*Homemade napalm, resin, choreographed LED lighting, charred artist-made frame
195 × 17.5 × 4 cm

*Delegate operates as a suspended body double, scaled according to a speculative physiology of the artists body, shaped by orbital birth rather than terrestrial gravity. The surface is composed of burned homemade napalm residue preserved in resin and contained within a charred, artist-adapted frame derived from a natural history museum.

Napalm is a synthetic material whose historical function is inseparable from surveillance and warfare. Developed to clear rainforest terrain for aerial visibility, its deployment against civilian populations constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. The specific formulation used by the artist circulated through peer-to-peer networks during the early internet, situating the material within a lineage of military technologies that migrate into quotidian life, including GPS. Within this framework, the horizon line is displaced, altering perceptual relationships to the Earth’s surface.

Choreographed lighting follows the 90-minute orbital cadence of the International Space Station, functioning as a timepiece calibrated to distance rather than proximity. Using scale and abstraction, the work presents a body as landscape under reorganized conditions of observation. Resin fixes the desolation of violence at a remove, and the frame enforces a mode of examination that renders the body as an object of study.