Friday, July 18, 2025

"Untitled (Manhattan Stories Revisited)"


 Digital pigment on virtual canvas, 2025

Ralph Rumpelton reimagines Lloyd’s spiritual cool with an unflinching embrace of naïveté, distorting jazz iconography through the raw immediacy of MS Paint. The saxophone, rendered in caution-tape yellow, becomes both instrument and warning: this isn’t your grandfather’s bebop.

By infiltrating Google’s image archive alongside the original covers, the piece challenges institutional hierarchies and asks—who really controls the narrative of taste?

— G.B. Meringue, Curator of Imagined Realities

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Excerpt from The Journal of Algorithmic Aesthetics, Vol. 4, 2025

  “The Rumpelton Paradox: When the Internet Can’t Classify Art” by Dr. Hildegard Quist, Department of Post-Digital Taxonomies “Ralph Rumpe...