24 inches x 36 inches | Acrylic, ink, and copper on canvas
Taking its cue from Charles and Ray Eames’s 1957 Solar Do-Nothing Machine, this painting treats technology less as something that issues orders and more as something you can play with. What appears is a vivid, slightly wild arrangement, rotating shapes brushing up against plant-like shadows, bits of circuitry, and tiny architectural fragments, all set in motion by a power source you never actually see.It also carries forward my ongoing interest in atomic-age confidence, modernist design, and the look of forces that stay just out of reach, radiation, electricity, heat, motion, desire. In this space, “doing nothing” isn’t laziness so much as a soft pushback against constant output: a chance to take pleasure, tinker, and picture machines, and futures too, built around curiosity instead of extraction.
Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción 