REVERIE.
Minimal design isn’t emptiness; it’s clarity, intention, and the reduction of noise to amplify what truly matters.
Category:
Visual Arts
Author:
INKENITO
Read:
7-14 Mins
Location:
Auckland, NZ
Date:
Jun 14, 2025
In reverie, form dissolves. Neither portrait nor painting, but something dreamt in between.
Reverie unsettles the boundaries of art. In these works, figures emerge but never fully arrive; half-portrait, half-phantom, suspended between mediums. The familiar dissolves into the strange: what seems drawn might be painted, what seems miniature expands into monument. INKENITO does not offer definitions, only thresholds, where images hover in a liminal state. To gaze upon them is to drift, as in a dream caught between recognition and unknowing, between the seen and the imagined. - INKENITO 2025
Between the frames, silence lingers. A moment without anchor, where meaning slips away.
The spark of a cigarette becomes spectacle. A quiet gesture, suspended between habit and wonder.
What you see is never the whole. Every shadow conceals, E - frame distorts, E - city holds its secrets.
In Reverie, the portrait blurred into dream. In Drift, the spark held us still. Now, in Obscura, the city itself fractures s t r e e t s , s t r a n g e r s , s i l h o u e t t e s each one transformed by the act of seeing. But what is seen is never innocent. A silhouette becomes a secret. A waiting figure becomes fashion. A road becomes a stage. LIES, ILLUSIONS, VEILS they were never confined to images. They live in the eyes of the beholder. And perhaps, without you knowing, they live in the images of you. - INKENITO 2025
