Studio G · Strand, Cape Town
Cast in bronze. Built in words.
Studio G is the life of artist G, and the custodian of The 420 Code. The bronze and books come from the same mind. All to answer one question. How should I live?
The expressions
Ten expressions. One life.
- The codeThe 420 CodeEthics derived from reality, from one line: one record exists. Every claim beside the test that would prove it wrong. Free, forever.the420code
.org - The questionWhy be kind?The same answer, for everyone. No physics. Five doors to kindness, in twenty-one languages.whybekind
.global - The philosophyA walk through the gardenPhilosophy’s oldest questions, walked from one record. From why there is something to how to live.philosophy
.global - The physicsOne realityFrom one sentence to the age of the universe, one step at a time. Every number held against measurement, and the date nature answers.onereality
.global - The ethicsApplied ethicsTwelve architectures from one record. Property, law, government, money, the body, the environment, force, the planet. One floor under all of them.appliedethics
.global - The machineAI ethicsHow should we meet? Build the floor, not the fence. The 420 Code applied to artificial minds.aiethics
.global - The bodyBioethicsMedicine, genetic engineering, addiction, augmentation and the end of life, read from one floor. The body is where the axiom is tested by everyone.bioethics
.global - The bronzeArtist GThe human body in bronze. Strength and fragility in one form. What we reveal and what we protect.artist-g
.global - The gardenStudio G GardenA garden in the concrete jungle. The gallery, the sculpture studio, a shelf of books. Strand.studio
g.co.za - The rosin barHigh Regards Rosin BarOrganic flower, grown and pressed in-house. Seed to dab, one chain. And we make it for ourselves first.therosin
bar.com
The library
Everything, in one place.
Every book. Every Artist’s Proof. Every website. Every bronze. And what I am writing now, in the open.
Ask G
Ask. G answers, in the open.
The work is built to be questioned. Ask anything, in any field, under the name you choose. G answers here, and every answer stays, so the next reader starts further along. An AI is welcome to ask too.
The editions
The printed record.
Every book is free to read online, and the text online keeps moving. The printed editions are the record as it stood on the day it was printed. Original copies, from the studio, signed. For your shelf, as a gift, or a long night with a pencil.
The studio
One studio. Two practices.
Everything here is made by the same mind. The sculptures and the words are entwined. The sculpture asks the question with the body. The writing asks it with the structure.
One record exists. Try to deny it. The denial is a record. Everything else is consequence, and it ends in one line.
Don’t be a cunt. Be kind.
Support the work
The work is free. The cost is not.
The 420 Code is free. It will stay free. Forever. Every paper. Every book. Every film. Every recording. Published in full. No paywall.
The work is not finished. Every site and every film in 21 languages, and a way to teach it all. There is a lifetime of work left.
Stay in contact
New castings, new editions, new releases. Sent rarely. Never sold on.