Pure Photography | Non-Objects
My new series of works has the concept Non-Object in its title. The somewhat bizarre concept of the „non-object“ is best understood by briefly recalling what we mean by the term ″object“: We perceive an object. An object fills space. An object has mass. We can see it. We can touch it. Some objects we can also hear or smell. And with the perception of an object we connect immediately a part of our everyday reality.
A non-object, on the other hand, fills no space, because a non-object has no mass. It is not tangible, it is soundless and odorless. The Non-Object is only a visual illusion. The eyes pick up a light pattern, its brightness and/or color distribution, and our brain compares this information with stored visual experience, making associations that we perceive as object-like illusions.
A non-object, on the other hand, fills no space, because a non-object has no mass. It is not tangible, it is soundless and odorless. The Non-Object is only a visual illusion. The eyes pick up a light pattern, its brightness and/or color distribution, and our brain compares this information with stored visual experience, making associations that we perceive as object-like illusions.
The concept of the Non-Object goes back to Ferreira Gullar's Theory of the Non-Object: Ferreira Gullar / "Teoriado Nao Objeto". In: Suppleento Dominical, Jonaldo Brasil, 19-20, 1959.
