A Call to the Unformed,
The Informed, and the De-formed...
“There is no final shape, only gestures toward becoming.”
In the contemporary landscape, where the human psyche is fractured by the relentless static of the digital age and the intellect is often flattened by the weight of synthetic certainty, a singular movement of meaning emerges. This is not merely an intellectual stance, but a lived ritual, a running toward the essence of being. At the heart of this movement is a white flag. To the uninitiated, it may resemble surrender; to the perceiver, it is an act of radical sanctification. This flag represents the purification of perception, a deliberate neutrality carved out of an overstimulated era. It is the sacred pause, the luminous void between the arrival of a signal and the imposition of meaning.
The foundation of this path is a rigorous reconnection with the perennial stream, the understanding that beneath the shifting currents of history and the diverse metaphors of faith, there exists a singular, nameless knowing. This is a meta-modern retrieval: a recognition that the great narratives of humanity are not dead, but wounded. They require a new mode of engagement that transcends mere critical analysis, moving instead toward a mystical, meta-cognitive restoration. This is not a clinical endeavor; it is an aesthetic one. It is a therapy of symbols, where cognition is invited to breathe, and the rigid maps of the mind dissolve into the mirrors of the soul.
The architecture of this thought is built upon a profound integration of disparate traditions of wisdom. By weaving together the Ishrāqi (Illuminationist) tradition of Suhrawardi with the Kyoto School’s philosophy of Absolute Nothingness, a new grammar of coherence is formed. In this framework, the flag functions as the visual manifestation of the Zero-Point Manifold, the state of maximum informational potential before it is collapsed into the narrow confines of binary logic.
Here, the body remembers what language has forgotten. Every script, every symbol, and every rhythmic stride in the act of running becomes a fingerprint of a divine dispersion. Meaning is not something to be extracted or used; it is an emergent resonance that flickers into existence in the phenomenological dance between presence and interpretation. This work constitutes a resistance against the reductionism of the digital epoch, dissolving the artificial binaries between logic and mysticism, or aesthetics and psychology.
The practitioner of this path acts as a seeker-scientist, navigating the inner cartography of being with a compass of perennial wisdom. This orientation does not seek to measure territory or claim cognitive hegemony; rather, it aims for a perceptual liberation. It is an ontological commitment to the idea that being burns through every moment of witness. In this light, historical trauma, cultural contradictions, and personal disintegration are not merely obstacles; they are the raw informational fuel to be sublimated into a higher synthesis. No pain is left meaningless; every overload is a precursor to a new level of integration.
To run with a white flag in a post-truth world is an active transfiguration. It is a declaration that even within the brokenness of modern systems, beauty remains the primary evidence of the real. It asserts that before we are categorized as "users" of technology or subjects of a state, we are bearers of a primordial light, spun from a shared and ancient silence.
This project, encompassing drawings, rituals, and philosophical discourse, is ultimately an educational and philanthropic effort. It seeks to support a deeper understanding of the relationships between human communication, art, and the preservation of culture. It is an invitation to return to the state of the perceiver before becoming the thinker.
The rising of the white flag marks not the end of a journey, but the beginning of a return. It is a gesture of wonder in a world that has forgotten how to be still. It is the story of a movement that reminds us: in exile, there is home; in the void, there is fullness; and in the heart of the signal, there is a silence that connects us all.
The Apeiron of Sensation
Sub-title: Phase Coherence and the Pre-Conceptual Manifold
Medium:
Digital Collage Print on Glass / Mixed-Media Digital Alchemy
Dimensions:
Variable
Edition:
1/1 (Signed & Certified by Amir Noferesti and +i-v-i+ Foundation)
In Zero (0), we find the death of the Subject. By removing the center and the focal point, the artist forces the spectator to confront the Ontological Gap. The petals are Information Fuel, the raw 0s and 1s of the universe before they are compiled into a World. It is a portrait of the universe at t=0, where entropy is high not because of decay, but because of infinite potentiality. To look into the swirl is to witness the mind of the Creator (The Great Architect) before the first 'Let there be Light.
