This stretched-linen painting features lines excerpted from T. S. Eliot’s 1943 poetry collection “Four Quartets” run through with words borrowed from the 1971 song “Pure Imagination” sung by Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. I’ve been collaging these textual excerpts in various fonts and handmade and digital processes since 2021, but here the text is rendered in Lydian and Fraktur with gouache and handmade abaca paper collage directly on and embroidery in the weave of the linen. The prepared gesso center of the composition—with its borders resembling a torn paper edge—features an oil painting of the silver arches of an Apple store containing a shadow-puppet outline of a hand holding an origami crane and a lighter. Gestural acrylic marks of craquelure adhere to the raw linen along with preserved cherry blossom buds so that all appear to be falling down behind the oil painting. The origami crane is a key motif: like the flowers, it is commonly associated with Japanese culture, even though in reality origami gained popularity in the region through the importation of Friedrich Froebel’s nineteenth-century German kindergarten pedagogy. More recently, the U.S. federal agency DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has since 2020 been developing a new military plane based on the form of an origami crane—the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE). Given that DARPA was a 1972 rebranding of ARPA, the research organization that created the earliest model for the internet (ARPANET, 1969), my use of the origami crane is a visually compressed way of addressing the intersection of the internet and military technology.