MORE CARNAGE FEATURED: JACOB YAN - “REBIRTH”
What if breaking isn’t an ending, but the most honest way to begin again?
What if surrender is the only way the self remembers its shape?
The fall happens before you can name it. A flash of motion, a body collapsing into snow — soft, but not safe. There’s no serenity here, no purity in white. Instead, the snow writhes, absorbs, mirrors. It takes her in — pixel by pixel, cell by cell — until she becomes something else.
In Rebirth, Jacob Yan stages the collapse as a creative act. The moment of rupture is rendered not as tragedy, but as transformation — a defiant re-entry into chaos. The girl’s descent is both violent and tender, her form glitching between dissolution and bloom. It’s the tension between digital fracture and emotional exposure that defines the work: the algorithm meets the wound; the glitch becomes a pulse.
Yan’s practice often navigates dualities — analytical precision colliding with raw emotion — and here, that contrast feels weaponized. The composition balances on the knife edge between control and surrender, asking what remains of the self once structure dissolves.
Rebirth belongs in MORE CARNAGE because it refuses calm. It embraces the ungoverned moment — the unfiltered, the unhealed, the unedited. It’s not the fall that matters, but what erupts through it.
ABOUT JACOB YAN
Shijie “Jacob” Yan is a contemporary artist based in Scotland whose practice bridges painting and sculpture. His work draws from nature, animals, and lived experience — where colour and emotion act as languages of transformation. With a background in mathematics and economics, Jacob wields structure as both boundary and battleground, shaping vivid, emotionally charged scenes that oscillate between rage and serenity. His art traces the geometry of feeling — a continuous act of rebuilding, rebalancing, and returning.
“MORE CARNAGE” OUT NOW
Fall again.
Let the fracture be the birth.
Let chaos be the teacher.
The blood in the snow is proof: the body remembers.
MORE CARNAGE breathes where the rules end.
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