01 Corpus of Research & Doctrine

This collection brings together critical and reflective writings that examine the aesthetic and ethical conditions of artistic experience. It bridges theory and encounter, situating art criticism as a form of research into perception, presence, and responsibility within contemporary visual culture.

01 Sep 2025 3 min read

Duchamp Made The First Cut: This Is The Second. And It Bleeds Different.

A radical reframing of Duchamp’s legacy through the lens of Post-Interpretive Criticism. This essay examines the second cut—not conceptual, but custodial. It bleeds different.

01 Sep 2025 4 min read

Absential Aesthetics Theory: On Ghosts, Absence, and the Afterlife of Art

Absential Aesthetics Theory begins with a radical proposition: that what is missing in a work of art can speak louder than what is present. Absence isn’t a void to be filled, but a substance in itself. It has texture, temperature, ethical consequence.

01 Sep 2025 4 min read

Theory of Aesthetic Displacement

The Theory of Aesthetic Displacement is not metaphor. It’s movement.It’s the internal migration of the viewer from one state of self to another. Subtle or severe.

01 Sep 2025 5 min read

Message Transfer Theory (MTT): A Treatise on the Reversal of Meaning, the Displacement of Intent, and the Object as Conduit

Message Transfer Theory, by contrast, elevates the act of transmission itself as the core event, not the object, not the artist, and not even the interpretation.

01 Sep 2025 8 min read

The Viewer as Evidence: A Treatise on Witness, Residue, and Critical Consequence

Here, the viewer is not a passive recipient, but a vessel of consequence. They don’t stand outside the work. They stand within its aftermath. And what happens to them: their pause, their breath, their silence, their refusal, becomes part of the work’s archive.