MODPOD

40″ x 30″ x 1.5″
Mixed media: acrylic on birch panel with dimensional elements in wire.

“ModPod” (2025) intensifies the sense of a constructed visual environment. Large black shapes press against muted blues and grays, while red and orange accents strike through like architectural supports or emergency signals. A wire loop extends at the upper right, a line that refuses to be contained. On the left edge, thin rods project outward, as if the painting were testing the air around it. The center is punctured by vertical flecks of light, pale bars that evoke windows, code, or the fragmentary illumination of a city at night. The work feels both composed and alive, as though the geometry were under pressure from some internal pulse. It is here that Côté’s background in design becomes most visible, but also most transformed. The work has the clarity of a designed field, but it uses that clarity to produce uncertainty, to ask what these structures are for, what they hold, what they exclude.