Emergence
Emergence came out of a wanting to avoid the even backgrounds of my earlier work, something I had also rebelled against with Storms. Apart from this, it is also the first time I play with depth cues in my pieces, which up until now had been very flat. However, there is no real 3D at play in this series — only layer after layer of thresholded noise in different slices that adds up to a feeling of clouds.
The aesthetic inspiration for the series came from the idea of geometric shapes and structures being born out of primordial clouds as the world came to be. I wanted to establish mathematical relations as an eternal truth through the imagery as math and geometry play an important part of my artistic vocabulary.
I’m sure there are more efficient ways to make volumetric clouds. But at the time, this made sense. And there is a certain beauty in approximating something through very simple means that may not be computationally efficient but instead very easy to explain. And doing it in a different way allows you to have controls that are not there if you try to replicate reality. This control was further explored in Entrance.
Blockchain information
This series predates my entrance into the world of NFTs, but a single piece (4783) was minted as part of my first forray into ethereum NFTs
| Chain | Ethereum |
| Contract Address | 0x3B3ee1931Dc30C1957379FAc9aba94D1C48a5405 |
| Platform | Foundation |
| Token Standard | ERC-721 |
| Token ID | 69109 |