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The Text Works series manipulates language by prying words loose from their traditional meanings and placing them in new contexts. Starting from a source text (Unborn_Null, 2018), the series explores themes such as trauma, perception, and psychological states. The text is continuously rearranged and reconfigured, making visible how meaning is constructed—and how it can also shift. What emerges is an abstract, fragmented narrative that invites the viewer to move with the fluidity of interpretation. The text functions simultaneously as a visual and conceptual medium, with an emphasis on inner struggle and the fractured nature of human experience. In these text works, language is approached as both material and action. Words appear as short, direct formulations that attempt to capture a bodily reaction or a movement of thought, yet they simultaneously lose their grip through repetition, displacement, and layering. The series investigates language as a compelling force that structures and shapes human experience: an attempt to understand and control physical and emotional responses. Texts from collections such as Unborn_Null are used to gain traction on raw, unformed experience. A specific component of the series is the use of rewritten and reordered public documents—such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN)—to emphasize how language produces worldviews and imposes structures. In essence, the series shows how language functions as a filter, a grid laid over reality: it makes knowledge possible, yet at the same time confines us within its own frameworks. In the opening verse of the Gospel of John (John 1:1) it reads: “In the beginning was the Word”—the word creates the world. That creative force is also limiting: what is named takes shape; what falls outside language remains difficult to perceive. In some works, the text is further processed through recording, repetition, and layering—layer upon layer—until language becomes unintelligible and meaning dissolves into sound, rhythm, and spatial resonance. What remains are signs, cries that refer to communication, yet function as an autonomous system of linguistic remnants: suggestive, insistent, and deliberately ambiguous.