Växt

Tengil

150 unique artworks

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Växt
Can an image invoke memories of scent?

Växt (Growth/Plant) is an attempt at two things; on one hand capturing the emotion of walking in a garden, on another it is an exercise in combining micro and macro in a single canvas. With this series, I want to provoke your senses to associate the artworks with scents, flowers, plants, nature, gardens.

Can it be done?

What is the essence of a garden?

The visual expression of Växt is founded in exploration of shapes, colour and texture. How multiple shapes interact to create a composition greater than the sum of its parts, just like a planting of complementary flowers in a garden yields an inspiring composition or how light trickles through the leaves of a tree. How the colours ebb and flow over seasons and how combinations and shades cause our minds to fetch old memories as we create new ones. How texture can be used to provide depth and allow the eye to relax.

What if the motif fades into the distance when you lean in closer?

Växt is a continuation in the artistic journey of Tengil. Strong inspiration from nature combined with thoughts on the digital world combine to form thought-provoking artworks that give more the longer and closer one looks. From afar, the pieces explore the boundaries of abstraction. They provoke memories of scent using visual stimulus. Up close, there is a microcosmos of texture reminiscent of vast mountains aiming to bring balance and ground the scenes in familiar terrain.

Technically, the algorithm is a "meta-algorithm". Code (Javascript) writes code (webGL) which is executed to produce the final artworks.

RELEASE DATE

24 Jan 2024

LIBRARY

js@na

DISPLAY NOTES

Press 's' to save a png file. Press 'r' to rotate the image. Append '?h=X' to render at a given height. Append '?pr=X' to force a pixel ratio.

CREATIVE CREDITS

Thank you to Matt DesLauriers for tiny-artblocks, Stefan Gustavson and Ian McEwan for psrdnoise and Inigo Quilez for the SDFs!

RELEASE DETAILS

150 works released with Exponential Dutch auction with settlement on 24 Jan 2024

CHARITABLE GIVING

5% of primary and 10% of secondary proceeds will be donated via smart contract to Plant A Million Corals, a non-profit dedicated to saving coral reefs through restoration efforts.

PROJECT ID

0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069-488

CONTRACT

Etherscan

488000110

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Tengil

b. Sweden Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden

In southern Sweden, Tengil crafts generative algorithms rooted in concepts, emotions, memories, and questions, visually represented based on naturally inspired algorithmic abstraction.

His works have been exhibited at the Koami Art Festival in Gothenburg and Vellum in Los Angeles.

Tengil is an artistic autodidact with an engineering and marine ecolog...

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