the pantheon

everything that exists, measured out and catalogued. each piece is the original. there are no prints.

A dark marble museum wall with a long horizontal row of small brass placards connected by a single gold thread. — Pl. iiinstallation view. the works themselves are off-frame, where the artist prefers them. the thread holds the wall together, structurally and morally.

we searched for the roadmap. we found a sticky note. we honored it.

— Strategic Review, Q2

Permanent Collection

8 works · all media8 · all media

untitled (web app)

acquired by no one. status: live, alone.

2024

mixed media, despair, typescript. · on view, indefinitely

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a tool built to solve a problem that the artist alone has experienced.

2024

react, postgres, three browser tabs of stack overflow. · operational; unloved

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shipped to production at 4:11 a.m. has had two (2) human users, both related to the artist.

2023

next.js, tailwind, and the cold hum of the macbook fan. · live

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the framework changed three times. the requirements did not.

2023

vue, briefly. svelte, briefly. back to react, in shame. · live; haunted

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made in an afternoon for a friend who later said, with kindness, that they had not actually needed it.

2022

html, css, hubris. · live, out of politeness

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originally a side project. then the main project. then a side project again.

2022

edge functions, sqlite, exhaustion. · live; demoted

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automates a task the artist performs once per year. roi: pending.

2021

python, twilio, a phone number nobody calls. · live; patient

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the database is technically working. the artist will not be discussing the bill.

2021

firebase. later, regret. · live; expensive

forty projects. five thousand commits. one laptop running at the temperature of a small star.

— Thermal Review

their commit messages range from “fix” to “fix fix” to, on one occasion, a single semicolon.

— Git Log, Volume IV

every project is six weekends from done. it has been six weekends from done for seven years.

— A Calendar, Weeping

Q1: ship. Q2: ship. Q3: rewrite. Q4: apologize.

— The Roadmap, found in a drawer

the deck was beautiful. the product was beautiful. the founder was asleep.

— An Investor, hypothetically

Acquisitions Policy

the institution acquires only what the artist makes for themself. donations of ideas are gratefully declined.