BEING (Part IV of the Pentalogy "Tempus Fugit Poiesis: Lights being realized")

  • Dates
    2025 - 2025
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  • Topics Awards, Fine Art, Photobooks

Being Part IV of the Pentalogy "Tempus Fugit Poiesis: Lights Being Realized" The Pentalogy operates as a visual inquiry unfolding through five cosmological steps.

PROJECT STATEMENT - Tempus Fugit Poiesis: Lights Being Realized

Genesis of an Unconscious Process
The pentalogy Tempus Fugit Poiesis: Lights Being Realized emerged during an intensive two-month creative period between November and December 2025. The work is the result of an autodidactic and intuitive inquiry.

What remains most intriguing—even to myself—is that neither the conceptual depth nor the architectural structure of the pentalogy were pre-planned. Its internal order and cohesion only became apparent after all five volumes had been completed. In retrospect, the individual works and titles fell into place organically, forming a unified realization. The work, in essence, developed itself.

The Five Cosmological Steps
The pentalogy unfolds as a visual inquiry articulated in five stages, documenting a profound inner transformation:

TEMPUS FUGIT (The Inherited Structure)
An unconscious resistance to a rigid, antagonistic experience of time, characterized by repetition and fragmentation.

POÍESIS (The Intellectual Ideal)
The attempt to construct an elevated, dramatic life concept (the five-act structure, the Faustian impulse), whose internal contradictions render crisis inevitable.

LIGHTS (The Necessary Rupture)
A radical phenomenological reduction to essentials—light, shadow, and perception. The zero point of confrontation and transformation.

BEING (Structural Reorientation)
The discovery of universal patterns (fractals) as a connective grammar between inner and outer realities.

REALIZE (Completion)
The manifestation of insight: a conscious return to color and to the density of lived reality as an act of integration.

Note: The other titles submitted also to the PhMuseum Award 2026

This project is a candidate for PhMuseum 2026 Photography Grant

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Interconnectivity

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BEING (Part IV of the Pentalogy "Tempus Fugit Poiesis: Lights being realized") by Michael Hagen

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