Palpable Mass is an aggregate of breaking news alerts, headlines, and top stories collected during the first 100 days of the 47th presidency, January 20 – April 29, 2025. Printed on transparency film and stacked in sequence, the overlaid text creates a single illegible mass. As the layers are lifted, each caption comes into view, allowing space to slow down, synthesize information, and see patterns emerge within events. In a flood of news, this work serves as a tool to wade through the muck.

Palpable Mass is printed with archival pigment ink on premium Pictorico transparency film with open source Inter type for legibility and similarity to headline fonts. All quotes are cited and indexed. 

Edition of 35
2026

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