Nobody has seen light. A beam crossing a vacuum is invisible, and what we call seeing light is seeing something light happened to: a body that stopped it, a medium it crossed, a sensor that gathered it slowly. So the medium is never a neutral container. Screens, glass, ink, interfaces, they all take a cut, and the leftovers are the whole of what you can see. I treat that as the subject.
The equipment is built to wear out, and I mean that literally. A television dims in proportion to how much it has been watched. Phosphors burn themselves down. Ink left in daylight withdraws from paper. Bodies go the same way, slower, by much the same mechanism. Being looked at costs something.
These works live on chain, where the token holds the piece rather than certifying it. A permanent address for something organised around entropy, shown on a screen that is already failing. That contradiction is the subject.
any is a digital artist in Vancouver, working under a pseudonym. The work follows light and colour as they travel through space, time and decay, and asks how much of them survives the trip.
- 2026
- Light / Signal Edition of fifty, in curation · generative, interactive · real-time browser
- 2026
- Light / Paper In progress, edition not yet set · four process inks on a sheet · real-time browser
Acquisition, exhibition, commissions, press. If you are writing about one token, quote its hash.
Static HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No build step, no dependencies. Nothing here is a screenshot: every work on every page, thumbnails included, is drawn live in your browser by the script that makes the series.
Prose is set in the system serif, apparatus in the system monospace.