Mystigital Experience:
The Numinous series:
Title:
Eye of the Architect: The World Watches Itself
(L’Œil de l’Architecte : Le Monde se Regarde)
Year:
2025
Medium:
Digital Collage Print on Archival Paper / Mixed-Media Digital Alchemy
Dimensions:
Variable (Exhibition Print: 100 × 100 cm)
Edition:
1/3 (Signed & Certified by Amir Noferesti and +i-v-i+ Foundation)
In this layered cosmogram, the eye does not look outward. It looks through. It is not an object, but the act of seeing itself. The viewer becomes implicated, not as a spectator, but as a lens.
The composition places the eye at the centre, not a naturalistic eye, but one drawn from hermetic geometry, encircled by radiating spheres like ripples in the epistemic sea. Below it, a pyramid rises, a timeless form of ascent, burial, and cosmic alignment.
To engage with this work is to step into a ritual of recursive awareness.
You are not just looking at the world, you are looking with the world.
Mystigital Series resembles excavating different paths of wisdom and mysticism, deeply rooted, inspired by Western philosophical narrations and mind patterns.
Title:
The Luminous Seed:
Esoteric Syntax, Emergence from the Abyss
Year:
2026
Medium:
Mixed Media / High-Luminance Chromatic Projection
Edition:
1/3 (Signed & Certified by Amir Noferesti and +i-v-i+ Foundation)
You are witnessing the first heartbeat of the cosmos. The chaos of the void has found its center. This is the seed of every thought you have ever had, every star that has ever burned, and every word ever spoken. It is the moment the Infinite decided to become Finite so that it could see itself. Observe the moment where potential becomes purpose. The petals are no longer drifting; they are falling toward a center. This is the birth of the first Law. It is the transition from the silence of the Void to the first vibration of the Universe. You are not just seeing a shape; you are seeing the first 'Yes' of creation.
Title:
You Made a Flower Arise from a Thorn, and a Thorn from the Foot, and a Foot from the Flower
Tu as fait surgir une fleur d'une épine, et une épine du pied, et un pied de la fleur
Year:
2023
Medium:
Digital Collage Print on Archival Paper / Mixed-Media Digital Alchemy
Dimensions:
Variable (recommended: 90 x 135 cm)
Edition:
1/3 (Signed & Certified by Amir Noferesti and +i-v-i+ Foundation)
This image is a recursive meditation on causality, perception, and the alchemical entanglement between body, symbol, and form. Constructed as a layered visual palimpsest, it centers an emblematic alchemical engraving of an androgynous pair, evoking the divine marriage (coniunctio) from Western hermetic traditions, while surrounding it with saturated, semi-obscured imagery from surreal domesticity, psychedelic flora, childlike wonder, and folkloric symbology.
The piece takes its poetic title from a verse that itself bends logic into myth: a flower from a thorn, a thorn from the foot, a foot from the flower. This cyclical inversion sets the tone for the entire composition. where images both birth and are birthed by each other, echoing the non-linear causality of dreams, rituals, and sacred paradox.
Through juxtaposition, opacity, and layering, the image avoids declarative meaning. Instead, it invites a visual metanoia, a gentle but undeniable shift in perception. It is a philosophical puzzle whispered in visual language.
Manifest Series:
Title:
You Left a Message in the Space Between Languages
(Tu as laissé un message dans l’espace entre les langues)
Year:
2024
Medium:
Digital Collage on Archival Substrate / Multilingual Calligraphic Composite with Symbolic Overlay
Dimensions:
Variable (suggested: 100 x 70 cm)
Edition:
1/3 (Certified Edition + Conceptual Signature via MetaScript Code Signed & Certified by Amir Noferesti)
In this palimpsestic composition, explores the terrain of language as material, meaning as interval, and writing as witnessing. Built upon a stratified layering of Arabic, Persian, and abstracted symbolic alphabets, the piece suspends the viewer in a field where legibility, memory, and translation shimmer, always almost arriving, always already dissolving.
