Point-Luminist Visual Philosophy: The Ontological Engineering of Light and Perception

This paper challenges the traditional representationalist paradigm in the philosophy of visual arts and establishes "Point-Luminism" as a distinct ontological framework. Diverging from 19th-century Neo-Impressionism, Point-Luminism is grounded in the ontological premise that the world is fundamentally a colorless "field of potentiality," and visual reality is actively constructed by consciousness rather than passively received. Through the utilization of the "electric dotspen," the artist deconstructs images into discrete "Luminous Quanta"—physically protruding, three-dimensional color points. This system models the physical state of light prior to perception. We argue that the act of gazing functions structurally analogously to quantum measurement, collapsing the potentiality of the Luminous Quanta into a coherent "Perceptual Imago," thereby establishing the observer's central role as the legislator of the phenomenal world.