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Amalgam Man is a graphic novel I am working on that is about Snapshot, a man lost in a psychedelic place called trauma land. Snapshot has no recollection of how he got there or how long he’s been there. What he does know is that he needs to find his way out. . . Volume…
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I. Reflection and Accumulation These recent works feel like a quiet culmination, the sum of long hours spent with ink, patience, and repetition. Each line became a meditation, a small act of focus that slowly turned into something whole. II. Process as Inquiry Working through these drawings has reminded me that process is its own…
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“Here we go again…again.” Albert Camus’ interpretation of The Myth of Sisyphus is not a story of despair but of conscious endurance. Condemned to push a boulder up a mountain only for it to roll back each time, Sisyphus lives in a space between purpose and absurdity. In that tension he finds freedom. Camus writes that one…
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“Rite of Passage” How can liminal states be used as deliberate generative engines for positive growth instead of just passive & accidental technologies? A liminal state can be defined as a transitional “in-between” state that occurs when an individual/group is moving in between one stable condition or identity and another. In anthropology, liminality can be…
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Too often, the story told about generative technology is one of acceleration faster workflows, automated outputs, reduced costs. This is important, but it is also incomplete. By focusing only on efficiency, we risk overlooking the capacity of these tools to create spaces of transformation. . . . what anthropologists might call liminal spaces. A liminal experience is…
Fernando Alcala Jr. 