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
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
Cathode Anatomy
A Record from the Wrong Century
A Scoured Ledger
State: Intact
A Shape Held in Consensus
Drift Correction
A Structural Fallback
A coarse,
A Load-Bearing System Built From
A dense, all-over grid of uniform,
Weight of the Current
The Composition Features
A Held Breath
An Incomplete Transmission
A Report on Planetary Rhythm, and
A Well-Kept Ruin
A Way Out of the Room
A Market of Known Bugs
The Drowning Machine
The Simplest Possible Refusal
An Orderly Defiance
It Cannot Describe the Wound
Geology of the Crowd
Physiological Echo Chamber