The Blueprint of Emptiness — The Illusion of Completion
I will say one important thing first.
"100% Incomplete" and "100% Complete"
do not actually exist.
However, you can create a structure that looks like they do.
Let's compare them.
We will use the same theme:
The experience of being told, "There's no way such a person exists."
① 100% Complete Style (A text with a closed structure)
I was told, "There's no way such a person exists," by someone who should know me well.
Those words did not deny my potential, but rather showed the limits of the other person's imagination.
In that moment, I realized I had entrusted the outline of myself to another's understanding.
But not being understood is not the same as ceasing to exist.
It means existing in a form that does not yet have a name.
I decided to quietly accept that.
Characteristics:
• It has an argument
• The interpretation is made explicit
• It gives the reader an answer
• There is little white space
• It is stable
The reader finishes with an "I see."
② 100% Incomplete Style (A text with wide white space)
I was told, "There's no way such a person exists," by
someone who should know me well.
For a while, I couldn't say anything.
I thought, perhaps that's true.
But somewhere, I also thought it was wrong.
Beyond that, it hasn't yet become words.
Characteristics:
• It does not close the interpretation
• The reader creates the continuation
• There is no conclusion
• Unstable
• But a vibration remains
The reader is left with "..."
What is important here is
not which one is superior.
The complete type provides "understanding."
The incomplete type leaves behind "resonance."
Even text that looks 100% incomplete
is actually calculated.
The white space is not a coincidence, but a design.
That is why "an image stands even though it is empty."
③ Excessively Complete Style (Looks complete but is unnatural)
Example:
I was told, "There's no way such a person exists."
However, those words are a reproduction of socio-structural oppression,
and I see in them the limits of modern subject formation.
Therefore, this event is not an individual problem,
but one caused by the violence of the linguistic system.
This is "too closed off by theory."
④ Breathing Style (Seems closed, but is not)
I was told, "There's no way such a person exists," by
someone who should know me well.
Those words did not deny my existence.
It was just that, within the other person's world, my shape did not exist.
At that time, I
might not have been afraid of not being understood,
but rather afraid of being contained within understanding.
That is why even now,
I do not explain completely.
The moment I explain too much,
something becomes fixed.
Even so,
I am writing here.
Not so that I do not disappear,
but to confirm that I am still swaying.
I was told, "There's no way such a person exists," by
someone who should know me well.
Those words,
perhaps they denied me.
But,
perhaps what was denied was not me,
but the other person's world.
At that time, I
felt that I was more afraid of being contained within understanding
than of not being understood.
That is why even now,
I do not explain completely.
The moment I explain it all,
something somewhere stops.
Even so,
I am writing here.
Not so that I do not disappear, but
to confirm that I am still swaying.
I was told, "There is no such person."
That is why I
am still swaying.
What remained was
only a quiet consistency.
The shape that did not fit into understanding
is here.
It did not disappear.
Just that
is orderly.
What was denied was
not me,
but the outline of the world.
The swaying does not stop.
Only consistency remains.
It does not fit.
It is swaying.
It is orderly.
The swaying is
consistency.
It does not fit.
It is swaying.
It is orderly.
What remained at the end was
only a quiet consistency,
perhaps.