This artistic project, rooted in the Book of Genesis and the Decalogue, approaches the Bible not solely as a religious text, but primarily as a structural testimony to the emergence and evolution of human abstract thought. Employing abstract photography through the technique of light painting, the project seeks to visually translate the archetypal and universal ideas embedded within these two biblical cornerstones: the act of creation and the establishment of law.
The “Song of the Creator God” in Genesis is interpreted not merely as a cosmogony, but as a symbolic map of ordering reality. Each day of creation—light, water, vegetation, celestial bodies, animals, and humankind—represents successive stages in the conceptualization of abstract categories: from distinction and boundaries, through cycle and function, to relationship and identity. The abstract images, generated through light painting, do not attempt to literally illustrate these events, but rather to reveal their symbolic potential—light as a metaphor for consciousness, separation as the emergence of the self, and the creation of humankind as the appearance of the observer.
The notion of “Covenant,” as articulated in the Decalogue, is understood as the first formal attempt to codify universal ethical principles—not through force, but through the power of the idea. Each commandment is viewed as an abstract model of relationships: between the individual and the sacred, the self and the community, freedom and responsibility. Their contemporary interpretation—expressed through light and form—illustrates the tension between traditional conceptions of morality and its present-day transformations: desire, indifference, informational chaos, and the erosion of authority.
Both cycles represent an attempt to translate biblical narratives into a purely visual language, wherein light and its distortion become a form of alphabet. The project aligns with the emerging theory of “Conscious Abstraction”, which posits that abstraction can serve not only to express emotion, but also to communicate concepts and ideas with precision—including those pertaining to spirituality, religion, and ethics.
In this sense, the Bible is not merely a subject of interpretation, but a dialogical partner. The project does not illustrate it; rather, it continues its discourse in a new, visual language—one appropriate to an era in which symbols must once again be reinterpreted.