La Jetée
2026
painting, drawing, mixed media
56" x 42"
acrylic, charcoal, soft pastel, PVC on fabric and paper
La Jetée, 2026; homage a Chris Marker's film about time travel to save humanity post apocalypse. Our time needing superintelligence to save us from ourselves?
A drawing work extending Neonatal Boudoir’s speculative chronology into temporal collapse. Harkening Chris Marker’s pilot in La Jetée—whose human memory is leveraged across time to orchestrate salvation—the drawing stages superintelligence’s subsumption of the temporal itself.
For Lyotard, the inhuman operates on two registers: the machinic systems that exceed human comprehension, and the remainder of human experience—sensation, affect, the unrepresentable—that resists all subsumption. La Jetée stages their collapse. The superintelligence that gestures toward salvation is itself inhuman; the human memory it instrumentalizes persists as an inhuman remainder it can never fully absorb. The work refuses to resolve this split, holding both inhumans in irresolvable tension.
Generative AI inspiration
AI image generated from webcam feed of person interacting with NICU 3
NICU 3, 2025 image prompt and this positive text prompt in ComfyUI: Photo real, Art installation of a neonatal intensive care unit, arteries hang
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