An Image I Found Online and Liked in Blue

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. The Thx for the Brush series extends the painter's space with robotic tools: compositions emerge from digital collages, cutouts, and elements that develop directly on the paper — the work builds up on the sheet as much as it arrives from the screen. Many follow the Wheel of Fortune — Sebi collects thematic image sets from art history, pop culture, and the internet, runs them through the randomizer, and lets unexpected constellations emerge. The plotter translates, but the encounter between pen and paper introduces variables neither artist nor machine fully controls — ink pools, skips, bleeds. Tinguely built drawing machines to question authorship in 1959; Sebi's plotter picks up that thread sixty years later. "The miracle has already happened once something is physically manifested."

An Image I Found Online and Liked in Blue — the blue counterpart to the Red version, same radical transparency in the title. The color shift changes the temperature entirely: where red implies urgency, passion, blood, blue introduces distance, melancholy, digital screens. Same method, same honesty, different frequency. The two pieces together form a diptych of internet-age appropriation — color-coded, serial, unapologetic.

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