Memories of relationships and love reflected through color. Bright Moments NY, November 2021. 10% of sales proceeds will be directed to the Art for Good fund to provide support for working artists.

Reflection

*Erratic : irregular in performance, behaviour, or attitude; inconsistent and unpredictable*

One’s harmony with the world can become severed while experiencing stress. Feeling lost or confused within a clouded mind, struggling to call upon a creative muse, defending your self-worth against creeping doubts, and projecting flashes of anger towards others. This torrent of bubbling turmoil can sustain by fixating on the moments of chaos, past, and present. Continuing to feed the storm in this way ultimately will lead to burdensome strife and a ravaged mind.

As a nascent artist working to hone my artistic abilities and establish myself within a historical art movement, I have often experienced stress along my journey. This collection captures these internal struggles as fragmented waves of colour arranged across a spectrum of relative calms, chaotic bursts, and winding paths. Each piece reflects a unique sense of uncertainty.

My intent for Erratic was to challenge myself to create a purist’s form of generative art, wherein a set of randomized values are shaped to be used directly as inputs into an instruction path that is consistent in execution and does not use branching conditionals as a means of achieving variety in composition, colour or form. By actively rejecting predetermined features in favour of shaping a domain that is acted upon consistently, I felt I could achieve occurrences of uniquely identifiable emergent design that I otherwise may not have discovered. The work begins with a euclidean coordinate space intended to render a smoothed half-torus which is then randomly mutated through progressive iterations of translations, rotations, polar reflections, slices, twists, and distortions. This pattern of operations produces a nearly infinite set, shaped only by the defined input ranges, from which each piece will be minted. Any knowledge of the instantiated values before viewing could not lead to any reasonable prediction of what will be rendered.

**URL Parameters**

Editions can be rendered in custom aspect ratios/resolutions by using these URL parameters in live mode and are intended for generating desktop or mobile backgrounds, social media banners, and print-quality images for any frame size. Once generated, simply  - *right click, save as...*

- `aspect=W:H` - fits window to aspect ratio, from `3:1` to `1:3` ( ex: `16:9` |  `5:4` | `1:1` )
- `xy=W:H` - renders at resolution, min `500` for both W and H (ex: `1920:1080`)
- `aa=N` - renders at specified anti-aliasing (defaults to 2, maximum is 4)

Example URL for social media banner, with high AA samples:

`https://{ab_url}/{token_id}?xy=1500:500&aa=4`

Erratic

Today the base orbiter has started to move. Oscillating harvesters had the ability to generate an enormous amount of self-sustaining energy. They seem to establish parallel communication in resonance with cosmic frequencies but I find myself unable to decode the signal into anything meaningful.

R3sonance

Incomplete Control is about letting go, allowing room for error and imperfection. It is a meditation on the relation between analogue and computational aesthetics. The output space is a continuous spectrum. Each iteration has its own character to discover and enjoy, if you are willing to give it the time.

Incomplete Control

These are the military alien insects. They are symmetrical and asymmetrical simultaneously for existence in several dimensions. Being in a team, they unite into a collective mind increasing each other's abilities. Click to change mode (standard, skeleton, avatar). Press 1 to 9 to set pixel density according to the numbers. This is part of the TBOA project. You can compete against other collectors in Alien Insect Battle on the TBOA club website: https://www.theblocksofart.com/insect_battle

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