Buddha readymades, planted in soil from dead potted plants, facing monitors on a live Skype call—routed through a VPN via Mumbai and Bangkok, so the network path of the data mirrors the spiritual geography it invokes. Built in Warren's Wellington apartment.
Webcams pointed at their own monitor outputs produce fractal recursion organically, without any algorithm: each camera captures its own output, which contains a smaller version of the output, until the image dissolves into pure recursive pattern. Warren worked on the geometry of the feedback for weeks and could not get the recursion to come alive. Then a monitor slipped, he repositioned it, and the image got life all at once. The piece was telling him how to make it.
Visitors enter the image not as recognizable people but as light disturbances—present in the work without being representable as themselves. Design the conditions, release control, allow the emergent phenomenon.
