Moral Weather

My work explores how moral stance shifts over time and how those shifts can be made visible without collapsing into slogans. In this series I translate moral foundation scores into weather studies. Care becomes moisture and precipitation. Fairness becomes the quality of light across times of day. Loyalty becomes the coherence of motion in the sky. Authority becomes pressure structure and laminar wave order. Liberty becomes directional flow across the frame. Sanctity is not a claim about purity in the world. It is the quality of the glass we are looking through.

The horizon is a deliberate change from earlier, fully unplaced skies. It functions as a calibration line, a shared reference for scale and drift. It introduces orientation without introducing narrative. The work still avoids location cues, landmarks, and symbolic shorthand. There are no flags, seals, maps, or readable signs. The scene is reduced to what can be read in the atmosphere itself: banding, haze, shear, streaking, bloom, refraction.

The glass is part of the image system rather than a framing device. Scratches, fogging, and distortion shift with the scores, making mediation visible as an optical condition. A clearly visible reflection appears in the glass, derived from contemporary language and institutional forces, but it remains abstract. It shows up as geometry and light patterns rather than recognizable objects. It is a trace of structure, not an emblem.

In the video work, transitions are driven by the delta between score sets. Change has direction and tempo. The goal is not to persuade or diagnose. It is to build a shared perceptual surface where differences can be seen, compared, and discussed before they harden into symbols.