A FACE FOR THE SUN
Video, 2025
About the artwork
The Threshold State investigates the constant, fluid negotiation between our internal world and our external performance. Using the city and its architecture as a symbol for societal pressures, the work delves into the facades we construct to exist within these systems. Human forms dissolve into buildings and streets, visualizing the tension between our authentic, private psyche and the public persona demanded by the outside world. This collection exists on the boundary between the conscious and the subconscious, asking a poignant question: In a world of concrete and code, how much of what we present as "self" is a genuine reflection, and how much is a reflection of the world itself?
Sound Design curated and generated by c0ok3d
Audio explanation
Listen to c0ok3d discuss this work.
c0ok3d is a digital artist whose work merges code, AI diffusion models, and 3D techniques to explore the evolving relationship between identity and the structures that shape our lives. Through illuminating compositions and generative processes, c0ok3d guides randomness to find signals within noise. His work explores our paradoxical modern existence: isolated yet interconnected, exhausted yet transformed by the very systems we create.