After figuring out a new effect that wasn't automated but wasn't exactly just drawing either, I started calling it "wrecking" in my filenames. I wrecked a lot of images trying to find some that felt just right, and it was only once I started collaborating with Salmon Matte Studios that this look really hit its stride as a form by itself and not mixed with other techniques or other visual vocabulary. motherboard_mash (a four part series) is an inverted composition from our first connection (technological_iris) and has very subtly more complex wrecking. The frames of this series are using the "chill" algorithm (read: pixelheap by volfegan).

Symbolically (if you're into that kind of thing) downward triangles are power transfers from higher principles to lower ones. Feels made up to me, but the original series was called monster mash - and the titles are always technology + original acrylic piece name, so "motherboard_mash" is power being received from mother principles, it looks like a circuitboard, and it vibes pretty hard. This has been one of my most popular series on instagram from 2020.