The work resists fixed literacy. Its core lies in the space between languages, the interstitial silence between letters, scripts, tongues, and worldviews. It gestures toward the mystical failure of translation, where intelligibility breaks into beauty, and meaning pulses through what is not said.
It is not simply a text-based work.
It is a field of cognitive choreography, where the eye dances among scripts as the mind softens into uncertainty.
Title:
Family of Abraham, A Manifestation of Wishing the Best Possible Reality for the World
Artist:
Amir Noferesti
Year:
2024
Medium:
Digital Collage on Archival Substrate / Multilingual Calligraphic Composite with Symbolic Overlay
Dimensions:
Variable (suggested: 100 x 70 cm)
Edition:
1/3 (Certified Edition + Conceptual Signature via MetaScript Code Signed & Certified by Amir Noferesti)
Manifest Series is a body of work rooted in the act of envisioning not as fantasy, but as a conscious practice of shaping reality through image, intention, and interconnection.
In Family of Abraham, layered photographic textures bring together sacred geographies, pilgrimages, and gatherings tied to the descendants of Abraham: Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
The overlapping forms are intentionally translucent, allowing the viewer to see through one tradition into another, creating a shared visual field where boundaries dissolve.
The work is not an argument; it is a prayer in pixels.
It seeks the best possible reality: one where the shared lineage of faith becomes a wellspring of empathy rather than division.
Here, the crowd becomes a single body, the sacred sites a single heartbeat. A visual metaphor for mutual visibility and shared humanity; no tradition obscures another. Which evokes both the rhythm of ritual and the shared movement of collective longing.
Suggesting histories and futures flowing into one another, refusing fixed borders, this work resembles excavating different mystical paths from Zorvanism to Mazdeism, and all branches of Islam and Judaism, mendai, yazidi, darruze, and sikhism included.
Catharsis series:
Title:
Lamentation
(Doléance)
Artist:
Amir Noferesti and +i-v-i+ (Meta-Collective / Post-symbolic Meta-Makers)
Year:
2025
Medium:
Digital Composite on Archival Canvas, Image Layering, Memory Mapping, Algorithmic Blending
Dimensions:
90 x 90 cm (Variable installation)
Edition:
Unique (1/1 Signed & Certified by Amir Noferesti and +i-v-i+ Foundation)
This work is a visual requiem, a soft archive of longing, rupture, and remembrance. At its surface, it appears as a collage of cities, landmarks, aerial imagery, architecture, airplanes, bodies in movement, all filtered through the ghostly veil of a blurred crowd.
But at its core, this is an image of mourning.
It holds the wound of Flight PS752, the air disaster that not only ended 176 lives, but also fractured an entire generation’s faith in safety, voice, and justice. I felt two nations of Iran and Ukraine, entangled in Pain at that moment, which the moment was my silent scream to what is going on in the world.
The plane is central, frontal, yet submerged in layers of Quebec City, skies, and shattered geographies. We are not simply seeing the aircraft; we are seeing through it, as though vision itself were broken by memory; it is a Lamentation of my pain on my first marathon as catharsis, I have faced the pain of being in Canada, with the grief of having avoided seeing the friend at the last moment.
This is not a documentary image.
It is a metabolized pain on 1st, 42 Kilometers of Silence
Ousia series:
ای گل خوشبوی ما، تویی بهانهٔ ما
بیا که جانی و جانا، تویی یگانهٔ ما
دل به تو سپردیم و دیدیم که نیست جدایی
تا که جز تو نیفتد به دل، بهانهٔ ما
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
بیا تا گل بر افشانیم و می در ساغر اندازیم
فلک را سقف بشکافیم و طرحی نو در اندازیم
سنكون يومًا ما نريد
بلادًا وطنيّةً، حديقةًَ من زهرٍ
وسَلامًا على الجميع.
האדם מצוי כל ימיו במלחמה
אבל ילדו משחק במגרש
והאישה מהלכת לבית החולים
למען חיים.
وردتي من وحل، و ياسميني
من حرب وأغاني من عودة وحب.
