In 1988, Gilles Deleuze spoke through twenty-six words — one for each letter — each opening onto a field of philosophical concepts. In this series, I approach those same words visually rather than argumentatively.

The project consists of fewer than twenty groups of chemigrams, organized by visual affinity and titled after words from Deleuze’s L’Abécédaire. The titles are not captions. Each word carries a constellation of ideas, and the chemigrams do not illustrate them. Instead, they offer another mode of entry, grounded in material process, light, and chemical reaction.

The project began at Penumbra Foundation in 2025 and remains open. The encounter it proposes is not between viewer and image alone, but between title and image. It is a space where neither fully explains the other, and where meaning becomes an adventure shared between the work and whoever stands before it.