jesters prophets – financial times market data pages displayed in harlequin pattern – variable dimensions

i rise again, changed, but the same – rubbing of 17th century basel mathematician Jakob I Bernoulli’s grave at Basel Münster, crayola on paper, artists frame – 65 x 67 x 2.5

trolley problem (leverage) – galvanized steel, hardware –  75 x 54 x 145

trolley problem (bastone) – galvanized steel, hardware, 27 x 54 x 140

information exploit (assymetrical histories) – removal of wall dressing, variable dimensions

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a harlequin figure, stick in hand begins to count.

the ordinal exerts more and more influence on us, the exhausted bystanders at the switches of an increasingly complex abstract machine. in a series of skinner boxes, these ethical thought experiments play out in fractal loops: sacrifice one to save the other. 

maybe it has always been this way? since before language, since before counting.

the animal does not slumber so much as sleepwalks within us: sacrifice the other to save the self.

these invisible machinations reinforce and legitimize our primal urges. to escape their grasp, we try to pull the curtain back, but barely scratch the surface.