What remains of the self when the construct that makes it possible ceases to be invisible?" Prior to the Self: The self is not an origin. It is a construct that experiences itself as an origin as long as the construct remains invisible.
The constructs that make the self possible, the unity of body and mind, the passage between perception and feeling, the boundary between observer and observed, are not givens. They had a mechanism. A mechanism that works does not produce evidence of itself. It only becomes visible when it ceases to function. Not as a malfunction. As a revelation of what the architecture always was.
The systems of self-perception and self-preservation are the same system. That is the thesis that unites all the series. Confirmation is not an addition to perception, but its condition, and that condition can disappear while the recording remains intact. The instrument with which the mind seeks to know itself is part of what must remain hidden. In each work, the information arrives correctly. What's missing is the passage that transforms recording into experience, presence into inhabitation, knowledge into access.
The works are made from materials that set, harden, and bake. What is irreversibly fixed encloses the content, preventing later access. The material logic is not a metaphor. It is the thesis itself: fixation and inhabitation are structural opposites, and the self is always on the side of what must be inhabited. What the visitor recognises is not something strange. It is the very architecture of consciousness, momentarily made visible.