Creativity Quote by Sean Booth

Booth gestures toward a fascination with perceptual ambiguity: visuals that hover on the seam between flat surface and spatial volume. The idea of something being simultaneously two- and three-dimensional evokes isometric drawings, impossible objects, and orthographic renders where depth cues invite a 3D reading even as the image remains a flat arrangement of lines and planes. It is a play with the eye, but also with the logic of representation in digital culture, where all screens are 2D while promising access to simulated depth. Such graphics exploit perspective, occlusion, shading, and parallax to toggle the viewer between readings, creating a dynamic, unstable perception that refuses to settle.

That impulse aligns with Autechre’s broader aesthetic. Their records often explore forms that feel solid and architectural yet exist only as sound; rhythms seem to carve space while the actual medium is air and time. The Designers Republic, long associated with Warp’s visual language, frequently used isometric grids, stark geometry, and near-technical diagrams that look like components of machines that cannot exist. The continuum between diagram and object, schematic and structure, mirrors the duo’s music, where algorithms and patterns hint at a mechanical interior while remaining abstract.

His reluctance to elaborate, couched in the admission that they have not perfected it, reflects a method rooted in process, iteration, and healthy doubt. Autechre are known for resisting gear talk and definitive statements about their tools. The refusal to pin the idea down preserves its experimental edge: the project is less about marketing a trick than about pushing perception until the boundary itself becomes audible and visible. The aim is not a neat optical illusion but a system that generates ambiguity as a property of the work. In that sense, the comment sketches a manifesto for a hybrid practice, one that treats depth as a parameter to be modulated rather than a fixed fact of images or sound.