Critic Christian Viveros-Fauné, in describing Lawson's recent labyrinth sculptures, said: "The similarities between circuit boards and computer engineering diagrams, among other blueprints for knowledge, take new form in Lawson's mazes, dovetailing neatly with murky yet popular metaphors for information exchange: data clouds, neural nets, global webs, and other numinous and hyper-connective metaphors.
As the media-studies guru Marshall McLuhan put it twenty-six years before the internet: 'When you give people too much information, they resort to pattern recognition.'"
Dystopian Geometries: The Art of Ted Lawson In 2011, he started a large-scale sculpture commissioned by Napster and Facebook founder Sean Parker.
Lawson owns Prototype New York, an art fabrication studio, which has created works for Ghada Amer, Mariko Mori, Jeff Koons, Terence Koh and Yoko Ono.
The initial drawing, a life size self-portrait called Ghost In The Machine, went viral after a video of the process was picked up and shared by Huffington Post, Juxtapoz Magazine, and many more.