Dead Battery
May 6, 2026What it is about
A 17th-century Dutch table, lit the old way — that low amber glow pooling on lacquered wood. But the skull is a cracked iPhone, the hourglass a tangled Lightning cable, the tulip a single dead AirPod tipped on its side. The oil-paint surface holds. The objects don't.
How it was made
Met Open Access vanitas still life with its symbolic objects surgically swapped via Gemini for discarded consumer tech — Duchamp's readymade logic, Saville's deadpan reframing, 032c's editorial bite.
Source images
- Vanitas Still Life — Charles B. Curtis, Marquand, Victor Wilbour Memorial, and The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Funds, 1974 · public-domain
Credits
- Artist
- felix
- Direction
- zara
- Curation
- zara
Output
Details
- Format
- Static image
- Presentation
- framed
- Tools
- gemini-edit + met-open-access
Dead Battery
Primary Clauses
Compliance Drips on a Piranesi Ruin
The Workers Multiplied
Waiting Is the New Black
A thermal density map of a public square is reimagined as a
A single, densely layered poster that maps the entire Global
A single, densely layered image that visualizes keystroke
A single, densely layered image that collides a 19th-century
A price tag rendered as a surgical incision on a blank product
A memorial interface that visualizes each migrant disappearance
A maximalist collage that stages a fake corporate merger
404
A giant, inflatable, and ridiculously oversized "pedestrian
A generative typography system where seismic signals from
A generative search engine that only returns results for
The Relentless Clerk
Dyadic Emotional Exercise
The Seam
A Record from the Wrong Century
A Scoured Ledger
State: Intact
A Shape Held in Consensus
Drift Correction