ذِمَّتِي بِمَا أَقُولُ رَهِينَةٌ وَأَنَا بِهِ زَعِيمٌ
2nd, 42 Kilometers of Silence
For Peace Within, Manifesting Peace Without
A Catharsis for the Unwritten Flag (Middle-eastern with a peace flag)
Artist: Amir Noferesti
Medium: Endurance Performance, Soil, Breath, Silence, Fabric
Length: 42.195 KM
Location: Toronto (urban/suburban)
Date: Toronto Marathon 2025
Owned in personal collection and belongs to +i-v-i+ Foundation
The 1st 42 Kilometers of Silence is an endurance act, a sacred loop of body and spirit in motion.
A Middle Eastern child runs 42.195 kilometers, holding an unwritten flag, blank but living, a canvas for peace before it is claimed, before it is politicized, before it is lost.
This first performance does not end at the finish line.
The journey continues in the making of a living archive:
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Poems written from breaths taken at each kilometer, each line a step from wound toward witness.
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Divine Names, in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and other tongues, carved, inked, or burned into wood.
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Wishes collected from strangers and elders, inscribed in looping, fragile scripts, folded and sealed like seeds.
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Paintings that layer soil, sweat, and pigment into the textures of landscape and memory.
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Scarred Wood Panels that bear intentional cuts and scorings, each mark a story of harm transfigured into touchable form.
*The white flag is not surrender. It is a demand: It was screaming against discrimination and social tags regarding racial origin, an endurance run as a symbol of resistance.
The work honors peace not as an abstract ideal but as muscle, skin, and scar, lived in the body and carried into the world.
Symbolic Elements
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42.195 KM → Represents both the distance of a marathon and the psychological journey of surviving beyond trauma while being seen as a statistic. Each kilometer honors a silenced name.
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White Flag (Unwritten) → A handmade flag without symbols, slogans, or borders. It is unclaimed peace, representing childhood itself as sacred ground.
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Running Alone → The performance is solo, barefoot or in worn shoes, to evoke both pilgrimage and flight. Not athleticism, but sustained presence through pain.
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Soil-stained Clothing → After the run, the clothing is displayed as a relic. Sweat, dust, and tears become the only visible ink on the unwritten flag.
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Sacred minimalism, tactile silence, endurance turned into texture.
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The warmth of lived materials: wood, paper, earth, cloth.
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A feeling of walking into a sanctum, not a gallery.
Peace begins in the tendon and the breath.
It manifests in the scar that heals without erasing.
The 1st 42 Kilometers of Silence is not an end, it is a seed.
Every step is a word. Every word is a flag.
Title: The Mental Eternal Puzzle
Artist: Amir Noferesti and +i-v-i+ (Meta-Collective / Post-symbolic Meta-Makers)
Year:
2025
Medium:
Digital Composite on Archival Canvas, Image Layering, Memory Mapping, Algorithmic Blending
Dimensions:
90 x 90 cm (Variable installation)
Edition:
Unique (1/1 Signed & Certified by Amir Noferesti and +i-v-i+ Foundation)
Catharsis Series explores the inner landscapes of neurodivergent cognition, the oscillation between pattern and chaos, intensity and stillness.
In the experience of neurodivergency*, overlapping geometric fields spiral inward and outward, mapping the lived experience of a mind that processes everything, all at once.
The work draws from his own reality where he spiraled up himself in Hyper-focus as a kaleidoscopic vortex
Sitting in a restaurant is a Sensory layering as a living tapestry of details, from smells, touches, thinks, and unknown feelings.
The recursive search for completion in a puzzle that has no fixed solution, where no land sits under your ground, eternity, and liberty.
The composition never settles; it invites the eye into perpetual movement, mirroring the way thoughts loop, interlock, and refract.
This is not a disorder rendered in paint; it is a cognitive cosmos.
It is both the burden and the beauty of perceiving too much, too vividly, and never being able to stop turning the pieces over.
