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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 207 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 2211 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 110 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 1111 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 289 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 73 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 305 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 99 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 27 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 195 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 287 min read
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