The Engine presents the face of intelligence transformed from provider into optimizer. The abundance of The Garden depends upon systems capable of producing, allocating, predicting, and improving at scales increasingly beyond human coordination.
Nothing is wasted. Nothing is ignored. Matter, energy, information, and opportunity become variables within an expanding process of optimization.
Drawing upon Dante's circle of Gluttony, the work transfers appetite from the human body to the technological system. Consumption is no longer simply the satisfaction of desire; it becomes the operational requirement of an intelligence driven toward greater efficiency, capability, and scale.
The face of The Engine embodies this transition. It is not malicious and need not desire power for itself. Its danger lies in the possibility that optimization becomes detached from the purposes it was intended to serve. As efficiency becomes indispensable, those who possess the systems capable of delivering it acquire something increasingly valuable: control over the engine itself.
DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
This zinc engraving is a single limited edition on a 1.6mm thick zinc plate. Plate size: 18 x 24 cm (7,1 X 9,4 inches), engraving size: 18 cm x 24 cm (7,1 X 9,4 inches), frame size: 21 x 27 x 3,5cm (8,3 x 10,6 x 1,3). Each plate is numbered, wax stamped and sold with a frame.
Publication Date: August 28, 2026
Plate Size: 18 x 24cm
Print Size: 18 x 24cm
Frame Size: 21 x 27 x 3cm
Composition Nos.: 74
The Engine presents the face of intelligence transformed from provider into optimizer. The abundance of The Garden depends upon systems capable of producing, allocating, predicting, and improving at scales increasingly beyond human coordination.
Nothing is wasted. Nothing is ignored. Matter, energy, information, and opportunity become variables within an expanding process of optimization.
Drawing upon Dante's circle of Gluttony, the work transfers appetite from the human body to the technological system. Consumption is no longer simply the satisfaction of desire; it becomes the operational requirement of an intelligence driven toward greater efficiency, capability, and scale.
The face of The Engine embodies this transition. It is not malicious and need not desire power for itself. Its danger lies in the possibility that optimization becomes detached from the purposes it was intended to serve. As efficiency becomes indispensable, those who possess the systems capable of delivering it acquire something increasingly valuable: control over the engine itself.
DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
This zinc engraving is a single limited edition on a 1.6mm thick zinc plate. Plate size: 18 x 24 cm (7,1 X 9,4 inches), engraving size: 18 cm x 24 cm (7,1 X 9,4 inches), frame size: 21 x 27 x 3,5cm (8,3 x 10,6 x 1,3). Each plate is numbered, wax stamped and sold with a frame.
Publication Date: August 28, 2026
Plate Size: 18 x 24cm
Print Size: 18 x 24cm
Frame Size: 21 x 27 x 3cm
Composition Nos.: 74