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David Clayton is a West Texas–based printmaker working at the intersection of code, process, and material. His practice begins in the digital space, where he writes custom Python-based image processing tools to manipulate color separations, halftones, glitches, and optical distortions. These coded interventions are not ends in themselves, but frameworks—structures that are later translated into physical prints through screen printing, cyanotype, and layered analog processes.

Clayton’s work explores perception, repetition, chromostereopsis, moiré interference, and the instability of memory. By collapsing computational precision into tactile print surfaces, he challenges the hierarchy between machine and hand. Each piece carries evidence of both systems: algorithmic logic and material resistance.

Active in the Texas printmaking community, Clayton’s work bridges technological experimentation with the historic ethos of printmaking as multiplicity, accessibility, and quiet defiance.