When working with CO₂-stabilized materials (hereafter, CO₂ polymers), what I consider essential is that this substance is not merely a by-product of environmental technology, but a layered structure that inherently contains phase transitions.
The polymer responds to subtle fluctuations in external conditions—light, temperature, humidity—through surface and internal behaviors that unfold on different temporal scales.
This microscopic delay resonates deeply with the generative process of the image that is characteristic of my work.

In my practice, the emergence of phenomena can be understood through three principal layers:

1. The layer of optical fluctuation
Where reflection, refraction, and scattering interfere with one another, giving rise to the pre-linguistic motion of the image.

2. The layer of respiratory displacement
Where color and light acquire variable rhythms, and the image begins to establish itself as a coherent phase.

3. The material layer as depth
Where the image ultimately settles and shifts into a zone of stability and tangible presence.

CO₂ polymers contain the behaviors of these three layers within a single material body.
By responding to environmental fluctuations while simultaneously carrying optical, material, and temporal processes, they differ fundamentally from traditional pictorial media.
Rather than “depicting” the emergence of an image from the outside, the material computes the phenomenon internally.

Through this working process, my interest is directed not toward using matter as a simple medium, but toward the structural conditions that allow matter to generate phenomena.
Because the polymer holds within itself a record of environmental variation and its behavior is directly linked to the emergence of the image, material research naturally extends into an inquiry into how phenomena arise.

Thus, the investigation of this material is not a response to environmental technology,
but a continuous practice grounded in phenomenological and material-ontological questions—
namely, how phenomena come into being and how they become present as matter.