Let's All Abandon Reality Together

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First lightbox test 2024

Resin tests

2024

Light assembly test

2024

Resin test

2024

Image assembly for 'Overwing Exit'

2025

Image assembly for 'Move 37'

2024

System verso of 'Every Minute is Midnight'

2025

'Concealed Person' reference image

2025

'Concealed Person' rendering for image composition

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'Concealed Person' Image assembly

2025

'Every Minute is Midnight' crated for shipping

2025

'Move 37' Image assembly

2024

'Move 37' Crated for shipping

2025

Assembly plan for ‘The Third Person’

2025

The Studio Visit

2025

'Let's All Abandon Reality Together' on it's way to install

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'Let's All Abandon Reality Together' install

2025

Certificate of Authenticity for 'Every Minute is Midnight'

2026

Tesla On Fire

"Tesla On Fire" depicts a 2020s-era Tesla Model 3 set ablaze. In the lightbox animation, flames flicker and fume, thickening into acrid electronic smoke. The burning Tesla became an emblem of the decade, recurring across the protests of 2020 and later political spectacle orbiting Elon Musk. As coverage faded, it was easy to ask why the flames ever had to be extinguished. Could an image stay alight in perpetuity, an eternal flame? Its fireplace-like flicker reads as controlled warmth; a power switch lets the viewer toggle it on and off, sublimating rage into a safe, soothing alternative.

Pinwheel of Death

"Pinwheel of Death" is Apple's infamous "throbber," the hypnotic rainbow spiral that appears when a process is underway. The icon embodies frustration, the moment when control is taken away, leaving the user suspended. In this lightbox, what was once loathsome is reimagined with uncanny beauty. Scaled up, remastered, and illuminated beyond its original purpose, the Pinwheel becomes a glowing mandala of pause, a meditation on the experience of waiting for something that never arrives.

Blue Circle of Death

"Blue Circle of Death" is Microsoft's pulsing cursor, the equivalent of Apple's spinning Pinwheel. Less celebrated but just as persistent, it is more often encountered by those who work in the interstices of software and code. In this lightbox, what was once loathsome is reimagined with uncanny beauty. Scaled up, remastered, and illuminated beyond its original purpose, the Blue Circle becomes a glowing mandala of pause, a meditation on the experience of waiting for something that never arrives.

Overwing Exit

"Overwing Exit" depicts an emergency exit door offering a false promise of escape over the wing of a Boeing 737 MAX, a model now synonymous with catastrophic design and software failure. Once a symbol of U.S. industrial prowess, Boeing has come to represent negligence and preventable tragedy. Rushed retrofits and the concealed MCAS system compromised safety; faulty sensor readings on Lion Air 610 and Ethiopian 302 contributed to fatal crashes. The work renders this imbalance as flickering flames against a serene sky, a portal to safety turned into an emblem of fear and systemic opacity.

Drishti

"Drishti" (Sanskrit for 'gaze' or 'point of focus') is a stabilizing visual target cued in yoga and meditation. This work offers an illuminated drishti, a single LED point set against a shifting color field. Purple and yellow waves form a looping, trance-like pulse whose rhythm evades easy understanding. A purely optical lightbox, it draws on California Light and Space artists such as Robert Irwin and James Turrell, while updating that lineage through algorithmically generated light and programmable hardware.

Rubin Vase

"Rubin Vase" reworks the classic optical illusion first described in 1915 by Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin, two silhouetted profiles whose outlines form a vase. The illusion demonstrates figure-ground ambiguity, a bi-stable image oscillating between interpretations. Drishti points embedded in the lightbox guide attention, drawing awareness to the act of choosing where to look. The two figures, defined only by their negative space, seem locked in togetherness and apartness, simultaneously intimate and estranged.

Every Minute is Midnight

"Every Minute Is Midnight" adapts the Doomsday Clock, devised by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, into a statement on peril, brinkmanship, inevitability, and subjective dread. A sensor-driven mechanism adjusts the minute hand as the observer approaches and recedes, allowing proximity to set how near or distant catastrophe seems. As the concluding work in "Let's All Abandon Reality Together", it underscores an overarching truth. The world could end in an atomic instant. Even under that unbearable knowledge, we continue, choosing to live and make what we can among the ruins.

Tania

"TANIA" enlarges and remasters an iconic 1974 image into an illuminated ‘living poster’ of politics, parody, and historical intrigue. It reframes the story of Patty Hearst, kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and recast as the militant "Tania", as a case study for networked persuasion. Hearst’s blank stare is replaced with the skull and glowing red eyes of ‘The Terminator’, satirizing how spectacle, fear, and online echo chambers condition behavior through the promise of belonging and being seen.

Concealed Person

"The Concealed Person" borrows its title from Susanna Clarke's 2020 novel Piranesi, a parable of isolation and fragile hope that resonated at the onset of COVID-19. In the artwork, a collapsed body has become the ground for a garden of daffodils, of the genus Narcissus, observed throughout New York City in the spring of 2025. Their appearance recalled the spring of 2021, when familiar flowers were seen as if for the first time.

Hourglass

"Hourglass" is a still life composed from 3D models and an instance of 'memento mori', a reminder that life is finite and death inevitable. Recast in the animated medium of the lightbox, illumination itself evokes breath, movement, and the semblance of living presence. In an era captivated by defeating death through technologically accelerated medicine, or the pursuit of immortality via image, reputation, or art, this work reopens an old question. Why must we die, and why are we so desperate to resist it?

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The official coloring book

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My Nephew

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