Taketo Muroi - The Silent Orders 5

Technique: Promptography on fine art paper
Image size: 45 x 30 cm
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Year: 2025

The Silent Orders 5

With The Silent Orders 5, Taketo Muroi radically slows down the series. After cosmic symbols, tectonic openings, and technological architectures, a single red cloth now appears—floating, almost weightless, above a still body of water. Order here no longer manifests as a system or structure, but as a gesture.

The cloth is clearly culturally charged: it evokes flags, offerings, ritual fabrics. Yet it belongs to no recognizable collective, no state, no religion. It hangs not from a mast, but from two fragile poles that symbolize balance rather than power. Order is not established here—it is maintained.

In contrast to The Silent Orders 4 , where order appeared as an autonomous infrastructure, this work feels profoundly human and yet detached. The AI ​​translates order into a poetic limbo: red represents intensity, presence, perhaps even warning – but without text, without signs, without commands. The reflection in the water doubles the motif and simultaneously dissolves it. What appears clear above becomes diffuse below.

The Silent Orders 5 thus marks a turning point within the series. Order here is no longer a law, a machine, or a cosmic principle, but a silent understanding between space, material, and perception. An order that is not imposed, but rather unfolds.