digital arson
an original of something that can't be.
we treat digital images like they last forever. they don't, and what gets lost when they go is the whole subject.
a phone screen, printed once, on stone.
each tile is a uv print on travertine. screens die, formats stop opening, stone just keeps.
the weight of a phone, on stone.
the shape and weight of a device, in artifact material. the illustrations are drawn by hand but meant to look ai generated, on purpose.
the stone tiles, installed in new york.
shown at the parsons mfa thesis exhibition in april 2026.
the library of alexandria did not burn in a day. it rotted.
the cloud is the same fantasy: one place to keep everything, degrading in slow, ambient ways. the scribe is now the interface, and your archive is not yours.
everything around the image talks too.
the interfaces are knockoffs, rebuilt from memory with ai. the illustrations and stories are mine, the container was built by a system i directed.
the frame becomes the device.
what if the hardware didn't fail? the luchador tile came out of the adobe x parsons ai lab.
the works, ready to hold.
each tile is one of a kind, uv print on travertine. the full collection lives in the shop.
