'Transcendental Meditation' by David Lynch

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Feedback mechanisms, think recursion, are surprisingly new even as they are ubiquitous in biology and many systems today. This may be why we have trouble naturally grokking recursive systems like our own minds. (Many zen koans are attempting to get one to see recursion that seems counterintuitive) 1800s saw many new ones. One of the first? The floatball mechanism we still have in most home toilets.

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Consciousness is making a comeback. Gotta figure out our own before we can start assessing the machines', I suppose. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610723001128?via%3Dihub

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I agree with at least half of what Hoffman is saying, maybe 80%. But something about his affect and literal as well as figurative hand waving drives me nuts. https://youtu.be/qobXNImZkl0?si=ObffwlFC-WbLxpbS

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cozy nativity scenes feel passé, sharing the Melun Diptych (1452) by Jean Fouquet, arguably the most surreal painting of the renaissance looks like a sci-fi fever dream, but every strange detail was actually a massive XVth century flex here's to bizarre art, and weird & wonderful holidays 🤍✨

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1 of 4 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙖𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚. 𝙉𝙤𝙬, 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙛𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮. — 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘈𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘴, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 sharing a handful of images from the specatcular m.c. escher exhibition in paris

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𝙒𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙. —𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘔𝘤𝘓𝘶𝘩𝘢𝘯 i like how the mise en abyme visualizes the 'narcosis' McLuhan talked about: the way we numb ourselves by staring endlessly into our own technologies... TV Tautológia (1990) by Peter Rónai

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Our subconscious is much both bigger and smarter than our conscious mind. Make friends with it.

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remembering that insights often arrive in a language i don't speak while awake dreams are the best counter to scrolling 'Survival' (1985) by Jenny Holzer, in cast aluminum

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happy new moon in scorpio, and mercury cazimi in scorpio (a stellar day for logging off early ✨ ) from The Utopian Encyclopedia

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I made this work for a show at Whitespace in Edinburgh titled Redline in August 2025. The shape is incised with a Cameo Silhouette Pro into IBM 5081 computer punchcards. The shape represents the area of the gallery space which was cordoned off by a red line, within which my original, authentic drawings and paintings were exhibited. Outwith the red line was everything that was computationally derivative of these works. Each of these works are embedded with an NFC chip which contains the lineage of the idea which traces right back to the kernel of the original idea. The work speaks to the idea of how a thread of human authenticity can be woven into artificial derivatives and validated on a decentralised blockchain.

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revisiting the descent, happy monday! 'Marcel Duchamp descendant un escalier' (1952) by Eliot Elisofon for LIFE Magazine

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before microchips, there were miles of wire, and every bit was stitched by human dexterity! ‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York’ (1956) by Ansel Adams

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a broadside on the Cretan labyrinth with letterpress text in Latin + German (circa 1550)

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