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The neon sign blinks “jobs”, “jobs”, “jobs”, like in a store front window. The timing of the blinking is programmed to send out a message in Morse code. The neon’s design is formed into Steve Jobs' signature and broadcasts a simple python infinite loop that the audience can decode with a provide key:

while True:
print ("tomorrow, and")

The code prints a fragment of Shakespeare's Macbeth “tomorrow” soliloquy repeatedly and will run on to infinity while the neon sign its self relies on the operation hours of the gallery. The looped words of Shakespeare activated through the signature of Steve Jobs interferes with viewer's investigation of the work's existential authorship. The concept of the finite and infinite emerge in the translation and transformation of the text, and undermines the artist's role as a sole creator and represents an array of artistic starting points thus revealing a subjective entanglement of meaning and signs.