Pictured: "What Is An Adult?" - digital iteration

What Is An Adult?
2026 – ongoing
Social media post
WhatIsAnAdult.art

What does it mean to be an adult today?

"What Is An Adult?" is an ongoing digital artwork that uses a social media platform as live material. Initiated as a single post, the work evolves over time through unmoderated public engagement: comments, reactions, shares, silence, and whatever else emerges.

The question is presented without instruction. Viewers are not directed to respond, yet their responses collectively form the work. The artist does not engage. The question establishes a condition; the platform and its users produce the work’s form.

The work exists as the social media post for the duration of the platform’s accessibility. A physical manifestation may be fabricated according to the artist’s instructions as a static manifestation that directs viewers back to the ongoing digital work.

When the platform becomes inaccessible, the work continues through its physical manifestation and the archived documentation of its digital life.