Minimal Information Maximizes Perception | VR
The work examines the tension between visibility and absence, between what is revealed and what the viewer must complete through perception. By deliberately reducing visual information and exposing only the area of overlap, the act of seeing becomes more active and interpretive. The less that is shown, the more perception sharpens; absence becomes a catalyst for sensory, intellectual, and emotional engagement.
Inspired by the stone from Melencolia I (1514), an engraving on a copper plate by Albrecht Dürer, I created a digital reconstruction based on two transparent squares moving along a random trajectory. The viewer perceives only the form emerging within their overlapping area, a shifting and evolving image that gradually approaches the state of a complete cube. Through VR technology, the work offers a sensory and intellectual experience that examines the tension between spirit and matter, between rational order and the limits of knowledge.
The two transparent squares symbolize spirit and matter, and their intersection, the shared space, is where the work itself comes into being: a zone of movement, tension, and possibility. The imagined completeness of the form occurs only when the two squares merge into a single cube, an image of a rare convergence between thought, sensation, and substance, in which a fleeting moment of understanding becomes visible.
Technique: Interactive digital reconstruction using VR technology.