Stack Relief (Kai Zuckerberg + Bushwick Kutcher) deals with the quickly changing logistics of relationships—an accelerating compression between the interpersonal and the techno-corporate. The Stack Reliefs are intricately carved works which seem to hover before the walls. The motifs depicted are stacked rocks (cairns) as well as the culmination of a several month long multi-chain (or stacked) production process. First, the silhouettes are taken from hobbyist rock stacking accounts on Instagram, 3D modeled and then sliced digitally into various compositions by the artist. They are then CNC-milled out of a variety of materials (anodized aluminum, acrylic, plywood, etc.) which interlock together like a puzzle over a steel backplate. The reliefs flatten the cairn (which is emblematic of early human intervention in the natural landscape) into a manifestation of ‘the black stack’, a contemporary term for the emerging global superstructure of post-human computational networks.