Golden Ratio with Girl and Horse

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."

Golden Ratio with Girl and Horse — the title names its ingredients like a recipe. A snail shell in blue with an atlas figure inscribed inside it — the spiral as golden ratio made literal, the bearer of the world trapped in geometry. A horse in red, a manga beauty in blue. What sets this piece apart within the series is its graphic language: barely any halftone, almost pure line work. Where other compositions in Thx for the Brush dissolve into double-exposure blends, here the overlapping elements stay hard-edged, densely collaged, cut rather than faded. Da Vinci filled notebooks with spirals and anatomical studies side by side; Sebi's plotter does the same, just faster and without the mirror writing.

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