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

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...

Part I of a two-part series tracing the hidden channels beneath communication, how signals move cleanly, and how interference reshapes...

A recovered moment from a parallel archive, where reactivation flows through design as naturally as breath. It marks the starting point...

Part I of a two-part design series mapping the engineered architecture embedded in human biology. Eadweard Muybridge, Motion Study...

No one’s inside, but the branding still beams.  A soft metaphor for the spaces we keep performing into, even when the signal’s left. Have...

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

Still from Tarkovsky’s   The Mirror (1975) , a meditation on memory, perception, and the illusions that shape us. Lately, much of my...

A glimpse into the materials, mood, and mess behind one of this summer’s photography builds. Hey everyone, It’s pretty much summertime...

Why AI Still Needs Your Signal to Reflect Truth Part 3 of the Simulation Series In Tarkovsky’s 1972 film Solaris, an intelligent ocean...

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

The simulation doesn’t begin with the machine. It begins with our surrender to the mirror.   Duane Michals, “Heisenberg’s Magic Mirror of...

1883 - The field leaves traces, even when you think nothing is happening. This is what frequency encodes. Frequencies, Signal Tuning,...

Some real questions. Some unexpected answers. Behind the scenes, in every sense. (Q&A live now) It’s been almost three years since my...

Image created by me, Jesse Jacques, May 2025 Photographed on Cinestill 800T film on medium format. One expression of a signal tuned...

An early Futurist poster (1924) reflecting the glorification of industrial creativity. It is an early glimpse of the hollowing that would...

Giorgio de Chirico, “L’arcobaleno” (1969) A rainbow divides a space of stillness and tension. In a world of artificial light and perfect...

David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (Falling Buffalos), 1988–89 Echoes arrive in form before they arrive in understanding. ✦ Transmissions for...

Fritz Kahn’s “Man as Industrial Palace” (1926):  A visual metaphor for the human reduced to parts. Predictable, productive, and...

Image created by me, Jesse Jacques, April 2025. Shot on 8x10 film. Structured by necessity and charged with presence. What enters the...