Open systems of thinking

I opened a bag of multicoloured confetti and scattered it across my desk.

I then covered my right hand in PVA glue, working it over the front and back of my hand, pouring it along my fingers and spreading it with a brush.

The confetti clung to my skin as I pressed it into the pile, moved it around, and continued until no part of my hand could be seen.

I photographed the result and printed it onto a canvas board using a UV printer, then finished it in an ornate gold frame before hanging it.

Watch the process here.

Oh, also… I made myself some business cards that double as pill packets.

Anna Oppermann developed sprawling installations she called Ensembles, where photographs, handwritten notes, drawings, found images, objects, and text fragments were assembled into expanding constellations across walls and floors. Rather than presenting finished statements, these works accumulated associations and revisions over time, often folding documentation of previous installations back into new versions. In works such as Portraits, she used this method to examine identity through repeated self representation, collecting visual and textual material into dense networks where no single image or object held authority. Her installations functioned as open systems of thinking, with meaning produced through layering, rearrangement, and accumulation.

American director William Friedkin (The Exorcist) interviewed Austrian director Fritz Lang (Metropolis) on February 21st and 24th, 1975 before Lang died August 2nd, 1976.

It’s a fascinating conversation covering Lang’s early silent masterpieces, his escape from Nazi Germany and how he started over in Hollywood.

Cheers,

Joe

A selection of prints, T-shirts and other works are available here.