WCS Art and Design

10/19/2026

NEW ONLINE STORE
Hi 🙂 the new LitWear by Proteus Hinge online store on Printful.com is officially ready for your orders.

Five things worth sharing: the decision was made to return to the original vision featuring a typewriter font, the sizing is about the same as the old store, there are currently 23 designs available in 13 colorways, designs are currently only available as unisex premium sweatshirts, and the overall garment quality and construction is much nicer which is a lovely and extremely welcome but admittedly somewhat of a surprise shift.

Please feel free to inquire about sizing or fit.

Thank you for being you and for consciously choosing to poetically engage in Transformation through Empowerment when you put on LitWear. Have a peaceful and productive day!

~ Proteus Hinge

10/17/2026

Thank you for your service, ancient plant-friend. 🥳

08/26/2026

SERIES
3D Typography

TITLE
‘DECODE’

CLIENT
Redmond Lights - Buoyant Pavilion projection array

STATEMENT
A meta-process and physically context-specific videowork tucked into the 3D Typography series, ‘DECODE’ is an interactive art-puzzle that while intentionally not prompted to on-site requires a selfie be taken with the piece in the background in order to properly read the word DECODE.

With the word’s letters reversed and each letter’s bottom half rotated on its central vertical axis at the top of the video and therefore the word’s top half a reflection in the Buoyant Pavilion’s mirrored ceiling, the piece tangibly and poetically occupies more than simply the projection area.

A gentle metaphor for Redmond’s split agriculture/tech history and a living example of its contemporary capacity for Engagingly Solving Problems, DECODE subtly shifts in tonality, itself a humble nod to Cultural Evolution cycles, as its many randomly introduced black vertical bars pan left and right both behind and in front of the text in an attempt to whimsically take advantage of the Pavilion’s physical bar-based screen construction to create the illusion that some are flickering, turning off and back on, etc.

Fascinatingly, our brains’ Visual Word Form Area, once triggered by the moment the shapes are bound together as relationally unified, attempts to decode them as meaningful linguistic symbols… we are compelled to understand, to decode DECODE.

SERIES3D TypographyTITLE‘DECODE’CLIENTRedmond Lights - Buoya...

08/23/2026

I’m offering my WCS Naturally Felled Trees Candle Holders!!! Come help celebrate Bizzarro’s 40th!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

08/19/2026

'TRANSITION'
An inner-galactic exploration of what we experience during physical change, during psychological metamorphosis, during progress forward.

ABOUT
3844 (pronounced 'thirty-eight, forty-four') is my outlet for the compositional concepts that I’ve had floating in my head for many years. Some complex, some simple... but until I explored composition software applications, I didn’t have an artistically or technically viable means to manifest any of them.

3844 WORKS/PROFILES
The Planets
https://soundcloud.com/3844theplanets

Music for Active Meditation (ongoing)
https://soundcloud.com/3844mfam

ROY G BIV
https://soundcloud.com/3844roygbiv

Stories & Scores (ongoing)
https://soundcloud.com/3844storiesandscores

[These compositions were written/engineered to take advantage of the unique aural experience of the private listening environment, headphones/earbuds recommended.]

CALL
If you are interested in an original piece for your project, live performance, video/film/commercial, website, fashion show, special gathering/party/celebration or you have an idea for a composition that you'd like to see come to fruition for fun or otherwise, please contact me... I'd be honored to work with you.

[email protected]

PHOTOS
Christopher Hydinger

© 2026 WCS Art and Design

https://youtu.be/CgyEO_uwRS0

'TRANSITION'An inner-galactic exploration of what we experience du...

07/06/2026

All proceeds will benefit the Lynnwood Food Bank!

Check out the live auction for all the Art Soccer Balls including mine that were created for the Lynnwood Arts Commission in honor of this year's FIFA World Cup.

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‘The Lynnwood Orb’

“Originally discovered half-buried in Scriber Lake in 1976 by Franz Arantes while on a weekend outing with his family, the Aranteses having migrated from Philadelphia so that Franz could work on the Alderwood Mall, the artifact that quickly became known simply as The Lynnwood Orb captured the curiosity and imagination of an entire planet.

And for the billions of global fans of the team sport we sometimes call soccer, that curiosity and imagination was at a significantly high level… The Lynnwood Orb without question resembled a soccer ball.

Research scientists from every branch, from every sector and from every nation expressed interest in wanting to help study it, to help understand it and ultimately to fundamentally help build its story to be shared with the world.

The mysteriously detailed metallic sphere has toured the globe several times over, been examined and tested by hundreds of individuals, sparking enough wonder to have been documented or interpreted by countless professional photographic journalists and visual artists and been awarded Object of the Year for a record 37 times by the prestigious Intercontinental Design Federation.

To this day, however, The Lynnwood Orb’s purpose has not been confirmed, its physical properties and materiality have not been determined and its origin has not been established.

Is it alien-tech? Is it a time traveling ball from a future World Cup match? What do the markings and glyphs on its surface mean? Why Lynnwood, Washington, why Scriber Lake and why 1976? Did it or its makers somehow manage to intentionally select Franz Arantes as its caretaker?

Its presence over the decades has raised a multitude of questions and hypotheses as much as it has cross-culturally solidified something genuinely amazing about humans: extraordinarily beautiful things happen when we unite and imagine together.”

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Instead of Diversity, I focused on Common Lore. With intelligence, craft and humor, I created ‘The Lynnwood Orb’. Poking lighthearted fun at the Pacific Northwest’s cross-cultural interests in the lore of aliens and occult/mythology, the work appears metallic bronze/brass and is covered in detailed markings and glyphs of unknown origin. Its purpose unknown… hence an artifact For Everyone to Imagine.

