Max Guy
Becoming Imperceptible ((Dₙ/50)²) (2025)
Inkjet print, collage
239.40" x 88" inches

The symbol that isn't working in my equation is a "small n," Unicode U+2099. It communicates the scale relationship between the first image printed at 50DPI to the left and all subsequent images printed. I had Chat GPT make this drawing of the growth for you. But mostly this work is about... shrinking myself conceptually. Becoming imperceptible in the Deleuze-Guattarian sense, and not being seen in the Hito Steyerl sense.

In summer 2015 I started to practice austerity measures in my graduate school studio, no longer buying materials, investing in the books, printing and scanning technology I'd accumulated. Scanning became a tool to reconcile my literary interests with other sculpture and print ideas.

Specifically, a scanner is a camera designed to read. With a scanner, resolution (DPI) mechanically emulates a reader's experience of spacetime, and so I experiment with movement and kinetic energy on the surface. The challenge then was how to output the photographs, and so I set up a logarithm for printing, based on the first 50DPI image scanned and moving upward. 50DPI is the smallest resolution my EPSON V600 will scan. 

Each image represents a decisive move in a game I play with the machine.