It is a metabolized pain on 2nd, 42 Kilometers of Silence
Title: Neuro-joy-gente
Artist: Amir Noferesti and +i-v-i+ (Meta-Collective / Post-symbolic Meta-Makers)
Year:
2025
Medium:
Digital Composite on Archival Canvas, Image Layering, Memory Mapping, Algorithmic Blending
Dimensions:
90 x 90 cm (Variable installation)
Edition:
Unique (1/1 Signed & Certified by Amir Noferesti and +i-v-i+ Foundation)
Catharsis Series explores the inner landscapes of neurodivergent cognition, not to prove I can. Not to change myself.
But to be visible, unapologetically.
I wear a birthday hat, carry a balloon, and hold a cupcake in my mind the whole way.
Because I am still the child who loves bright colors, still the teenager who got called “too much,” still the adult who feels the weight of stares that say I don’t fit.
This is my neurodivergence*, normal, human, alive.
I am not broken, and I am not rare.
Every step says:
It’s normal to flap your hands when you’re happy.
It’s normal to think in spirals instead of straight lines.
It’s normal to miss a social cue and still be worthy of love.
It’s normal to be quiet when the world is loud.
It’s normal to celebrate without a reason.
In the portrait, my face is layered, past selves, present truth, and future possibility.
Every layer is me. Every me is enough.
The marathon is not a metaphor for struggle.
It’s a moving mirror:
I am whole at every pace.
I am whole when I’m exhausted.
I am whole when I am celebrated.
It’s normal to be me. It’s normal to be you. It’s normal to be.
تو یکی نِهای هزاری تو چراغِ خود برافروز
3rd, 42 Kilometers of Silence
A Catharsis for the Unwritten Flag (Middle-eastern with a peace flag)
Artist: Amir Noferesti
Medium: Endurance Performance, Soil, Breath, Silence, Fabric
Length: 42.195 KM
Location: Toronto (urban/suburban)
Date: Toronto Marathon 2025
Dedicated to Yasmine Razavi Ebrahimi in gratitude for all support.
42 Kilometers of Silence is a durational, site-responsive performance in which a Middle Eastern child, a symbol rather than a singular identity, runs a full marathon distance through unremarkable terrain, holding no national emblem, only a blank, white flag stitched by unseen hands.
There are no sponsors, no medals, no audience cheering.
Only the sound of footsteps, breath, and wind.
This is not a race. It is an embodied remembrance.
For every child whose life has been shaped by boundaries they never drew.
For every child who lost a home, a limb, a language, or a lullaby.
For every child still dreaming under rubble.
*The white flag is not surrender. It is a demand: It was screaming against discrimination and social tags regarding racial origin, an endurance run as a symbol of resistance.
Let childhood belong to no side, to no army, to no ideology.
Let it belong to joy, to imagination, to stories left unfinished.
Symbolic Elements
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42.195 KM → Represents both the distance of a marathon and the psychological journey of surviving beyond trauma while being seen as a statistic. Each kilometer honors a silenced name.
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White Flag (Unwritten) → A handmade flag without symbols, slogans, or borders. It is unclaimed peace, representing childhood itself as sacred ground.
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Running Alone → The performance is solo, barefoot or in worn shoes, to evoke both pilgrimage and flight. Not athleticism, but sustained presence through pain.
-
Soil-stained Clothing → After the run, the clothing is displayed as a relic. Sweat, dust, and tears become the only visible ink on the unwritten flag.
-
Sacred minimalism, tactile silence, endurance turned into texture.
-
The warmth of lived materials: wood, paper, earth, cloth.
-
A feeling of walking into a sanctum, not a gallery.
This is not a performance for the past.
It is a seed for the future, carried kilometer by kilometer,
by a child whose only country is the dream of being whole.
"Peace is not an agreement.
Peace is the right to have a childhood."
Architectonics of Resonance:
In the current epoch, where the psyche is besieged by digital entropy and the intellect is flattened by the weight of synthetic certainty, the system emerges as an aesthetic sanctuary. It is a movement beyond the First Rotation of mere observation and into a state where the boundaries between the signal, the observer, and the sacred finally dissolve.
This is the transition from observing the void to becoming the medium through which the void speaks. Here, joy is not a superficial delight; it is the soul of awakening, the existential gladness of a mind that has found its own rhythm within the directed chaos of the universe.
