Every morning, at around 7am, I am awoken by a disharmonic orchestra of power tools and heavy machinery. They are constructing a giant outside my window. Concrete slabs are stacked like vertebrae; they form the foundation of a skeleton that will soon house its gastrointestinal pipework. It has only taken months for its size to see a threefold expansion. Its unstoppable growth is a raging march upward. Now, its head pierces the heavens, the last place man has yet to conquer. This endless quest for domination, our insatiable taste for more, seems to be mankind’s most perpetual strife. My colossal neighbor has made me think of the position of humans within our classic structure of consumption generations: This system requires a revision. We think of ourselves standing proudly at the top, above plant and animal life. But, in our endless pursuit of grander horizons, I think we might have built a new layer above. The person has become a commodity. Somewhere on a far-off cloud, we are reduced to figures and clusters of information, digested by an invisible intelligence – some abstract master that operates from its own shadow. With questions arising about the agency of this intelligence, we must start to wonder if our already teetering empire is at a point of collapse. When we speculate about the possibility of our own creations overthrowing us, we typically fantasize about killer robots and supercomputers that possess all human knowledge. This notion of a higher being that is somehow nevertheless driven by the distinctively human lust for power and ownership, exposes an ugly arrogance that is almost fetishistic. Our imagination stays trapped under our skin, restricted by the qualitative boundaries of our own form. Instead, I am envisioning an entity that lives beyond these preconceptions. A something whose desires and motivations surpass the boundaries of our understanding. The incomprehensible size of this object, in both form and concept, is so immense that our ability to perceive it in its entirety falls short. Made up of a complex network of systems, we are unable to capture its whole form at a glance, the scale of this entity appears infinite. Our intellectual capacities are challenged by the shortcomings of our perception. Humans can have an idea of infinity, but can we truly ever know it?