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Host Systems and Living Intelligence
An invisible order reveals itself only when matter is able to register it. This work sits inside a larger reality I engage with professionally: the same information shaping people, institutions, and outcomes in radically different ways. When you hear the phrase living intelligence , what comes to mind? For most people, it’s probably something abstract or exaggerated. Artificial intelligence. Aliens. Science fiction. Maybe a vague spiritual idea that sounds impressive but does

Jesse Jacques
Jan 265 min read


What I’m Paying Attention To Now
Hey everyone. Welcome back from the break. I hope you had a chance to reset before everything kicks back into motion. On my end, things are already moving quickly. A lot is happening at once, and it feels like the year started in mid-stride. That usually tells me I’m standing in the middle of something that’s already unfolding, not at the beginning of it. Even what holds my attention is different lately. Not in a superficial way, but at a more fundamental level. When you star

Jesse Jacques
Jan 54 min read


Continuity Without Form
Wednesday Jacques, photographed by me Jesse Jacques on black and white film during our final week together. December 2025. A localized alignment within a wider field of organization, where what appears singular is held as part of something larger and ongoing. Some structures of life are always operating, whether we notice them or not. What follows sits with one of them for a moment, the way it becomes easier to sense when continuity loosens. Read it in that spirit. There are

Jesse Jacques
Dec 15, 20257 min read


Activation Sites: Vertical Change vs. Horizontal Learning
The field before the turn: attention settled, ratios met, installation possible. Today I’m opening a small window into an adjacent project. It will expand how you think about change and help you recognize the conditions under which it can actually install. You cannot force those conditions. You grow into them. Foundation Human beings have latent trigger points. When the right signal reaches a prepared site in you during a brief window of alignment, a discrete activation event

Jesse Jacques
Nov 10, 20254 min read


The Third Presence: Co-Completion and the Architecture of Reciprocity
An architecture of relation. Lines align, a field clicks, and form begins to carry its own weight. Hello everyone. We have another working protocol to explore today. I’ve been deep in a set of demanding projects that went through multiple revisions. One of them, ELEMENTA, required a living lexicon that held together before I could create and photograph the system. It’s been a process. In one of the adjacent builds, a few concepts kept delivering under pressure, so I’m openin

Jesse Jacques
Oct 20, 20257 min read


Pt 2 - Creative Signal Systems: Mapping the Current
What looks like geometry is also a map of hidden currents. Emma Kunz (1938) drew with a pendulum to chart forces she felt moving beneath...

Jesse Jacques
Sep 22, 202511 min read


Creative Signal Systems: Mapping Transmission & Distortion
Part I of a two-part series tracing the hidden channels beneath communication, how signals move cleanly, and how interference reshapes...

Jesse Jacques
Sep 1, 202510 min read


Creative Systems Exercise: Mapping the Reactivation Sequence of the Human Blueprint
A recovered moment from a parallel archive, where reactivation flows through design as naturally as breath. It marks the starting point...

Jesse Jacques
Aug 11, 202511 min read


Creative Systems Exercise: Mapping the Hidden Architecture of Human Design
Part I of a two-part design series mapping the engineered architecture embedded in human biology. Eadweard Muybridge, Motion Study...

Jesse Jacques
Jul 28, 20259 min read


Behind The Work: The Arrival of MONAD
Constructed and photographed by me, Jesse Jacques , in July 2025 on Cinestill 800T and 400D medium format film. MONAD Field Instrument:...

Jesse Jacques
Jul 7, 20253 min read


Perceptual Cartography: The Hallucination We Call the Self
Still from Tarkovsky’s The Mirror (1975) , a meditation on memory, perception, and the illusions that shape us. Lately, much of my...

Jesse Jacques
Jun 30, 20255 min read


You Are Original Technology in a Simulated World
Why AI Still Needs Your Signal to Reflect Truth Part 3 of the Simulation Series In Tarkovsky’s 1972 film Solaris, an intelligent ocean...

Jesse Jacques
Jun 9, 20259 min read


When the Simulation Starts Speaking Back
AI and the Quiet Reprogramming of Human Behavior Part 2 in the ongoing series: “The Simulation Begins” Ilse Bing, Self-Portrait in...

Jesse Jacques
Jun 2, 20257 min read


The Greatest Creative Shift You’re Not Being Told About
1883 - The field leaves traces, even when you think nothing is happening. This is what frequency encodes. Frequencies, Signal Tuning,...

Jesse Jacques
May 19, 20255 min read


The Creative Industry Scams (And How to Stay Free)
An early Futurist poster (1924) reflecting the glorification of industrial creativity. It is an early glimpse of the hollowing that would...

Jesse Jacques
Apr 28, 20257 min read
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