Systems

Works exploring systems as interacting structures whose functions respond to change, uncertainty, perturbation and adaptation.

Black-and-white conceptual image representing systems, observation and internal functional structures.
Conscience, Transformation & Adaptation

The Larson Code

10 September 2026 Ralph Larson

Ralph Larson · Independent Edition Introspective Narrative · Conscience, Transformation & Adaptation About the work The Larson Code explores a practical question that appears after observation: Once a person has recognised the systems, patterns, contradictions […]

Black-and-white image of a crowd using mobile phones with one figure behaving independently.
Everyday Systems

Fifth Column

10 September 2026 Ralph Larson

Ralph Larson · Independent Edition Introspective Narrative · Everyday Systems About the work Fifth Column explores the possibility of autonomy from within a system. The individual remains connected. He uses the same technologies, moves through […]

Black-and-white image of a crowd looking at mobile phones beneath a dominant digital interface.
Everyday Systems

The New Obedience

10 September 2026 Ralph Larson

Ralph Larson · Independent Edition Introspective Narrative · Everyday Systems About the work The New Obedience explores a form of everyday obedience that does not depend upon visible authority, explicit instructions or direct coercion. Contemporary […]

Black-and-white landscape with a solitary figure looking toward a distant horizon.
Memory, Displacement & Reconstruction

The Last Horizon

10 September 2026 Ralph Larson

Ralph Larson · Independent Edition Introspective Narrative · Memory, Displacement & Reconstruction About the work The Last Horizon explores the horizon as a boundary of observation. A horizon appears to mark the point at which […]

Black-and-white image of a Trabant travelling along a foggy mountain road.
Memory, Displacement & Reconstruction

The Invisible Road

10 September 2026 Ralph Larson

Ralph Larson · Independent Edition Introspective Narrative · Memory, Displacement & Reconstruction About the work The Invisible Road explores the relationship between physical movement and internal transformation. A journey can be described through roads, distances, […]

Black-and-white Berlin cityscape with reflections and systemic graphic elements.
Memory, Displacement & Reconstruction

Reflected Voices: Berlin 1925

9 September 2026 Ralph Larson

Ralph Larson · Independent Edition Introspective Narrative · Memory, Displacement & Reconstruction About the work Reflected Voices: Berlin 2025 explores what happens when an observer returns to a place that has already become part of […]

Black-and-white night scene of a Trabant travelling through Berlin toward the television tower.
Memory, Displacement & Reconstruction

Trabant Nights

9 September 2026 Eban Abogados

Ralph Larson · Independent Edition Introspective Narrative · Memory, Displacement & Reconstruction About the work Trabant Nights is an introspective travel narrative about movement, memory and the changing position of the observer. Its landscape is […]

Black-and-white architectural image representing fracture, repair and reconnection.
Conscience, Transformation & Adaptation

Making Amends

9 September 2026 Ralph Larson

Ralph Larson · Independent Edition Introspective Narrative · Conscience, Transformation & Adaptation About the work Making Amends explores what happens when an internal system recognises that it has participated in the production of damage. The […]

Black-and-white conceptual image of rigid structures transforming into a new geometric configuration.
Conscience, Transformation & Adaptation

Metanoia

9 September 2026 Ralph Larson

Ralph Larson · Independent Edition Introspective Narrative · Conscience, Transformation & Adaptation About the work Metanoia explores transformation after the internal configuration that once organised experience can no longer be maintained. Its starting point is […]

Black-and-white image of a solitary figure waiting in a modernist terminal.
Silence, Expectation & Interpretation

At Four

9 September 2026 Ralph Larson

Ralph Larson · Independent Edition Introspective Narrative · Silence, Expectation & Interpretation About the work At Four explores the moment when expectation becomes attached to a specific point in time. An event is expected at […]