Instructions for Falling is an installation based on Tarot card XVI, The Tower. Rather than treating the archetype as a prediction of catastrophe, the project approaches it as a model for examining structures whose instability becomes visible only at the moment of collapse.

Here, falling is not understood as failure, but as revelation. The impact does not create the crack; it exposes what was already unstable beneath the appearance of coherence.

The project shifts attention away from the dramatic moment of collapse and towards what remains afterwards. Sixteen works function as fragments and consequences of The Tower: pressure, cracks, impact, displacement, falling figures, echoes, archives, prostheses, and remains. They do not reconstruct the destroyed whole. Instead, they examine how its traces can be observed, organised, and transformed into a new visual system.

Transparent, smoked, and mirrored plexiglass becomes a material language for this unstable architecture. Engraved lines resemble cracks, nerves, diagrams, and structural traces, while reflections fragment the viewer’s own image and draw the body into the work.

Ornament is used not as decoration but as a way to direct and sustain attention. While impact concentrates the gaze on a single dramatic moment, ornament distributes it across the surface. Repetition creates rhythm; interruption makes absence visible. The remains become beautiful not because destruction is romanticised, but because sustained attention reveals relationships that were previously concealed.

At the centre of the installation is Residual Signal, a plexiglass structure with an integrated screen displaying a looping video impulse. Somewhere between a seismograph, an electrical signal, and an internal alarm, the pulse appears, disappears, and begins again. It functions as a temporal ornament: evidence that the structure is no longer whole, yet has not entirely stopped.

Instructions for Falling treats collapse as an artistic and research method — a way of examining what becomes visible when a structure can no longer maintain the fiction of its own stability.