Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement.: Biggie — Archival Photo hip-hop-art

Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement.: Biggie — Archival Photo hip-hop-artWhat does a rap career look like when you measure it in miles? Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement.: Biggie is a gallery scale archival photograph from a series that applies physics to hip hop biography calculating the maximum distance traveled from home across an artist's full discography, then rendering that data as a long exposure light drawing. The Notorious B. I. G.'s career is captured as a single luminous arc: the math of displacement made

For collectors of photography

part of the Intonarumori: Noise Making Machines series

Nasir Jones never moved far from Queensbridge — but his discography moved everywhere

Hand-pulled screenprint on archival Arches paper

or data visualization work

The title is drawn from hip-hop vernacular

Part of the Mapper's Delight series

Part of an edition of 10

Each sculpture is a data object and a portrait — the geographic footprint of a career compressed into a single gold form

Archival print

For collectors who want limited-edition prints with intellectual depth and cultural specificity

and a collectible artwork