Tropism is the phenomenon in which an organism's growth is influenced by environmental stimuli. Organisms of all shapes, sizes, and colors encounter varying amounts of external forces as they grow. These environmental stimuli are internalized, and the marks they leave end up being the defining characteristics of a life.

Tropism

Center pivot irrigation is a mainstay of the American farm. Like giant inkjet printers, they have painted verdant circles onto landscapes since the 1950s. The artists of this piece grew up in America’s breadbasket near the birthplace of the center pivot, surrounded by the nostalgia of the Family Farm. These were years of innocence – free from concerns of water shortages, chemical leaching, and economic controversy. The tension between childhood times and today’s environmental reality is a canvas for re-envisioning center pivots: they are fundamentally giant drawing machines. What happens when water is rationed? …when they are free to draw? …when they behave unexpectedly? Your token serves as the instructions for these machines—instructions that either constrain or liberate the machine to paint fantastical scenes.

Watch the project teaser video, learn more about the rationale, and see example mints at https://centerpivot.art/

Additional controls interact with each other and have varying impacts during different periods of the animation. Experiment to create and save a new variation of your mint!
'Arrow up' increases evaporation
'Arrow down' decreases evaporation
'Arrow right' increases overspray
'Arrow left' decreases overspray
'.' begins sunset; neon colors emerge depending on when initiated
'/' shows pivot mechanisms only
's' saves screenshot

Center Pivot

Letters to My Future Self is a series looking at communication through time. There is so much I want to tell my future self that words can't express: from the fear and anger I've felt in lockdown isolation to the joy in finding new friends and community. Each piece in this series becomes a small part of a much bigger story -- letters sent into the future expressing our collective hopes, fears, sadness, and love. A moment in time captured in perpetuity on the blockchain for future generations to find and reflect on. 25% of proceeds will support future artists through art education grants via Donors Choose.

Letters to My Future Self

Fushi ( Japanese for immortality / eternal life ) is a concentration study to help those who might need help to slow down in their lives, those who get lost in their thoughts, and those who need a focus point to stand up.

No Reality is an invitation to contemplation. 

It acts as a support to our emotional levels and aims to enhance our environment by guiding us into a meditation state. Both contemplation and meditation have proven to have a positive impact on improving mental and physical health.  

Consciousness, Healing arts, and spirituality, Fushi No Reality is a window through surrealities. A procedural immortal healing ritual unlocking our capacity to cure ourselves.  

Each surreality is forged from a real-time organic system running in an infinite and perpetual movement, crafted from chaos and noise-domain explorations. From a computing point of view, there is no distinction between visually random noise and mastered noise. They are both an output of the same algorithm perceived by our brain as a signal. From a soul point of view, the difference is the perception and what we, humans, do qualify as pleasing, perceptible, or intriguing.

Exploration, observation, and modulation are key to this vast pandemonium of chaos. A creative process to re-forge shapes we already observe in our world’s best inspiration: Nature.

This inspiration directed Fushi No reality towards Landscape art/cloth art mixed with vaporware aesthetics, slow movement, and peaceful color palettes.  A light beam travels through each surreality to guide a few voyaging spirits across the landscape. Portrait or landscape,  the surrealities are meant to be displayed in both ways, viewers may look at generative cloth swirling and sci-fi planetary landscapes.  

The more adventurous may move their cursor to the top or bottom to live a faster healing experience.

No one can bring you peace but yourself, but this time, let’s travel together.

フシハ、セイカツノナカデスローダウンスルテダスケガヒツヨウカモシレナイヒト、シコウ二マヨッテシマウヒト、タチアガルタメノフォーカスポイントガヒツヨウナヒトノタメノシュウチュウリョクガクシュウデス。

[Fushi no reality / フシノゲンジツ]ハ、シサクへノショウタイジョウデス。
ワタシタチノカンジョウレベルヲサポートスルヤクワリヲハタシ、メイソウジョウタイヘトミチビクコトデ、ワタシタチノカンキョウヲヨリイイモノ二スルコトヲモクテキトシテイマス。メイソウトジュクコウハドチラモ、シンシンノケンコウゾウシン二イイエイキョウヲアタエルコトガショウメイサレテイマス。

イシキ、ヒーリングアート、スピリチュアリティ、フシギノリアリティハチョウゲンジツヲトウシテノマドデス。フメツノイヤシノギシキハ、ワタシタチジシンノチユノウリョクヲトキハナツタメノテズクリデス。
 
ソレゾレノチョウゲンジツハ、カオストノイズリョウイキノタンキュカラツクラレタ、ムゲンカツエイゾクテキナハタラキデハタラクリアルタイムノユウキテキナシステムカラツクラレテイマス。コンピューティングノカンテンカラハ、シカクテキ二ランダムナノイズトマスタリングサレタノイズノアイダニクベツハナイ。ドチラモ、ワタシタチノノウガシンゴウトシテニンシキスルオナジアルゴリズムノシュツリョクデアル。タマシイノカンテンカラハ、ソノチガイハチカクノチガイデアリ、ワタシタチニンゲンガナニヲモッテ「タノシイ」「チカクデキル」「キョウミヲソソラレル」トハンダンスルカトイウコトデス。

コノコウダイナカオスノパンデモニウム二ハ、タンサク、カンサツ、ソシテモジュレーションガジュウヨウナカギトナリマス。コノセカイサイコウノインスピレーションノナカデ、ワタシタチガスデニカンサツシテルカタチヲサイケイセイスルタメノソウゾウテキナプロセス。シゼン。

コノインスピレーションハ、[Fushi no reality / フシノゲンジツ]ヲ、ジョウキセンノビガク、ユックリトシタハタラキ、オダヤカナシキチョウヲマゼタフウケイガヤクロスアートニムカワセマシタ。コウセンハソレゾレノチョウゲンジツヲトオリヌケ、フウケイヲヨコギルスウジンノコウカイタマシイヲミチビキマス。ポートレートヤフウケイナド、チョウゲンジツハリョウホウノホウホウデテンジサレルコトヲイトシテアリ、カンショウシャハジェネレーティブナヌノノウズマキヤSFテキナワクセイノフウケイヲナガメルコトガデキマス。

ヨリボウケンテキナヒトハ、カーソルノウエカシタカニハタラカシテ、ヨリハヤイイヤシノタイケンヲスルコトモデキマス。
ヘイワヲモタラスノハジブンジシンダケデスガ、コンカイハイッショニタビヲシテミマショウ。

Fushi No Reality - フシノゲンジツ

Paths is an animated journey across various subterranean and aboveground environments. To fully experience the project, you need to see it in high resolution with a capable GPU. Make sure that your browser uses your dedicated graphics card if any, and that you get a good frame rate. Control keys: 1-4 (change speed), 9 (fill aspect ratio), 0 (original aspect ratio), space-bar (play/pause)

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