The seeing machine as 440,918,749 points – the view from the Ingham County Youth Detention Center, Lansing, Michigan #1
The seeing machine as 440,918,749 points – the view from the Ingham County Youth Detention Center, Lansing, Michigan #2 installed at The Behind the Cloud exhibition in 2023, curated by Marissa Del Toro & Alex Santana for The Latinx project.
Cyclorama, 3.6’ x 28.5’ high-resolution photographic print derived from color Lidar data scans, conduit, paint
10’ x 10’ x 8’
2022
The seeing machine as 440,918,749 points – the view from the Ingham County Youth Detention Center, Lansing, Michigan #1 subverts carceral surveillance technologies to create a haunted and ghostly document of the architectures of youth prisons, reflecting on the perpetuity of the school-to-prison gateway, hidden in plain sight.
This work, presented as a high-resolution photographic print hung in the round, invites viewers to step inside and be surrounded by the image. This gesture nods to both Jeremy Bentham’s panoptical prison architecture and the history of cycloramas—large-scale immersive paintings popularized in the 19th century that often celebrated scenes of colonial and imperial conquest, an early form of immersive VR. The gigapixel panoramic image was rendered using custom software, and was created from data collected from a series of 3D color LIDAR scans taken around the perimeter of the Ingham County Youth Detention Center in Lansing, Michigan.
ongoing collaboration with Ava Aviva Avnisan
exhibited at:
Michigan State University’s Scene Gallery
Kent State University’s Design Innovation Gallery
Stove Works Gallery in Chattanooga, TN
Latinx Project at NYU
The seeing machine as 440,918,749 points – the view from the Ingham County Youth Detention Center, Lansing, Michigan #3 installed at of sight, of mind exhibition at Vulpes Bastille, 2026