If media function as extensions of the senses (McLuhan, 1964), their overextension in the digital era produces sensory amputation, in which agency is diminished through unconscious automation. Reflection is increasingly collapsed into immediacy: “self-amputation,” McLuhan claims, “forbids self-recognition.” This project argues that recognition is not eliminated, but short-circuited.

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Engaging this condition through perceptual latency - the temporal lag between sensory stimulation and its conscious registration - this installation produces a structural distance in which self-observation and reflexivity emerge. Within this unconscious interval, the conditions of recognition are continuously reconstructed as nonpresent virtual potential, “never present in position, only ever in passing” (Massumi, 2002). 

Materializing through fog, projection, and translucent architectural surfaces, the installation creates an environment of optical instability and delayed apparition. In this mediation, recognition is no longer compressed into instantaneity, but suspended in indeterminacy before taking form.