Pew! Pew!

Sebi works across spray stencils, robotic pen drawing, gold leaf, and digital collage — his practice moves between appropriation and reinvention, art-historical imagery taken apart, digitally recombined, then brought back into physical form. Manus et Machina continues where Thx for the Brush left off — but here, the human hand returns after the machine has drawn. Each piece begins as a robotic pen drawing from a digital collage, then receives layers of spray paint, crayon, and gold leaf applied by hand. The result is a dialogue between precision and gesture, algorithm and instinct. Silhouette and halftone raster compete for the viewer's attention in a perceptual toggle — you see one or the other, rarely both at once. The gold leaf adds a final layer: eternity meeting impermanence, icon meeting street.

Pew! Pew! — the sound of play that turns into consequences. Two handgun silhouettes in red halftone, arranged like a Yin Yang — mirrored, interlocking, one completing the other. Inside them, a couple lies in bed, bodies pressed together, intimacy rasterized into the weapons' contours. Gold leaf drips from the barrels, something precious leaving the body of something dangerous. The title mimics the playful, the flirtatious, the sexual — finger guns across a bar, the game before the game — but every game has an outcome the players didn't plan for. Lichtenstein painted comic-book explosions at gallery scale, turning violence into decoration; here the decoration holds a lovers' bed, and "Pew! Pew!" keeps going until something new begins.

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