(Includes ball, framed print of faux-history document and ball stand.)

Silent auction 'Soccer Balls' hosted online at 32auctions.

06/26/2026

Honored to have had the opportunity to participate in this group exhibit and to have created 'The Lynnwood Orb' as my contribution.

The Lynnwood Arts Commission invites you to view the Soccer Ball Art Project on display at the Lynnwood Recreation Center through Sunday, July 19th.

You can also bid on your favorite soccer ball through the online auction, with all proceeds benefiting the Lynnwood Food Bank! https://www.32auctions.com/soccerballs

This project is funded in part through a grant from the Economic Alliance Snohomish County.

06/17/2026

IT'S ALIVE!
Check out the live auction for all the Art Soccer Balls including mine that were created for the Lynnwood Arts Commission in honor of this year's FIFA World Cup.

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‘The Lynnwood Orb’

“Originally discovered half-buried in Scriber Lake in 1976 by Franz Arantes while on a weekend outing with his family, the Aranteses having migrated from Philadelphia so that Franz could work on the Alderwood Mall, the artifact that quickly became known simply as The Lynnwood Orb captured the curiosity and imagination of an entire planet.

And for the billions of global fans of the team sport we sometimes call soccer, that curiosity and imagination was at a significantly high level… The Lynnwood Orb without question resembled a soccer ball.

Research scientists from every branch, from every sector and from every nation expressed interest in wanting to help study it, to help understand it and ultimately to fundamentally help build its story to be shared with the world.

The mysteriously detailed metallic sphere has toured the globe several times over, been examined and tested by hundreds of individuals, sparking enough wonder to have been documented or interpreted by countless professional photographic journalists and visual artists and been awarded Object of the Year for a record 37 times by the prestigious Intercontinental Design Federation.

To this day, however, The Lynnwood Orb’s purpose has not been confirmed, its physical properties and materiality have not been determined and its origin has not been established.

Is it alien-tech? Is it a time traveling ball from a future World Cup match? What do the markings and glyphs on its surface mean? Why Lynnwood, Washington, why Scriber Lake and why 1976? Did it or its makers somehow manage to intentionally select Franz Arantes as its caretaker?

Its presence over the decades has raised a multitude of questions and hypotheses as much as it has cross-culturally solidified something genuinely amazing about humans: extraordinarily beautiful things happen when we unite and imagine together.”

---------

Instead of Diversity, I focused on Common Lore. With intelligence, craft and humor, I created ‘The Lynnwood Orb’. Poking lighthearted fun at the Pacific Northwest’s cross-cultural interests in the lore of aliens and occult/mythology, the work appears metallic bronze/brass and is covered in detailed markings and glyphs of unknown origin. Its purpose unknown… hence an artifact For Everyone to Imagine.

(Includes ball, framed print of faux-history document and ball stand.)

Silent auction 'Soccer Balls' hosted online at 32auctions.

06/12/2026

THE LYNNWOOD ORB
"Originally discovered half-buried in Scriber Lake in 1976 by Franz Arantes while on a weekend outing with his family, the Aranteses having migrated from Philadelphia so that Franz could work on the Alderwood Mall, the artifact that quickly became known simply as The Lynnwood Orb captured the curiosity and imagination of an entire planet.

And for the billions of global fans of the team sport we sometimes call soccer, that curiosity and imagination was at a significantly high level… The Lynnwood Orb without question resembled a soccer ball.

Research scientists from every branch, from every sector and from every nation expressed interest in wanting to help study it, to help understand it and ultimately to fundamentally help build its story to be shared with the world.

The mysteriously detailed metallic sphere has toured the globe several times over, been examined and tested by hundreds of individuals, sparking enough wonder to have been documented or interpreted by countless professional photographic journalists and visual artists and been awarded Object of the Year for a record 37 times by the prestigious Intercontinental Design Federation.

To this day, however, The Lynnwood Orb’s purpose has not been confirmed, its physical properties and materiality have not been determined and its origin has not been established.

Is it alien-tech? Is it a time traveling ball from a future World Cup match? What do the markings and glyphs on its surface mean? Why Lynnwood, Washington, why Scriber Lake and why 1976? Did it or its makers somehow manage to intentionally select Franz Arantes as its caretaker?

Its presence over the decades has raised a multitude of questions and hypotheses as much as it has cross-culturally solidified something genuinely amazing about humans: extraordinarily beautiful things happen when we unite and imagine together."

05/29/2026

'FRAMED'
A community reacts to an event that seems to be both the result of chaos and chaos itself.

ABOUT
3844 (pronounced 'thirty-eight, forty-four') is my outlet for the compositional concepts that I’ve had floating in my head for many years. Some complex, some simple... but until I explored composition software applications, I didn’t have an artistically or technically viable means to manifest any of them.

3844 WORKS/PROFILES
The Planets
https://soundcloud.com/3844theplanets

Music for Active Meditation (ongoing)
https://soundcloud.com/3844mfam

ROY G BIV
https://soundcloud.com/3844roygbiv

Stories & Scores (ongoing)
https://soundcloud.com/3844storiesandscores

[These compositions were written/engineered to take advantage of the unique aural experience of the private listening environment, headphones/earbuds recommended.]

CALL
If you are interested in an original piece for your project, live performance, video/film/commercial, website, fashion show, special gathering/party/celebration or you have an idea for a composition that you'd like to see come to fruition for fun or otherwise, please contact me... I'd be honored to work with you.

[email protected]

PHOTOS
Christopher Hydinger

© 2026 WCS Art and Design

'FRAMED'A community reacts to an event that seems to be both the result of chaos and chaos itself.ABOUT3844 (pronounced 'thirty-eight, forty-four') is my out...