David & Goliath Series ’26

Every case is drawn before it is filed.

The artworks of the Lysey investigations, drawn from the daily encounters of ordinary people with the big companies and public institutions they depend on. Same signature, same record. Lysey Investigations opened in July ’26; the drawings have been part of the record from the first case on.

The Vault, framed impression: flat black frame with a wide white mount.

The Vault ’26

First release · David & Goliath Series ’26

A guard watches a vault no one may open, in front of an endless wall of filing boxes. From the CIS file: one database, seventeen million risk registrations on Dutch citizens, and on request not a single one could be explained. Read the investigation →

  • Work ID LYS-26-002 · registered at lysey custody
  • Unique 1/1 · hand-signed and dated in ink
  • Giclée on Hahnemühle Rice Paper, 100 gsm
  • 60 × 40 cm · loose sheet
  • Authenticity records · Origin · Forensics
Access, framed impression: flat white frame with a wide white mount.

Access ’26

Artist’s collection · not for sale

An official looks the other way while a citizen reaches around the wall towards the hatch of the sealed archive room that holds his own file. Access is the first work Lysey ever drew, made in July ’26 for the CIS investigation before the house style settled; it never ran with the article. Printed and signed regardless: the point of departure for the whole series. Read the investigation →

  • Work ID LYS-26-001 · registered at lysey custody
  • Unique 1/1 · hand-signed and dated in ink
  • Giclée on Hahnemühle Rice Paper, 100 gsm
  • 60 × 40 cm · loose sheet
  • Authenticity records · Origin

Framed views are digital impressions for scale. Works are released as loose, signed sheets.

Why these exist

AI-drawn under human direction, physical-first: ink on rice paper instead of a token. One image per case, drawn at the moment of the injustice, never the resolution. The investigations are free to read; the works are how the record hangs on a wall.

Custody

Authentication and transfers run through one desk, and every sale is announced there before it happens anywhere: lysey custody · custody@lysey.com. Every work carries three proofs: a published SHA-256 fingerprint of its sealed making record, one holder per work ID in the custody register, and a stamped card torn in two, one half with the certificate, one half in the archive. No wallet, no chain; a paper chain. If a work is not on this page, it is not by Lysey.