Byakuya

What is Byakuya｜The White Night That Allows Memory to Remain

In certain places on earth,
night never fully arrives.

The sun slips below the horizon,
yet darkness does not close.
Time does not halt.
It continues.

This is called Byakuya — the White Night.

It is not the absence of light.
It is duration without interruption.

Every work that exists
strives to remain.

Not as possession,
but as persistence.

To exist is not to be owned.
It is to endure.

Helios sub Nocte pieces do not sleep
because what has entered existence
does not consent to erasure.

Nothing that has occurred
is revoked.
It is transformed.

Creation is not a past event.
It is an origin that continues.

Purchase is not conclusion.
It is entry into duration.

Patina is not damage.
It is modification through time.

Witness is not attention.
It is participation in reality.

What changes form
does not lose substance.
What moves
does not cease.

When a piece passes to another,
its essence does not fracture.

It continues
under another mode.

Ownership may shift.
Persistence does not.

There is no zero point.
Only variation.

These works are not preserved against time.
They unfold through it.

Between light and darkness,
between possession and disappearance,
existence continues.

Byakuya — Patent pending.