Emkan

Reduction in artwork could have different points of departure and end.
Sometimes reduction is done for the matter of interpretation (in the traditional sense of the term); i.e. returning things to their point of origin: reducing the work to the elements of visual language (cutting down and minimizing as a way of avoiding chaos, or extremities of subjectivity), or bringing them back to the beginning as a way to the

essence, the origin and the source; returning to the moment of inception of things; unclosing the truth (Aletheia)
Reduction also could be a sort of suspension; to suspend, to put in bracket (epoche), or to rapture the stream of a particular realty, or “reality” as the universal principle of the practices, regularities, habits that conceals possibilities, singularities, and events.
And sometimes reduction is trimming and modifying to unclose what is covered under the layers of sedimentation. Setting aside, pruning, in order to make present the absence of something; removing things and emptying the eld so that the nonbeing of things illuminates their beings, and their whatness, and their howness.
That is why the image of a naked house without furniture would be inscribed in our memory at the very moment of leaving: a negative image that suddenly exposes the essence of the positive.

Majid Akhgar Oct. 2015