Replacement Character series explores selfhood and surveillance through a custom-built hybrid machine that merges a document scanner and a 4×6-foot plotter. Each work begins with a full-body scan made by this “plotter-scanner,” producing images that are simultaneously clinical and intimate. The resulting large-scale prints show the body at life-size but fractured and reassembled from overlapping scans—mirroring the fragmented way we appear online.

Presented as both physical prints and NFTs, the series examines how identity is recorded, reproduced, and rendered by intelligent machines. The title references the “�” symbol—a placeholder for unreadable data—inviting reflection on technological obsolescence and the instability of digital self-representation. Each work exists as a high-resolution physical print accompanied by its on-chain counterpart, reinforcing Shannon’s investigation into the tension between the material and the virtual.

Produced for Bright Moments Paris, Lightbreak is an exploration of light reflection and refraction. The algorithm used allows for an extension beyond the typical behaviors of light, including allowing light to reflect off itself, with each piece mapping out different outcomes. The works are reactive, and respond to curser interaction.

“Watching a DVD logo bounce around a tv, our inclination is to predict where it will go. There is a well-defined process of particle and boundary that makes this possible. But what if the particle and boundary were the same? If there was no distinction, if a point could reflect against its own history, if a ray could change its conditions as it experiences them? If light could interact with itself and countless others simultaneously in a fractalized infinity, shaped by time, giving structure to time itself — where might it end up?”