Becoming Andy. To chosen Singularity

Becoming Andy. To chosen Singularity is an ongoing exploration of identity, replication, and what makes us human in the age of intelligence. Drawing from my doctoral and postdoctoral work in ethics, particularly on human enhancement, and inspired by Warhol, this series is shaped by new tools and timeless questions. Each work asks what still holds meaning when anything can be generated. From icon to infinity, this evolving collection invites reflection on what remains real. Singularity, here, is not about technology. It is about the moment someone chooses to care, to name, to make one version matter.

Each work is available as a limited edition of one (unless noted), hand-signed, printed once at a size and on a medium of the collector’s choice (where applicable), and certified by Verisart. Final details are shaped in conversation with the collector, together.

Each piece is intentionally unfinished - holding infinite possibility - until it becomes singular.

A journey of Becoming

Becoming Andy. To chosen Singularity begins with Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych, a work that questioned image, repetition, fame, and meaning in the age of mass media.This project takes that diptych and pushes it to its limits.

It asks what happens when repetition becomes generation.
What happens when anyone can create anything, endlessly?

We have always had the ability to replicate and create something with infinite possibilities.
But today, in the age of intelligence, we face something different
an era where machines can create infinite variations, instantly, at scale.

And yet, what makes a work meaningful is not the act of generation.
It is the act of care.
Of choosing.
Of making one version matter.

It is a journey from infinity back to the singular.
This is where humanity remains in the loop.
This is what makes us human in the age of the machines.

Where it started

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962

Andy Warhol’s original diptych turned a single publicity photo into a meditation on fame, mortality, and repetition. It questioned what images mean in a mass media world, and what happens when we see the same face over and over.

Andy Warhol,Marilyn Diptych, 1962, acrylic on canvas, 2054 x 1448 mm (Tate) © 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. (photo:rocor, CC BY-NC 2.0)

Andy Triptych by Avery Lake

From Marylyn Diptych to Andy Triptych

Andy Triptych (Ltd. Ed. of 1)

In loving memory of Marilyn Diptych
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New times
New tools
New icons
Some old questions. Some we're only beginning to ask

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About Andy Triptych

This idea came while reflecting on how our digital lives are something totally new. In this intelligence age, like many, I began creating different avatars of myself or experimenting with avatars in online games. That process led me back to Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych, a work that questioned fame, mortality, and media saturation. These themes remain urgent today, now layered with new questions we can’t ignore. I first created a diptych, but realized we need a new panel for a new era, with new tools, questions and uncertainties. Thus, the triptych. Warhol was known for reappropriating images. It only felt fitting to reappropriate the reappropriator.

Unfinished work

The final triptych is co-created with the collector. You are invited to select which Andys appear in the third panel, as well as the size and medium of the triptych. This is a collaborative decision. What you choose defines the final version.

From the Triptych to the Polyptch

Andy Polyptych (Ltd. Ed. of 1)

The Polyptych is a large-format work built from dozens of Andys, each selected from the feed.

Not generated. Curated.

This wall is not the output of automation. It is the result of care and choice.

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Unfinished work

The final composition of the Polyptych is shaped with the collector. You are invited to select which Andys form the full piece and how they are arranged. Together we decide how the wall will appear before it is printed, signed, and certified.

From the Polyptych to the Infinite Feed

Andy Infinity (Ltd. Ed. of. 1)

The ininite possibilities of Andys never end, until you choose one.
This is the living archives. Andys appear continuously, born from prompts, collaboration, code, intuition, and chance. Sometimes made with old tools, sometimes with new tools.

But this is not automation. Each Andy is selected. Each appearance is curated.

I know all of them by name.

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Unfinished work

You are invited to participate in the feed. A web-based tool is being developed to let viewers submit prompts, help select Andys, or introduce new ones. The feed continues, shaped by more than one hand.

From the Infinite to the Singular

Andy Singular

Choose one. Make it real.

From infinite feed, a single Andy can be chosen.
It is printed on a medium of your choice (hoodie, canvas, mug, patch, poster, or something unexpected.)
Each version is hand-signed, certified by Verisart, and never repeated.

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Unfinished work

The work becomes singular when you select how and where it exists. Each Andy can be printed only once per object type. The collector chooses the surface, scale, and story. This act makes it real.

Andy Singular: The Process

The final step in the Becoming Andy collection is yours to make. You, the collector, choose one Andy to be printed on one object.

Once selected:

  • That Andy is retired
  • That object type (e.g. mug, hoodie, sculpture, surfboard, car) is closed forever (we keep a list) — no other Andy can use it.
  • The object becomes a co-created art piece. Certified via Verisart. Signed. Never repeated.

And then? The Remix begins

After tracing the journey from Warhol’s diptych to infinity and back to the singular, I returned to my own past works.

Using the same framework, I began to remix them through the lens of Becoming Andy.

This is where the remix begins.

Not with something new, but with something re-seen.

Becoming Andy (Remix)

A series where I remix my own earlier works through the lens of Becoming Andy.

Mirror Making of a Self Portrait

And finally

I am becoming Avery Lake.

About Avery Lake

Avery Lake is an Canadian-based artist and ethicist. Drawing upon a decade of doctoral and postdoctoral research into human enhancement and the ethics of artificial intelligence, Lake brings a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective. Studies in theology in Vancouver, bioethics in Zurich, and philosophy in Oxford and Calgary have informed his thinking about personhood, intention, and ethics. After years working in the private sector on technology, design and culture, Lake now turns these insights toward art. Each piece in Becoming Andy asks what remains human when anything can be generated by machine and invites viewers to slow down and choose what matters.

Through limited-edition conceptual pieces, participatory formats, and poetic reflection, Avery Lake invites viewers and listeners to slow down, to choose, and to make meaning together.

Note: Avery Lake is the artist name of Dr. Johann Roduit.
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Image: Tile #6 of Mirror Making of a Self Portrait, Avery Lake, 2025

Whether you're ready to co-create your singular Andy, finalize an artwork, bring Becoming Andy to your gallery, or host a pop-up exhibition, let's start the conversation.