Uncharted Destiny and Constant Magic

Uncharted Destiny and Constant Magic is an ongoing visual genealogical investigation.

I position myself as a fixed cosmic coordinate, using my birth date, 19891021, as the originpoint. From there I trace outward to those who have produced lasting disturbance in my life: family members, partners, childhood friends, and the psychoanalysts and project relations I encountered through An Individual as Society.

In this project, I use birth dates, moments of encounter, relationship astrology charts, painting, and archival numbering systems to construct a relational cartography of my own.

Individual natal charts are transformed into single circular paintings; synastry charts become overlapping structures between two or more subjects.

The works are titled to eliminate lyricism as far as possible, retaining only dates and numbers: birthdays, dates of encounter, family indices, or the moment a particular relationship began to disturb me.

They resemble astrological charts, but also criminal investigation boards, family genealogies, psychoanalytic notes, or some archive of fate that resists full decipherment.

I do not treat astrology as an answer, nor do I attempt to prove whether fate is real.

For me, astrology functions instead as a temporary visual language: it allows me to convert things that cannot be directly described—the pull within intimate relationships, the repetition within family structures, the body’s memory of others, the long-term consequences of certain encounters—into image systems that can be viewed, arranged, and compared.

This project extends the concerns I developed in Sumei and An Individual as Society around family, psychoanalysis, subject formation, and social relation.

But in Uncharted Destiny and Constant Magic, I am no longer only asking “how have I been shaped by others.” I have begun building a more active relational archive—attempting to see how these people form orbits around me, and how, at different moments, they have altered my position, my language, my desire, and my self-understanding.

“Uncharted destiny” points to those encounters I cannot control, yet which continue to change me.

“Constant magic” points to a recurring method of working: when lived experience cannot be held by ordinary narrative, I convert it into charts, numbers, paintings, astrological structures.

For me, magic is not an escape from reality, but a method of reorganizing it.