threshold works

A law, a guideline, a constraint. A principle that regulates—quietly, repeatedly. Rule as authority: control, administration, empire. Rule as norm: the default state of affairs. Rule as method: a determinate procedure that produces a result. Rule as instrument: a ruler, a straightedge, a measure. Rule as trace: a line across paper, guiding what can be written. Rule as print: the thin plate that separates columns—organizing what counts as readable.

The Eye V0002 Nr.0212.00000212, February, 2020, mixed media. cr. Alaz

These three works sit inside a practice I describe as procedural painting: an image-making method developed at the seam between cinema post-production and digital print. Thousands of visual fragments—press imagery, film frames, and anonymous online material—are compressed, abstracted, and re-assembled into a new surface logic. The results behave like “paintings,” but the brush is replaced by editing decisions, software constraints, and algorithmic drift.

A curatorial reading of this body (developed around the works’ first public-facing context) frames them as digital-age pictures shaped by the conditions of circulation: media pressure, migration, sexuality as a coded public topic, and climate anxiety as background noise. The images are not illustrations of those themes; they operate more like psychographic residue—what gets stuck to the eye when visibility is regulated by systems (headlines, feeds, interfaces, reputations). In that sense, the works treat upcycling not as a lifestyle motif but as a structural principle: discarded images are not “cleaned,” they are reformatted—kept unstable—so the viewer stays aware of the archive’s politics.

Process Note

Source logic: large pools of found material (news/online imagery + cinematic fragments) treated as “evidence,” not reference.

Transformation: abstraction through coded/technical procedures; image compression and reconstitution produce a second-order legibility.

Aesthetic premise: montage becomes a surface—a pressure field—rather than a hidden post step.

Output: the digital file is resolved as an object (UV print / Diasec), so interface-born imagery gains

weight, glare, and scale.