Axis 03

The Objects

Preservation & Provenance

The problem of authenticity: how creation is protected from erasure, appropriation, and misattribution across time.

Projects

Prototype

Pulse Proof

Hardware prototype — live session recording with real-time ambient + geo-fenced temporal data encryption.

Thread
Protects musician IP against AI scraping using the oldest proof mechanism: presence in time and place.

Proofed

Tarot Deck (1400-1800)

78-card symbolic map of transformative events across Europe, Mediterranean, and Americas over four centuries.

Thread
Four centuries of civilizational inflection points encoded in a portable symbolic system.

POC

Ancient Currency Installation

Lydian electrum → Persian conquest → Roman standardization. Greek pottery aesthetic, laser-cut fabrication.

Thread
The entire history of trust-in-value rendered as a physical art object.

Makerspace Art

Ideas Made Physical

CNC, 3D print, laser cut, plasma cut, traditional woodwork — physical instantiation of intellectual concepts. The Meridian Cross stamped on objects that exist in the world.