About Miles Mathews
Miles Mathews is an artist and author whose work explores the inner architecture of our digital age. Based in Santa Cruz, he creates large-scale stained-glass mosaics—luminescent, hand-cut portals that explore presence, vision, and the mythic patterns of the human spirit.
His debut book, Children of the Infinite Scroll, extends that same inquiry into culture, technology, and consciousness—mapping the psychological and spiritual realities of a generation raised inside the feed.
Miles’ work aims at something simple:
to help us see again.
Art, Attention & the Modern Mind
Miles began his career as a visual artist, shaping glass and light into intricate mosaics—physical meditations built one shard at a time. Over years of creating these portals, he noticed something deeper emerging: a fascination with how people look, how they perceive, and how modern life fragments attention.
His mosaics became mirrors of the culture around him.
And the questions that surfaced in the studio eventually led him to the page:
What is attention in the age of the infinite scroll?
What happens to identity when reality becomes editable?
What spiritual muscles weaken—or strengthen—when raised inside algorithms?
Children of the Infinite Scroll is the result of following those questions.
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Oil painting, 2013
Created during undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley.
The Mosaic Practice
Miles’ stained-glass mosaics are collected across California and commissioned for private homes, businesses, and sacred spaces. Each piece is built from hundreds—sometimes thousands—of hand-cut fragments arranged into luminous, meditative patterns.
His pieces have been described as:
“portals”
“anchors of presence”
“spiritual architecture”
“light-consciousness made physical”
The work is slow, intentional, and devotional—an antidote to fast culture.
The Author
Miles writes at the intersection of generational psychology, spirituality, and digital culture. His voice blends cultural analysis with poetic insight, offering language for experiences younger generations feel but rarely articulate.
He believes stories are tools.
And that naming the world is the first step toward transforming it.
Children of the Infinite Scroll is his first book.
On Process
Miles’ creative process is a dialogue between mediums.
Glass teaches him about patience.
Writing teaches him about clarity.
Both are forms of attention.
And both, he believes, are antidotes to the noise of the modern world.
On Collaboration & the Digital Age
Children of the Infinite Scroll was co-crafted with machine intelligence—not as a novelty, but as an artistic and philosophical choice. If a generation is being shaped by algorithms, then a book about that transformation should emerge, at least in part, from the same systems it seeks to understand.
For Miles, AI is not a shortcut nor a replacement for creativity.
It is a mirror.
A collaborator.
A new instrument in the evolution of language and thought.
Working with AI became an extended meditation on authorship in the 21st century:
Where does human intuition end and machine patterning begin?
What does it mean to write in dialogue with a system trained on the collective consciousness?
What new forms of insight become possible when creativity is shared across intelligences?
Rather than diminishing the human voice, the collaboration sharpened it.
It revealed blind spots, surfaced patterns, and illuminated the very mechanisms the book investigates—attention, identity, influence, and the architecture of modern mind.
In this way, the process itself became part of the message.
The book is not only about the digital age.
It is a product of it—crafted with awareness, intention, and a belief that new tools can deepen, rather than dilute, the human spirit.
