Searching Still [Mountain]

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The artworks from the series ‘Searching Still’ observe elusive and intangible sensations such as the feelings of a memory, a longing or a searching.

With these compositions the artist strikes a balance between the machine and the human touch, creating fluid painterly forms from hard-edge digital artifacts. Created on a Raspberry Pi using Python code, selected carefully by the artist from 800+ outputs.

This series of artworks draw parallels with early abstract pieces by Hilma af Klint whose compositions originated from a place of divination. In her work the artist acted akin to a spiritual medium, opening herself to the influence of unseen forces, and creating surprising compositions for their own sake.

This is not unlike the trust that generative artists put in their pseudorandom number generators. Artists creating abstract work using generative techniques gather their tools, open their minds, and let chance drive the composition. The visual language in ‘Searching Still’ carries forward from the histories of abstract art, but also continues a conceptual lineage of intentionally opening oneself to infinite possibilities.


Contract address
Medium
Image (jpg)
Blockchain
Ethereum
Token standard
ERC_721

Provenance


  • Transferred to 0xd50...daD5D
    March 15, 2023 at 11:28am
  • Transferred off-platform to 0x3c9...b4c03
    February 21, 2023 at 10:21pm
  • won by lemonde2d
    January 25, 2023 at 6:04pm
    $8,500
    )
  • Minted on the Ethereum blockchain
    January 23, 2023 at 5:06pm