I find the patterns which emerge from the herding of sheep and the murmuration of starlings an apt metaphor for our own journeys of searching for truth, beauty and love while we're here. These pieces are best viewed live to witness how the path of these digital creatures' lives paint their tiny planet. ***
I behold the sleeping planet ​| Plucked from the sky | Rolled around in my hands. | “My Word formed it.” | Time worn, | Life stained, | Soil rinsed and washed. | “Our story in repose.” | Love lost, | Wanderlust, | Loud surrender. | “It must have been painful.” | Placed in my collection, | Delicate and beautiful, | When viewed from this distance. | Selah. | I return my gaze to the heavens. *** 
25% of sales above resting price will be used to fund The Playability Initiative whose mission is to design free, fun video games and creative digital tools to kids with disabilities.

Beauty in the Hurting

**Attention! Extremely Experimental Project!**

This project is the quintessential generative art. Each instance of this project is an infinite deterministic ratio and resolution agnostic art generator. _Every click = new art_. The main format is a 3x4 poster. But by pressing "f," you can stretch the art to the whole screen (any screen). All elements of this art are rectangles, and the main number of this project is 4. You can use the generated images commercially (read the license).
  
**Controls:**

- "f" = fullscreen
- "s" = save art
 - "t" = 30-sec interval infinite slideshow
- "u" = 3-sec interval slideshow + save (а convenient way to make images for the gallery)
- "1 - 9" = change pixel density.   (Changing the ratio and pixel density resets the art counter to 0).

444(4)

Last night I dreamed of Murano and of paperweights... 

"Murano Fantasy" is an tribute to glassmakers who, since Antiquity, have been producing murrines.
Murrines are assembled into paperweights, with different layouts.
The central cane, when present, is often sophisticated, and the paperweight might be signed by the artist.

As with real murrines, a part of the pleasure is to use a magnifying glass: press 'n' (next) or space to automatically focus on noteworthy canes; use 'p' (previous) to go back to previous cane; 'c' (clear) to reset zoom; and click wherever you wish.

Murano Fantasy

Inspired by the bright lights of the big city, Time Squared is an homage to New York City, brought to life through the magic of prime numbers. 

A key problem that we wanted to solve with this project is allowing visually impaired individuals to enjoy our art. As a result, these artworks feature a first-of-its-kind screen reader which contains a detailed description of the colors, movement, size, and structure of the artwork. You can activate it by enabling a screen reader such as ChromeVox and hovering over the artwork. 

Use any key to pause the artwork, or click to make it full screen. Photosensitive warning: These artworks contain flashing colors and moving patterns that could trigger seizures for people with visual sensitivities.

Time Squared

*Arcadia* is a homage to the fridge-worthy landscape art of our youth. Childhood techniques of creating art are re-imagined by the scribbles of a nostalgic, computer-assisted mind.

**Spacebar**: Skip animation and load final image (useful when rendering in high resolutions)
**Up arrow**: Speed scribbles up (default speed is the highest)
**Down arrow**: Slow scribbles down

Palette

Alternate Paper Color

Border

Scribble Pressure

Scribble Roughness

Scribble Type

Mountain Type

Mountain Jaggedness

Mountain Height

Land Type

Sun Type

Cloud Type

Cloud Density

Has Rocks

Rock Density

Rock Size

Grass Height

Grass Density

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