The Rot takes place slowly and out of sight. It deteriorates from within while its exterior remains intact. Basic need, boundary, spirit, high hope, control. Belief is now packaged into a series of instructions and the promise of spiritual clarity is synonymous with a system that depends on continued dissatisfaction. Same acts each time, waiting for a different result. Pictures are truth, but a repeated image becomes unstable, dishonest. The act of looking itself has altered what is being seen. The same image appears repeatedly, but each version seems to promise a different way of seeing, that allows access to something beyond the visible. Meaning placed onto form becomes faith. Resemblance turned to recognition, recognition turned to truth. Seeing through this thing, Seeing this thing through.
Text by Marietta Mavrokordatou