{"id":291,"date":"2026-07-20T22:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yasutakaseki.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=291"},"modified":"2026-09-19T02:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:55:23","slug":"on-the-absence-of-death","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/yasutakaseki.com\/?portfolio=on-the-absence-of-death&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"On the Absence of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Statement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mourning ordinarily presupposes death.<br>But what should we call this phenomenon in which death does not exist?<br>One day, all contact with a friend suddenly ceased.<br>Without even knowing whether they are alive, only traces of them continue to remain on my smartphone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This work is an attempt to construct a provisional form of mourning for this \u201cstate in which death cannot be established.\u201d<br>While accepting the absence of an ending, it retraces the act of giving one.<br>The image, disintegrating irreversibly, settles as a reverberation, like a past that can never be restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/yasutakaseki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/On-the-Absence-of-Death_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yasutakaseki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/On-the-Absence-of-Death_01.jpg 700w, https:\/\/yasutakaseki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/On-the-Absence-of-Death_01-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/yasutakaseki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/On-the-Absence-of-Death_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55\" 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