我的作品《构建的空洞》进入了内心的空间。我凝视着这些照片，我想知道它们是否代表着我内心的空间，或者隐喻着我存在于更广阔多元宇宙之中。
My Constructed Voids step into the spaces of my in-between. I gaze upon these photographs and wonder if their metaphor represents spaces inside of me or if the metaphor points to my presence inside of a larger multiverse.

这些“空洞”将隐秘与奇观融为一体，以这种方式质问当代摄影的期许在何处。我将它们定位为空灵的风景（崇高而又超凡脱俗），我认为它们在视觉上的模糊性是需要人去加以阐释的。为此，作品的标题（《帕尔纳》《奎因》《阿姆苏》《耶恩》）都是捏造的词语，旨在消除含义，鼓励思考。
These Voids merge mystery with spectacle in a manner that queries expectations of the contemporary photograph. I position them as ethereal landscapes—sublime, yet otherworldly—and embrace the idea that their visual ambiguity invites interpretation. To that end, their titles (Parna, Quin, Amsu, Jern) are fabricated words intended to strip away narrative connotation and encourage meditative consideration.

西尔·阿里纳是加利福尼亚州的一位艺术家和教育家，以其对充满活力的色彩以及对非典型摄影的探索而闻名。西尔·阿里纳用作品致敬包豪斯艺术家，承认自己对表面、颜色和阴影之间相互作用的痴迷。在抽象之外，西尔·阿里纳将他的照片定位为新现实的愿景，而不是镜头前的场景提取，因此他将其称为“非模像的”。
西尔·阿里纳还热衷于评论在手机屏幕泛滥的世界里，摄影只是图像物品，其地位日渐丧失。他曾经展示过未经装裱、大尺幅（96x137cm）的《构建空洞》系列作品，直接悬挂于画廊的墙壁之间。为了增加作品的真实性，在展厅通风系统或好奇的观众吹动下，这些印刷品会轻轻飘动，如果一个人快速走过还会发出隆隆声。
西尔·阿里纳的摄影作品已在美国和世界各地展出。其中最值得关注的是：纽约光圈基金会的《2016光圈夏季公开展：摄影是魔术》，韩国CICA博物馆《现代摄影2018》和哈瓦那古巴Fototeca de Cuba的《古巴景象》。
Syl Arena is a California-based artist/educator known for his use of energetic color and his explorations of non-representational photography. In a manner that echoes the work of Bauhaus artists, Arena admits an obsession with the interaction of surface, color, and shadow. Looking beyond the world of abstraction, Arena positions his photographs as visions of new realities rather than an extraction of the scene before the lens and, thus, refers to them as “non-mimetic.”
Arena is also greatly interested in commenting on the loss of the photograph’s position as image-object in our screen-based world. He exhibits his Constructed Void series as unframed, large-scale prints (38”w x 54”h) that arc directly from the walls of the gallery. To add to the physicality of the work, under the movement of gallery ventilation or the breath of a curious viewer, the prints undulate gently and, if one walks past the prints quickly, they emit a rumble.
Arena’s photography has been exhibited throughout the US and internationally. Among the most noteworthy are: ‘2016 Aperture Summer Open: Photography Is Magic’ at the Aperture Foundation in New York, ‘Contemporary Photography 2018’ at the CICA Museum in Korea, and ‘Visions of Cuba’ at Fototeca de Cuba in Havana.