Origins A forty-year, self-taught path through architecture, publishing, and code converges in paint — Carstens applies everything he’s learned since birth to every canvas.
The Divisionist Lineage — Rebuilt Seurat once broke colour into dots; today Algorithmic Divisionism breaks images into equations — The eye finishes what the artist starts.
Materials and Process Pigmented acrylic ink, layered through an adapted vinyl pochoir technique, builds each piece into a dense, luminous, plexiglass-like surface.
Algorithmic Divisionism An inquiry into perception itself — how randomness resolves into pattern, and pattern dissolves back into randomness, in the eye of the viewer.