Light is the primary material — not as a phenomenon unto itself, but as something that passes through the layered architectures we've constructed to hold it: screens, glass, interfaces, surfaces. The work accumulates in strata. One register sits atop another, and what reaches the viewer is always the residue of transit — what remains after light has crossed thresholds, been filtered, been lost.

Technology carries its own obsolescence inward. A television dims in proportion to its use. Monitor phosphors exhaust themselves over years of operation. Ink, left too long in daylight, withdraws from paper. The body traces a similar arc — skin lax, vision soft — and screens follow that same trajectory, degrading precisely through the act of being looked at.

Much of this work lives on-chain, with NFTs functioning less as certificates than as containers for pieces structured around entropy. Blockchain promises permanence. The screen rendering that promise to you, in this moment, is already failing — imperceptibly, incrementally, every time it illuminates.

any is a Vancouver-based digital artist working under a pseudonym. His practice orbits light and its endurance — or its failure to endure — as it travels through display surfaces across their lifespans.

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This site is static HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no build step and no dependencies. Every work shown on it is rendered live by the same engine that renders the series itself, vendored in from the project it belongs to. Both engines happen to claim the same global name, which is why each piece here is given its own frame.

Set in the system serif for prose and the system monospace for apparatus — the second of those is the typeface the works use for their own readouts.