In traditional practice, the seal is applied only at the end of a work—like a full stop, a final gesture of closure and authority. In this project, I subvert that function through programming. The seal is no longer the conclusion but the beginning, an open and generative state. It expands into a visual language of endless iteration, reflecting how, in the digital age, nothing remains fixed or untouchable. Every image, every trace, can be re-used, re-combined, and re-generated, carrying tradition forward into continuous transformation.
This work reimagines the seal as a process rather than an endpoint. Composed through Processing code, countless small characters continually assemble, dissolve, and re-form into the image of a seal. Each character is fleeting, like an individual life in constant circulation. Yet together, they sustain an endless cycle of disappearance and return. The seal, once a mark of closure, becomes an open, unfinished state—an emblem of continuity rather than conclusion.
Variable size, 2025, Processing generative video