Created: 2025
Released: 10 October 2026
From the series: Construct Destiny
Edition: The Vista Edition
Edition Type: Unlimited Open Edition
Medium: Archival pigment print
Process: Giclée on fine art textured silk paper (279gsm)
Size: A0, A1, A2, A3, A4

The Green Room by JackSash is a soul searching meditation on the cycles of innovation and the swirling forces of human progress. Borrowing its name from the surfer’s tube inside a barrel wave, the work positions technological and cultural milestones within a vast vortex that invites us to imagine human progress. The spiralling forms, with their menacing metallic coils and cascading binary digits, draw the viewer into a maelstrom where past and future collapse into a single continuum.

The inclusion of pianos, Galileo’s telescope, hot air balloons, and early black-and-white cinema interlace artistic, scientific and exploratory triumphs within the storm. These objects become debris carried by the tide of binary code, suggesting that our cultural heritage is now inextricably bound to the logic of computation. The red, serpent-like structure winding through the scene evokes both organic vitality and latent menace that hints at the double-edged nature of technological advancement. In this way, The Green Room visualizes the sublime tension of standing inside the barrel of history itself in a moment of beauty, awe, and danger, where humanity is swept forward by forces larger than itself, with no certainty of what waits beyond the crashing wave.