Floating Alone
February 2021 ––Having worked closely together for years at the legendary Autofuss / Bot & Dolly Collective, and also serving a four year stint as next door neighbors in San Francisco’s sunny Potrero Hill neighborhood, their relationship was both creatively fulfilling and brotherly. The drop was in part a celebration of their relationship over the years, and also their aligned aesthetic in the spheres of Optics, Emission and Illumination, Refraction and their forever obsession with the Specular.

The Story
This vessel was cast away into the vast empty abyss, floating alone, with only the memories of its origin, the love and pain of an entire planetary society to keep it company. For ages this body floated through space, replaying its history over and over again...reaching out for help. For milleniums it waded through black waters with nothing in sight. The few moments that it passed by anything with mass it cried out in numerical pings and filtered tones, grasping for hope.
Millions of years later the satellite was found… when the data was recovered, all that remained of the consciousness was a series of beautiful repeating patterns, a primal encoding mutated by the compression of the void. A million year meditation on life evolved into visual, geometric poetry.
Inspired by this story, GMUNK teamed up with his longtime collaborator Bedtimes to construct the essence of the satellite’s degraded consciousness - achieved by the filtering of various light sources through prisms and captured via optical anomalies - to initiate participants into these signals of solitude.
This auction ran through Nifty Gateway
Friday, February 19th 2021
oculus.obscura
Edition of 10
Purchased for $1,500
Director: GMUNK
Digital Artist: GMUNK
Composer: Bedtimes
Cinematographer: Joe Picard
Production Designer: Conor Grebel
Production Designer: Mike Williams
LED Technology: Symmetry Labs
Munky’s Grid.
1999 –– 2025The Grid is a mosaic of the creative profile. It is the flowchart of output –– the pulse of pursuit. Each entry is a memory, an arc of emotion; a creative fulfullment with vivid learnings and an enduring imprint.
The Grid is the totality of the flow.