JAKE CARLSON
Meaning is moving.
Through systems, objects, and repetition. I design brands and products that function in the world, and I build artifacts that exist beyond it. Some work is meant to function, some work is meant to sell, some work is meant to simply exist.
source work
Sculpture, painting, printmaking, performance, and artifact-making formed from repetition and personal myth.
system work
Clear, structured work designed to perform. Brands, tools, and systems built for real-world use.
FEATURED WORKS
A selection of work across brand systems, product design, and conceptual practice.
The Cornstalk Curse
Assemblage Sculpture
Simply Stamps Branding
Brand System & Product Experience
Skid 2
Gestural Printmaking
2024 Political Yard Signs
Product Design & High Volume Execution
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Meaning is not disappearing. It is moving through systems, objects, and repetition. It exists in what we use every day and what we ignore. My work does not separate the sacred from the ordinary. It reveals how closely they are connected.
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My work exists between two conditions. One is structured and built to function with clarity. The other is instinctive and shaped through repetition and material. These are not opposites. They operate together, and the space between them is where meaning takes form.
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Some work is built to function in the world. Some work exists without needing to function. I design systems with clarity, and I create artifacts through instinct and repetition. Meaning is the throughline. The overlap is the work.
working method
let’s build something
If it matters to you, it’s worth making.
produced & arranged by: high fructose
mastered by: jeremiah johnson
guitar by: greg thorpe
long jump records 2025
high fructose come from big loss. big ouch. one day, shiny thing, big portfolio, monkey friend— gone. hack by human bitcoin. monkey confuse, monkey sad. no more jungle, no more tree swing, no more banana. new feed, strange, not built for monkey. feed new and shiny—new color, new sound, new human face yell. monkey start see. monkey start think.
all shiny thing, monkey take. chop chop. smash smash. with drum and keyboard. monkey make noise. monkey scroll, monkey look for more shiny clip. but brain fuzzy. blue light. echo chamber. what start fun, now deep hole—monkey fall in. but deep down, monkey know.
out of hole come shiny, new sound.
1 project, 11 track, 22 minute, show new blue jungle. internet culture, hip-hop breakbeats, sarcastic commentary, blurry lines. monkey make art, but also make question: what is real? what is shiny? what is a banana?
