For Now, I am Content
April Seo
For Now, I Am Content explores temporariness not as absence, but as a delicate and meaningful state of being. Often understood as something short-lived, temporariness carries a sense of fragility. It resists being held. As I explored this term, I started to question if there was meaning in capturing the ephemeral, informed by the desire to leave no lasting trace after our time on earth.
This work is a physical manifestation of my relationship to impermanence. Split into three chapters, each becomes progressively more ephemeral, ultimately arriving at an acceptance of transience and the beauty of leaving nothing behind.
Rooted in my interest in body modification, the body becomes the site where my perspective on legacy is mapped using mark-making tools. The act is intimate and provisional; while mark-making implies endurance, its outcomes remain fleeting.
This tension between permanence and disappearance becomes central to the work, where meaning resides not in what lasts, but in the exploration of the moment of transience between the two—held briefly, in the now.