Taking Inspiration from the Buddist Teachings of the Heart Sutra, the Dharmachakra wheel and Concepts of Dependent Origination, 'this.' represents the reality around us symbolically as a digital interactive sculpture.

It is said, according to the Pitāpūtrasamāgama-sūtra, Siddhārtha became a buddha 'awakened one' because he fully understood the meaning of the two truths—conventional truth (saṁvṛti-satya) and ultimate truth (paramārtha-satya)—and that the reality of all the objects of knowledge, the text says, is exhaustively comprised of these two truths. [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/twotruths-india/]

When further investigated, the shape of a knotted Torus is seen in ASCII, rotating about an axis, the user can use the mouse (or fingers on mobile) to play with the newly revealed shape.

‘this.’ is a keyword in programming used to specify what the programmer is referring to.

Written in Javascript ( NextJs and ThreeJs ) and created from only the basic computing symbols of '0', '1', '&' the two sides to the simplest 'bit' of information - on-off / light-dark / yes-no, and the '&' logical operator to allow for complexity and abstraction.

Abstraction: The entire work can be reduced to a single changing symbol, or it can be a twisted, rotating, interconnected mass of symbols. Its the exact same thing, just from different perspectives. The work challenges our views simplicity and complexity. This is a statement on the creators beliefs :

Information is all, all is Empty.