaves like emotion
but it is not merely emotional.
It dismantles existing structure
and simultaneously initiates the construction of another.

Do you engineer the flow
or do you submit to the structure it commands.