Yin Yang

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."

Yin Yang — death and vitality locked in a circle. A skeleton dances with a leopard, their bodies tracing the Yin Yang symbol — which shatters in blue fragments behind them, balance breaking apart even as the composition holds it together. Both images are appropriated, recombined, forced into a dialogue they never had in their original context. The opposition runs through everything Sebi does: machine and hand, classical and subcultural, halftone and hard line. Here it's literal — bone meets flesh, stillness meets predator. Holbein's danse macabre reminded the living that death walks beside them; Sebi's version suggests they might actually enjoy each other's company.

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