Completed in 2022, this work encodes an era's upheaval through layered symbol. Columbia holds the glyph of Mercury in retrograde, the astrological condition associated with disrupted communication and collapsed systems. A crow, the bird of omen, intelligence, and transition between worlds, presides above. A snake bears an apple in its mouth: the perennial emblem of knowledge taken at a cost. An Ethereum coin and a gas pump mark the seam between the outgoing and incoming economic order. The scroll reading E Pluribus Unum hangs over the scene as a question more than a declaration. This work stands as the series' origin point, the moment the digital dawn was no longer metaphor.
Completed in 2022, this work encodes an era's upheaval through layered symbol. Columbia holds the glyph of Mercury in retrograde, the astrological condition associated with disrupted communication and collapsed systems. A crow, the bird of omen, intelligence, and transition between worlds, presides above. A snake bears an apple in its mouth: the perennial emblem of knowledge taken at a cost. An Ethereum coin and a gas pump mark the seam between the outgoing and incoming economic order. The scroll reading E Pluribus Unum hangs over the scene as a question more than a declaration. This work stands as the series' origin point, the moment the digital dawn was no longer metaphor.