Williamsburg Bridge #2, 2021, 60 x 81 1/2 inches
Williamsburg Bridge #2, part 2, 2021, 60 x 81 1/2 inches

Non-Geometric Observer / Morphological Life Form Studies Lab. 

Central to his inquiry is the idea of the geometric observer: the human tendency to perceive and reconstruct the natural world through the lens of Euclidean geometry; Machine thinking and seeing. This cognitive bias toward clarity, symmetry, and structure—toward simplifying reality into straight lines, planes, and formal logic—shapes both how we see and what we preserve. Kallio’s projects suggest that our current fragmented moment requires new languages, new ways of seeing going toward fractal geometry, and new methods of preservation that account for both loss and transformation and  embrace chaos, complexity, and emergence — the natural world’s deeper logic.

Non-Geometric Observer work has two overlapping parts. Disassembled biomorphic architecture and morphological life form studies lab. The two-part structure—disassembled biomorphic architecture and morphological studies—operate both with deconstruction and reconstruction, breaking down imposed geometric systems while simultaneously studying the organic forms they attempt to contain or represent.

7th Avenue & 26th Street, Detail #1
7th Avenue & 26th Street, Detail #2
7th Avenue & 26th Street, Detail #3
7th Avenue & 26th Street, 2014, Detail #3
Williamsburg Bridge #2, 2021, 50 x 40 inches
7th Avenue & 26th Street, 2016, 76 x 60 inches
72 Hours In The Future On Clear Blue Sky
144 Hours In The Future On Clear Blue Sky
216 Hours In The Future On Clear Blue Sky