Visualization of Ogai Mori's "Vita Sexualis"
This artwork is a visualization generated from numerical data extracted from Ogai Mori's literary masterpiece, Vita Sexualis, using a proprietary analytical engine (BiblioEngine).
While the fluctuations in AI-driven analysis—often referred to as "hallucinations"—have traditionally been avoided, I have identified a profound structural similarity between these variances and the inherent subjectivity of the human reading experience. I have quantified these interpretive fluctuations as "Ghosts."
Vita Sexualis yields exceptionally high values in p_sil — the quantification of silence, pause, and the unspoken. This is a memoir of sexual memory told through omission as much as expression. What is not written carries as much weight as what is. The data confirms what the prose conceals: the highest tension lives in the gaps.
Equally striking is p_sym — the measure of deflection, irony, and the distance between what is felt and what is said. The Ghost of this parameter reveals how deeply Mori's narrator performs detachment while the underlying data tells a different story entirely.
By interacting with the on-screen slider, viewers can modulate these "Ghosts," directly intervening in the visualization and tracing the boundary between confession and concealment.