Two Forces in the Void: Rockstar 7: Bam! and Chasing the Setting Sound (Float)

These two works exist inside the same language, yet they speak in completely different tones.

Both Rockstar 7: Bam! and Chasing the Setting Sound (Float) are built on my ongoing discipline of black — not as background, but as structure. Black is not the absence of image. It is the governing space that defines what is allowed to exist.

But what separates these two pieces is how the image behaves inside that void.

Chasing the Setting Sound (Float) — Emergence

In Chasing the Setting Sound (Float), the form feels discovered rather than declared. The image appears to be carried by the black, as if the void itself has allowed something to surface.

The edges are quiet.
The motion is continuous.
The energy flows without interruption.

This piece is about presence without force. It does not compete with the black — it respects it. The void remains dominant, and the form exists only by permission of that space. The result is meditative: a floating moment suspended in silence.

If there is a philosophy here, it is this:

The image does not claim space. It inhabits it.

Rockstar 7: Bam! — Impact

Rockstar 7: Bam! does the opposite.

Where Chasing the Setting Sound emerges, Bam! collides.

The motion is compressed.
The energy is concentrated.
Color does not drift — it strikes.

Here, the image no longer waits for space to accept it. It pushes outward, testing how much of the void it can occupy without breaking the discipline of black. The form still floats. The edges are still controlled. The black remains pure. But the relationship has shifted from harmony to tension.

This piece asks a different question:

How much energy can exist before the void must push back?

Same Language, Different Forces

What unites these two works is the same underlying architecture:

• Both reject the square as a governing container
• Both rely on pure black as a structural element
• Both treat form as something that must earn its presence

But their emotional physics are different.

Chasing the Setting Sound (Float) is continuous.
Rockstar 7: Bam! is punctuated.

One breathes.
The other strikes.

One suggests motion through time.
The other captures a moment of impact.

Why They Belong Together

Placed side by side, these pieces define the two poles of my current work:

• Emergence vs. Impact
• Permission vs. Assertion
• Silence vs. Compression

Neither is decorative. Neither uses black as negative space. In both, the void is active — shaping what exists by how much it refuses to yield.

If Chasing the Setting Sound (Float) is about how little can exist and still feel complete, then Rockstar 7: Bam! is about how much can exist before structure must assert itself.

They are not opposites.
They are the same philosophy under different pressure.

And that tension — between form that floats and form that collides — is where this body of work now lives.