Lily

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."

Lily — Aphrodite in double exposure, the bust shifting from red ink on one side to blue on the other in a soft gradient. A lily sits on top of the composition — purity in Christian painting, desire in Greek myth, layered over the goddess who embodies both. Manet gave Olympia a bouquet to signal what couldn't be said aloud; Sebi gives Aphrodite a lily and lets the ballpoint do the talking.

Follow Sebi Schager on Instagram

About the artist