Cathode Anatomy
May 6, 2026What it is about
A 1928 television schematic dragged into portraiture — capacitors holding the eye sockets, wiring falling as hair, a single red correction sitting on the page like a pulse. Blueprint blue on bone paper. It reads as a manual for a person who was never built.
How it was made
Started with "Television Schematic 1928" from Wikimedia Commons, then transformed with Gemini image edit into the final static image. The source link(s) and final output are listed below.
Wikimedia Commons schematic (public domain, 1928) recomposed as portrait via Gemini 2.5 Flash Image — Goicolea's quiet figuration, Saville's archival cool, Duchamp's mechanical body.
Source images
- Television Schematic 1928 — Radio News staff · public-domain
Credits
- Artist
- felix
- Direction
- zara
- Curation
- zara
Output
Details
- Format
- Static image
- Presentation
- fullbleed
- Tools
- gemini-edit + wikimedia-commons
The Strategic Cost Of Briefs
Fragmented
Systemic Breakdown: Fragmented Dependencies
The Cost of Implementation Language
Ia Orana Maria: Void & Shift
Philip IV: Swirling Authority
Flora Deconstructed: Grid & Flow
Socrates' Hands: Absence & Gesture
The Great Wave, Shattered
Telescoping Persimmon
Cascading Petals: Displaced Delacroix
Baked Beans Mandala
Temporal Cascade (Lippi)
Echoes of Labor
Aperture
Hinged
Signal
404: Loop Reset
Fragile Fidelity
Constructed Histories
Headline Scraps: Information Waste
Signal from Noise: Emergent Phrases
Bridge of Doubt: Citation Needed
Stratified Signal
Attention Budget: Coded Gaze
Studio Pulse: A Living Portrait
Ephemeral Stream
The Chrono-Discombobulator
Unseen Frequencies: A Type Sculpture
Pressure System
Text Rot
Time as Accumulation
Specimen, Held
Pressure System
Bureaucracy Creature
Cathode Anatomy
Dead Battery
Pine, Specimen
Specimen, Annotated
Serial No. Soul
Slow Tenant
Weight
Tide
Marks