[ ] FRACTA TELA, LUX ORITUR & THE INSTRUMENT OF ALIGNMENT
2025 · Publication, sculptural divinatory instrument and speculative archive.
An interconnected body of work bringing together an artist’s publication, a wooden divinatory instrument and an expanding archive of images, glyphs and speculative writings.
Historical ritual technologies meet contemporary image-making and artificial intelligence through questions of intention, orientation and interpretation. The publication proposes relationships between documents, symbols and imagined histories, while the physical instrument opens these questions to bodily encounter, gesture and use.
The Instrument of Alignment is an ongoing artistic research project examining the relationship between technology, perception, and the esoteric, with particular attention to contemporary image-making and artificial intelligence. It unfolds through a system of symbols, texts, and reconstructed apparatuses that operate between visual art, research, and speculative inquiry.
At its core stands a wooden divinatory instrument, an interpretive reconstruction of a speculative device that serves as a physical counterpart to a set of thirteen glyphs. These glyphs function as diagrams of cognition and transformation, tracing a correspondence between human intention and algorithmic inference, between the material and the immaterial image.
The project extends across a constellation of works and texts. The Unaligned Archive forms its research corpus, assembling field notes, symbolic diagrams, and academic fragments from a veiled order of inquiry. These documents map an archaeology of unseen mechanisms and ritual technologies, situating the work between historical knowledge systems and contemporary computational frameworks.
The publication Fracta Tela, Lux Oritur brings this structure into book form. It gathers images and textual fragments into a single circulating field, where esoteric philosophy, technological speculation and visual poetics converge.
The Instrument emerges as a physical consequence of the archive, giving material form to an apparatus first encountered through images and texts. Its speculative history becomes the starting point for real gestures, shared attention and lived experience. These encounters can, in turn, generate new fragments that return to the archive, allowing the work to develop through recurrence and reinterpretation.
Fragments gather, separate and return.
[ ] FRACTA TELA, LUX ORITUR may be encountered in its entirety via the link below - as sequence, interval and folded fields:
A digital version of The Instrument of Alignment is currently being constructed at:
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