Artifact inspector / S-026
Make America Best
A public studio post built around leadership, civic imagery, and the authority of a gilded frame. The broader reading remains open.
- Status
- Public record
- Signal
- C1 / Site
- Date
- 22 Mar 2026
- Source
- @sicxz
sicxz / studio practice / 2011—present
Images become systems.
Systems become evidence.
sicxz is Travis Masingale's studio record: collage, installation, electronic media, photography, print, scanning, code, and AI-assisted image making.
This index separates what the public sources state from what their media visibly shows—and from interpretive connections made across the archive.
Source-stated / words, dates, tools, or dimensions in a public post or project record
Observed media / a restrained description of what is visible in a public image
Inference / a reading across works, clearly marked as interpretation
01Sitewall / room
02Remixcollage / citation
03Printhalftone / scan
04Indexarchive / sequence
05Signalscreen / transmission
06Machinememory / AI
07Publicgallery / post
On-site / project worlds
Enter the work before reading its record.
02 active routes
01 / 05
Current practice
Original post media / 2023—2026 / selected work
Current record / March 2026
Make America Best
A public studio post built around leadership, civic imagery, and the authority of a gilded frame. The post names #lookingforaleader and says the work was offered for auction at Terrain Gallery; the broader reading remains open.
Studio prompt / interpretationWhat does a frame authorize before the image gets to speak?
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S-026
Make America BestInstagram displayed date / 22 Mar 2026
Observed media: a collage presented within a gilded frame. Source-stated: the frame points to inherited power, portraiture, status, and old authority; the post uses #lookingforaleader and says the work was offered for auction at Terrain Gallery.
Public recordValues / leadership / civic image
Observed media 01. Local archival copy of the primary image attached to the public studio record. -
S-025
Cybersecurity wallInstagram displayed date / 02 Sep 2025
Source-stated: a 23 × 8-foot wall for EWU Catalyst's cybersecurity department, made through MidJourney, Photoshop, small prints, high-resolution scans, and AI-assisted enlargement.
Case studyScale / hybrid process
Observed media 01. The public installation photograph documents the wall at architectural scale. Artifact inspector / S-025
Cybersecurity wall
The public record discloses a hybrid route from generative seeds through Photoshop, physical printing and scanning, enlargement, test prints, and final installation.
- Status
- Installed
- Signal
- C6 / Machine
- Scale
- 23 × 8 feet
- Date
- 02 Sep 2025
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S-024
Smells Like TattoosInstagram permalink / 23 Mar 2024
Source-stated: twelve years in the making, with references to Gerhard Richter's blur, John Baldessari's conceptualism, and Andy Warhol's pop language; posted from Terrain Gallery.
Public recordBlur / concept / pop
Observed media 01. The local archival copy preserves the full portrait-format image attached to the public post. Artifact inspector / S-024
Smells Like Tattoos
The post frames the work as a twelve-year construction, naming blur, conceptualism, and pop as active points of reference rather than a finished genealogy.
- Status
- Public record
- Signal
- C3 / Print
- Date
- 23 Mar 2024
- Site
- Terrain Gallery
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S-023
Projekt UltraInstagram permalink / 28 Mar 2023
Source-stated: the final-state post names Love, Beyond Truth and Knowledge and Projekt Ultra.
Public recordImage / text / iterative build
Observed media 01. The local archival copy preserves the full primary image from the final-state public post. Artifact inspector / S-023
Projekt Ultra
The final-state record joins repeated pinecone imagery, large lettering, and the title Love, Beyond Truth and Knowledge after a sequence of process posts.
- Status
- Public record
- Signal
- C2 / Remix
- Date
- 28 Mar 2023
- Form
- Image / text
02 / 05
Historical archive
Cargo records / publication date shown
PRIMECargo record / published 19 Jun 2016
MFA THESIS2012 exhibition / Cargo record published 18 Jun 2016
FoundationsSolo exhibition / 02–31 May 2014
Der Kampf Ist EchtDrawn to the Wall installation / 2016
STANDARDSCargo record / published 05 Jan 2012
Diachronic StructureCargo record / published 31 Dec 2011
Reaching For XanaduCargo record / published 31 Dec 2011
Reaching for Xanadu: DetailsCargo record / published 18 Feb 2012
Erfahrung: videoCargo record / published 31 Dec 2011
Erfahrung: imagesCargo record / published 31 Dec 2011
A Line is Not a LineCargo record / published 02 Jan 2012
Can You Hear Me Now?Cargo record / published 03 Jan 2012
03 / 05
Selected exhibitions
Prior site chronology / archive-reconciled
| Year | Exhibition | Venue | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Terrain Gallery Fundraiser, Year 5 | Terrain, Spokane | Fundraiser / current work |
| 2024 | Terrain Gallery Fundraiser, Year 3 | Terrain, Spokane | Invited / current-site record |
| 2022 | Terrain Gallery Fundraiser, Year 1 | Terrain, Spokane | Invited / prior-site record |
| 2021 | Return | Spokane Falls Community College | Group / archive-supported |
| 2020 | Art in the Time of Quarantine | Terrain Gallery, Spokane | Group / archive-supported |
| 2019 | Text and Response | Saranac Art Projects, Spokane | Group / archive-supported |
| 2017 | Kids Stuff | Baby Bar, Spokane | Solo / archive-supported |
| 2016 | the sun will rise tomorrow | Darr Gallery, Spokane | Solo / archive-supported |
| 2016 | Drawn to the Wall VI / Der Kampf Ist Echt | Jundt Museum, Gonzaga | Invited installation / archive-supported |
| 2014 | Foundations | Tinman Gallery, Spokane | Solo / archive-supported |
| 2012 | Topological Sloppism | Decker Gallery, MICA, Baltimore | MFA exhibition / source card |
| 2011 | Can You Hear Me Now? | Gravity Gallery, MICA, Baltimore | Solo / archive-supported |
04 / 05
Practice throughlines
Interpretive links / not source claims
Inference 01 / image as environment
Pictures leave the frame.
From the room-scaled screens and tiled surfaces in the Cargo archive to the 23 × 8-foot cybersecurity wall, images repeatedly become architecture, navigation, and atmosphere.
Inference 02 / archive as material
Memory is built, numbered, and retrieved.
The MFA documentation's machine-memory, archive, and indexing concerns give the older work a useful key: records are not neutral storage; their order and interfaces shape what can be remembered.
Inference 03 / remix as method
Found images become propositions.
Collage persists across Reaching for Xanadu, Projekt Ultra, and Make America Best. Context shifts through juxtaposition, scale, captions, and the authority of the display device.
Inference 04 / translation leaves a trace
Every transfer changes the signal.
Printing, scanning, photographing, compositing, and AI-assisted enlargement form a recurring physical–digital loop. The visible result is not just an output; it is a record of the route taken.
05 / 05
Public source register
Open records / no private material
Source ACurrent practice
Instagram / @sicxz
The current-practice entries above open full records on this page. Instagram is retained only as the canonical source citation, not as the primary portfolio destination.
Source BHistorical record
Cargo / tmasingale
The archive grid stays on this site. Cargo remains the canonical source for ten image-first project records; its feed dates are publication dates, not silently recast artwork-completion dates.