An Image I Found Online and Liked in Red

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 Red — the title IS the artist statement. No mystification, no poetic distance: this is what happened. Sebi found an image online, liked it, and fed it through the machine. The honesty is radical in a market that rewards enigmatic titles and origin myths. The "in Red" exists because there's a Blue version too — same source, different ink, different temperature. The repetition turns a single act of liking into serial thinking about beauty: how does the same image shift when you change the colour? Warhol's screen print variations asked the same question — Marilyn in blue, Marilyn in gold.

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