| The only genomic painted on paper, Simone de Beauvoir measures just 8" x 10"—a compact work created for a benefit auction. Its scale is modest, but its logic is precise. The canvas moves through ornamental bands, mechanical diagrams, halftone portraiture, and chromatic drift. The central face—rendered in green dots against red—feels vintage, stylized, and emotionally suspended. It’s not Beauvoir. It’s a placeholder. A speculative relation. A visual echo of inheritance that remains unresolved.
To the left, floral and mechanical motifs thread decorative and industrial logics into the field. To the right, what first appears as drapery is revealed as an anatomical diagram—coded, clinical, and quietly disruptive. The genome here is compressed, but active. Each band a signal. Each texture a fragment of symbolic recursion.
Simone de Beauvoir distills scale. A paper-based genomic designed for public offering, where intimacy, mutation, and philosophical critique converge in miniature.
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