Pentium Chip
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2023
Collection: Playful Abstraction
Pentium Chip (2023) is a visual homage to complexity — a painting that translates the logic and chaos of circuitry into an abstract poetic field. This 48 x 48 inch mixed media work from the Playful Abstraction Collection plays with geometry, layering, and digital symbolism in tactile form.
The surface is gridded but irregular — interlaced lines, color-coded blocks, metallic ink, and traces of binary-like patterns. Tones of electric green, graphite black, silver, and data-glow blue pulse across the canvas, mimicking the rhythm of a processor thinking, stalling, surging.
I created Pentium Chip as a nod to the invisible architecture of modern life — how silicon and logic gates govern our world while remaining unseen. But this painting isn’t technical. It’s intuitive. It maps sensation, not code.
The work resonates with the aesthetic of Casey Reas, co-creator of Processing, whose generative artworks translate software into abstraction. Like Reas, I am interested in what happens when algorithms become emotional — when structure breaks into expression.
Pentium Chip doesn’t explain technology. It interprets it. It lets the grid breathe, stutter, misfire. The result is not a diagram, but a dream of one.
As part of the Playful Abstraction Collection, this piece celebrates the strange intimacy we now have with systems. It doesn’t warn or glorify. It just listens, clicks, and glows.
