Philly, my cat machine is coming to you!
"Insert 25 Cents to Feel Something" is in a CFEVA show opening January 22. (I'm sorry to miss the reception!)
Chris Combs
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Artist in Washington, DC and Mount Rainier, MD. My art both incorporates and questions technologies. chriscombs.net
![Mr. Musk’s team did not get into the [U.S. Institute for Peace] building until officers from Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department showed up, Ms. Lin said. Institute officials had called the police to report that Department of Government Efficiency members were trespassing, she said, but the police instead cleared institute leaders from the building.
A police spokesman, Tom Lynch, said that officers were called to the scene on a report of an unlawful entry and said the police left after the people who were seeking unlawful entry had left. He did not say who those people were or provide more information on what happened at the scene aside from the fact that no arrests had been made.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bvrwrmfh5xf37lc4k7ylyjl7/bafkreiaos2dmdt2g2augoedczaso3jr53xpbqup4x5gb5afsfwmbsgkhoa)
![Wikipedia article for "Invidia": In Latin, invidia is the sense of envy, a "looking upon" associated with the evil eye, from invidere, "to look against, to look in a hostile manner."[1] Invidia ("Envy") is one of the Seven Deadly Sins in Christian belief.
(Along with a picture of a statue grimacing)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bvrwrmfh5xf37lc4k7ylyjl7/bafkreiaq2ttpt3f5fzryfzglvkkj77adafcnjqdmkjeo2qrogjb5ceikje)
!["Modern usage of the term
The name of the Nvidia Corporation comes from Invidia in Roman mythology.[18]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bvrwrmfh5xf37lc4k7ylyjl7/bafkreidtlihts34t3rxrw3npebtuxh3ykiv3n5no3lteejuimdbpqlvuz4)
![Screenshot of a Post article with this text: "Those are by the prolific Chris Combs, who shows often locally. The more striking of the two is “S(p)lash,” a long, skinny LED matrix set at a diagonal. Within the piece’s skinny confines, pixels conjure watery motion. The ever-changing display can merely suggest ripples and waves but sometimes depicts such recognizable features as a waterfall. Oddly, this high-tech fabrication is the show’s most bucolic entry.
[Picture of a painting by Susan Ragland, “Face 34.” It shows a dark-skinned woman with a white afro, bright red lips, and frenetic, gnarled earrings, one star-shaped and the other like a planet or ball of yarn. She is set against a green background.]
Among the other better-known participants are Pat Goslee, Helen Zughaib, Anne Bouie and Ceci Cole McInturff. Goslee makes vibrant semi-abstractions that encompass representational imagery such as the stenciled flowers of “Natural State.” The Beirut-born Zughaib’s contributions include a black-and-white mandala of concentric rings interspersed with the Arabic words for “peace” and “home” inscribed repeatedly in circular calligraphy. Bouie and McInturff incorporate biological relics — a deer skull and bird wings, respectively — into assemblages that possess a talismanic power."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bvrwrmfh5xf37lc4k7ylyjl7/bafkreifmxbfnlpgrb7i6do22li72fgs4gn5n3yhi7ef7myt47n4um7ylha)
