Incomplete Pictures

“The words lift off the pages to inhabit my world. This world. A world built by language. Letters. Spaces. Punctuation. Grammar is the logic of this world. But what it reveals, like an open window, is its true illuminative purpose: The transcendence of suffering.”

Incomplete Pictures is an experimental novel that explores epistemology and metaphysics, particularly in relation to Buddhist philosophy, existentialism, and avant-garde literature.

At the outset of the novel, Cornelius Baker-Smith finds himself reborn into the world and possesses the ability to remember past lives. Through these memories, which are closely connected to dreams, he is able to deduce that the world he inhabits is a façade that conceals an inexpressible truth. Cornelius becomes torn between personal enlightenment and the potential for the liberation of all beings.