Zoomed in near the top of a single power pole, this image reveals the frenetic infrastructure behind everyday energy delivery. A pair of cylindrical transformers sit just below the crossarms, surrounded by a mess of cables running diagonally across the frame. The visual tangle evokes disorder, but it works—a persistent system stretched to its functional edge, still delivering electricity, data, and voice to homes.

The pop-art palette intensifies the unease: a flat lime-green sky replaces blue, and flashes of red and blue color the core of the chaos. The result is more graphic than photographic, highlighting a system that’s been patched and layered over time. Tangled Load captures persistence visually verging on what looks like obsolescence. It suggests that renewal in energy isn’t always driven by innovation, but often by the gradual addition of existing system paradigms.