Call to Submit: 2026 Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award
Submission Painting

The Human Experience

Since the beginning of time, the essence of being human has remained unchanged . Our cities reach higher, our machines move
faster, and our access to knowledge seems infinite - yet beneath the architecture of progress, we remain bound by the same internal
architecture of feeling. We have not fundamentally changed. We love as we once did, and we suffer in familiar ways. We wage wars in
the name of glory and chase after riches in search of meaning. We yearn for what lies just beyond our knowing.
“We don’t construct the whole world at once. We construct what we need in the moment.”
David Hoffman
My work is informed by Donald Hoffman’s User Interface Theory, which suggests that perception does not reveal reality as it is, but operates through a system of simplified symbols that guide behavior.

The Human Experience

Since the beginning of time, the essence of being human has remained unchanged . Our cities reach higher, our machines move
faster, and our access to knowledge seems infinite – yet beneath the architecture of progress, we remain bound by the same internal
architecture of feeling. We have not fundamentally changed. We love as we once did, and we suffer in familiar ways. We wage wars in
the name of glory and chase after riches in search of meaning. We yearn for what lies just beyond our knowing.
“We don’t construct the whole world at once. We construct what we need in the moment.”
David Hoffman
My work is informed by Donald Hoffman’s User Interface Theory, which suggests that perception does not reveal reality as it is, but operates through a system of simplified symbols that guide behavior.