This August in Times Square, a shifting landscape of golden lines cascades across the screens at a massive scale in Scott Eaton’s Intersections. With sharp angles and glowing hues that intermittently evoke Art Deco architecture and the layered street grids of New York City, the kaleidoscopic networks of Intersections seem to have no beginning or end, unifying the disparate displays as the work takes over Times Square.

The dramatically evolving geometry comes from a simple source: a single QR code for an event long past that Eaton found without context in an alleyway. A reminder of our data-saturated contemporary existence, the source image was animated, distorted, and processed through endless iterations of geometric abstraction and machine learning until the original starting point was completely obscured - just as a seed is unrecognizable in the plant it becomes. Set among the displays of Times Square and their layers of electronic information, the result is a meditation on the complexity and unknowability of the digital landscapes that surround us.

Scott Eaton’s work marks the second in a series of four Midnight Moments presented in partnership with Meta through 2024.