| This canvas continues the genomic experiment in reduced scale and altered structure. Titled
Joe Montana, it omits the Tarot band entirely and replaces the portrait with an image of President Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill. The substitution is deliberate: a face not chosen for lineage, but for circulation. Jackson’s presence evokes questions of value, legacy, and the strange ways identity becomes
commodified.
The surrounding vertical bands shimmer with gradients, floral outlines, schematic drawings, and camouflage textures—visual echoes of mutation, concealment, and encoded experience. The genomic logic remains intact, but the tone shifts.
Joe Montana doesn’t ask who you resemble—it asks what systems you’re embedded in, and what faces you inherit not through blood, but through culture, currency, and myth.
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