The End Point of a Dream
When the journey through
the dream comes to an end,
the traveler realizes he had been seeking what was lost.
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The city was stained red,
and even the planet,
waking from deep sleep,
took on that color.
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When crimson is born,
the secret rises with it.
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Exploring layered realities
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Conception was placed
into my hands
at the far end of deep sleep
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Fading memories are not gone.
After being overwritten,
they take on another form.
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Exploring layered realities
through digital collage.
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What waited there
was not salvation.
It was an intention
sheltered by the dark.
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Exploring layered realities
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Black art and African history continue to serve as a powerful duo. History and spiritual awakening are fuel for #Haitian American visual and performance artist Watson Mere during his new solo exhibition, “Watson Mere: The Forces,” at EFA Studios in NYC. #nycart #nycthingstodo #nycartist
Rendezvous
Only the distance not yet touched
binds the two with precision.
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The only one who remains
silent and still keeps their gaze knows the answer.
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Exploring layered realities
through digital collage.
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Invisible restraints go unnoticed by the person trapped in them, but to a third party, even their tentacles lie exposed.
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The city multiplying in consciousness
reveals its full form only to the one who stands at an eternal distance.
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Exploring layered realities
through digital collage.
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The one who watched
and the one being watched
were the same person.
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Exploring layered realities
through digital collage.
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The loss of self
had quietly begun
by another’s hand.
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in Japanese aesthetics.
Exploring layered realities
through digital collage.
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Color speaks to you.
Only you can read its words.
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Exploring layered realities
through digital collage.
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Once he noticed the contradiction, he touched the secret of the source that produced it.
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in Japanese aesthetics.
Fragments collide and
reconstruct new
fictional worlds.
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Stardust, 2026
Stardust, 2026
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Even after the mask is removed, the history of its wounds cannot
be shed.
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in Japanese aesthetics.
Traces of time accumulate
and reshape the visible world.
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At the end of the voyage,
only the fading afterimage of memory was waiting.
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in Japanese aesthetics.
Traces of time accumulate
and reshape the visible world.
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When facing death,
we are asked for the first time: Have we truly lived a meaningful span of time?
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Exploring layered realities
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Those who leave and those who arrive all bear the mark of death.
Only the overlapping gazes remained as proof of life.
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in Japanese aesthetics.
Traces of time accumulate
and reshape the visible world.
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An ego swallowed by numbers turns a human into an outline.
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Exploring layered realities
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When blue awakens
in a red world,
the colors do not merge;
they become another memory.
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in Japanese aesthetics.
Fragments collide and
reconstruct new
fictional worlds.
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The witness to that tear
could do nothing
but look up at the face of sorrow.
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Exploring layered realities
through digital collage.
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Among faces buried
in indifference,
only one eye remembered.
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Exploring layered realities
through digital collage.
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Polaroid photograph of a cheetah.
Cheetah, 2026
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Memory sinks into darkness
with time,
leaving only a faint outline,
or dissolves
into the blue of the sky.
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in Japanese aesthetics.
Traces of time accumulate
and reshape the visible world.
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When hope comes within reach, anxiety rises to its highest point.
New media art rooted
in Japanese aesthetics.
Fragments collide and
reconstruct new
fictional worlds.
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Inside the cube, history and memory are quietly worn down.
The true form of that box is the bondage of society.
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in Japanese aesthetics.
Traces of time accumulate
and reshape the visible world.
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The evening sky bestowed
a prophecy upon you.
That sky was born from
a fissure between layered
fragments of memory.
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in Japanese aesthetics.
Traces of time accumulate
and reshape the visible world.
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Even the one who eats
may also be the one being eaten.
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in Japanese aesthetics.
Exploring layered realities
through digital collage.
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