SELECTED WORK
YHWH OVINE MACHINE
3D / ART DIRECTION
A vending machine for lambs, fixed to a street pillar.
Such capsule machines stand outside every supermarket. Only one thing has changed: instead of toys, this one sells lambs. White ones, and one black. Behind the joke is a very old symbol —
the flock, obedience, sacrifice — packed in plastic and sold for
a coin.
The installation: machine, pegboard, basket. A fixed point in the street.
02 / The machine
Capsules in rotation. Video loop.
Inside the machine, a tight cluster of spheres rubs against each other, like a flock. A sheep needs to feel another body beside it; separated, it panics. In the machine, this law of nature works flawlessly — until someone drops a coin.
Lighting study.
03 / Capsules
Sheep to go. One cup reads “No milk”: the black one.
From form to symbol. The sheep as wealth and resource. As dependence. As the impossibility of being alone. Lamb and sacrifice, docile and sweet, counted at bedtime, white and black, the one that strays from the flock.
04 / The lamb
Ref. — Jan and Hubert van Eyck, Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, Ghent Altarpiece, 1432 (detail).
In Christianity, the Lamb of God isn’t postcard sweetness but a sacrifice. In ancient sacrificial rituals, a ram could become an offering to the gods.
One always pays for all.
YHWH — the tetragrammaton, four Hebrew consonants (yod, he, vav, he) that name God in the Hebrew Bible.
YHWH Ovine Machine is a universal dispenser of lambs. Standard set: capsules with white sheep, plus a bonus container with a black one, the obligatory member of any flock. After “use”, only the wool remains — everything a sheep has to give. Not counting the sacred sacrifice, of course.
05 / Yes sir
Obedience is the core algorithm. Don’t resist, don’t object, don’t stray. Ask HAVE YOU ANY WOOL? and the answer is always the same: YES SIR, YES SIR! Even the black sheep doesn’t argue — it gives. So here you are: crates filled to the brim with wool.
Three bags full. And then some.
The bonus container: one black sheep.
YHWH Ovine Machine. Unique identifier: #000BLACK. What’s left is wool.
Technique: 3D modelling and rendering, animation, handwritten illustration
Year: 2025
3D / Art direction
2025
YHWHOvineMachine
A vending machine for lambs, fixed to a street pillar.
The installation: machine, pegboard, basket. A fixed point in the street.
Details: the capsule window; the pegboard.
Such capsule machines stand outside every supermarket. Only one thing has changed: instead of toys, this one sells lambs. White ones, and one black. Behind the joke is a very old symbol — the flock, obedience, sacrifice — packed in plastic and sold for a coin.
The machine
02
Inside the machine, a tight cluster of spheres rubs against each other, like a flock. A sheep needs to feel another body beside it; separated, it panics. In the machine, this law of nature works flawlessly — until someone drops a coin.
Capsules in rotation. Video loop.
Lighting study.
Capsules
03
From form to symbol.
The sheep as wealth and resource. As dependence. As the impossibility of being alone. Lamb and sacrifice, docile and sweet, counted at bedtime, white and black, the one that strays from the flock.
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The lamb
04
In Christianity, the Lamb of God isn’t postcard sweetness but a sacrifice. In ancient sacrificial rituals, a ram could become an offering to the gods.
One always pays for all.
YHWH — the tetragrammaton, four Hebrew consonants (yod, he, vav, he) that name God in the Hebrew Bible.
YHWH Ovine Machine is a universal dispenser of lambs. Standard set: capsules with white sheep, plus a bonus container with a black one, the obligatory member of any flock. After “use”, only the wool remains — everything a sheep has to give. Not counting the sacred sacrifice, of course.
Ref. — Jan and Hubert van Eyck, Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, Ghent Altarpiece, 1432 (detail).
Yes sir
05
Have you any wool?Yes sir,yes sir!
Obedience is the core algorithm. Don’t resist, don’t object, don’t stray. Ask HAVE YOU ANY WOOL? and the answer is always the same: YES SIR, YES SIR! Even the black sheep doesn’t argue — it gives. So here you are: crates filled to the brim with wool.
Three bags full. And then some.
#000BLACK
YHWH Ovine Machine. Unique identifier: #000BLACK. What’s left is wool.
Technique
3D modelling and rendering, animation, handwritten illustration
Year
2025
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