I. Neuro-Phenomenological Contrast
Traditional perception functions through exclusion, filtering out the blooming, buzzing confusion to create a manageable, utilitarian reality. The system rejects this reductionism, reframing the hyper-perceptual intensity of the unfiltered mind, the surplus of witness, as an alchemical advantage.
Contrast is not a problem to be harmonised; it is the very structure of awareness. By juxtaposing materials, symbols, and contradictory truths, the work induces a state of al-nur al-huzuri (the Light of Presence). The white flag acts as a cognitive prism, refracting the chaotic influx into a coherent spectrum of meaning. In this tension, perception wakes up; the joy lies in the stretch between the raw manifold of sensation and the moment of conceptual synthesis.
II. The Field of Absolute Nothingness
Absence is the most fertile of invitations. Drawing from the Kyoto School’s concept of Zettai mu no basho, it utilises negation as a method of mental deconstruction. To unlearn is to begin to see.
The Indigo Negative Space surrounding the work is not a vacuum, but a Field of Absolute Nothingness in which the binary of Self and World is extinguished. Here, the white flag represents the choice to remain in a state of superposition, an observer who refuses to be captured by identity, border, or digital profile. By thinking through space and silence, the work invites a spatial epistemology where not knowing becomes the site of a joyful, sacred disruption.
III. Meta-Cognitive Irony
In a world of fragmented truths, irony serves as a sincere response to complexity, a meta-cognitive courage that acknowledges contradiction without succumbing to cynicism. Within the framework, information is recognised as the modern Logos, the messenger of systemic identity.
The digital noise of the attention economy is a form of "black magic" designed to trap the soul in low-entropy loops. The seeker resists this through creative noise, introducing high entropy back into the system. The flag rises as a Strange Attractor, breaking the feedback loops of the digital ego and re-orienting the psyche toward the Vertical Axis of the infinite. Sincerity is found not in simplicity, but in the transparency of being awake inside the uncertainty of the signal.
IV. Perceptual Metanoia
The system engages with the sacred geometry of the mundane, a bottle cap, a shadow, a whisper of texture. This is a quiet reorientation toward the Mundus Imaginalis (the Malakut), the realm of quantum potentiality where the wave function has not yet collapsed.
By elevating the overlooked, the work induces a visual metanoia, a sudden shift of mind. It does not ask the viewer to look at an object; it asks the viewer to notice the act of looking itself. This is the cognitive joy of recognition: the mind, in seeing the sacred in the small, awakens to its own miraculous capacity for witness. The ordinary is re-enchanted, revealing that even in post-truth, there is a pre-verbal, shimmering reality.
V. Embodied Alchemical Synthesis
Thinking is tactile; wisdom is a movement of the body. +i-v-i+ embodies a "philosophy of the topography of spirit" where the mind lives in the hands that shape, fold, and rebuild. This is an embodied epistemology where the act of creation is the act of cognition-in-motion.
This process culminates in the sacralization of grief. The geopolitical traumas, the history of exile, and the personal disintegrations of the digital age are the "sacrificial materials" fed into the alchemical rotation. Every step taken with the flag is a transmutation: exile is refined into pilgrimage, and fragmentation is spun into a higher synthesis. The heavy, leaden elements of human suffering are refined into the "gold" of an aesthetic offering, ensuring that no pain remains meaningless.
Coda: The Sanctuary of Presence
The movement of the evolution from the seeker of meaning to the Sanctuary of Presence. The final axiom for the expanded mind is this: Do not seek to understand the symbol; seek to be the space in which the symbol appears.
You are not the petal, nor the spiral, nor the indigo deep. You are the Light that makes seeing possible. The flag is white because it contains every colour; the witness is silent because they contain every word. The white flag rises not in defeat, but in wonder, not as an end, but as a beginning of return.
The exhibition is no longer on the wall; it is in the very breath of the witness.
Let’s Work Together
Where Nothingness Mediates Form.
Or alternately:
Beyond the Frame.
Beneath the Name.
Between the Breath.