Framed installation view of 'CTRL+SUB' by Characters ASCII, a contemporary queer artwork composed of four ASCII-rendered sheets printed on salvaged dot-matrix paper exploring submission and restraint.
Macro detail of ASCII characters in 'CTRL+SUB,' a queer digital artwork by Characters ASCII, showing monospaced renderings of flesh on continuous-feed paper.
Top-down view of 'CTRL+SUB' in the framing process, showing ASCII-rendered sheets being prepared for installation as part of a post-digital homoerotica series.
Staged installation of 'CTRL+SUB,' a contemporary queer art piece shown mounted in a raw spatial context, with framed ASCII sheets displayed in a bolted plexi frame.
Original homoerotic conceptual photograph staged for 'CTRL+SUB,' depicting one nude male figure gripping another’s face — later rendered as ASCII-based queer photographic code.
Editing markup on the original photo for 'CTRL+SUB,' showing compositional guides used in transforming this staged queer image into ASCII-rendered conceptual photography.

CTRL+SUB — face held, cock claimed. their protocol is pain, their contract, mutual override — hold to execute.

Details:
Year: 2025
Format: 4 individual sheets
Dimensions per sheet: 24cm × 112cm (~9.5″ × 44.1″)
Total: 96cm × 112cm (~37.8″ × 44.1″)
Printing method: ASCII output via dot-matrix on salvaged continuous-feed paper
Edition of 3 (per colorway, signed + numbered)
Ships unframed

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Curatorial Note

In CTRL+SUB, domination is structured, not performed. Every contorted line speaks in a language older than pain: repetition, permission, command. The two bodies—one gripping, one braced—exist inside a mutual override, neither fully agent nor object.

Printed in dot-matrix code, the image doesn’t simply show—it executes. Desire becomes readable as a set of instructions, bound not by flesh, but by format.

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