Vulnera
Story To belong, she was told she must become a monster. To climb the ladder in her new family, she had to feed the fire with a living soul, a choice she made despite her own fear. Now, that fire never stops burning inside her. It’s a memory that follows her from the dark corners of her childhood to this final, quiet room. The leader’s promises turned to ash, leaving only the screaming ghost of her victim. Some stains cannot be washed away, only carved out with a knife, a final cut to silence the guilt for good.
Artist’s Reflection Vulnera is about the kind of belonging that costs your soul. I wanted to capture that strange, almost sacred violence of surrendering yourself just to feel seen. There’s a ritual in every human; some bleed to be accepted, others to be forgiven. This piece is for those who were told that love had to hurt first.
Technical Process The process began by crafting still compositions inside Unreal Engine 5, carefully building each scene’s mood and structure. These stills were then stylized using a custom Stable Diffusion model I trained on my own Midjourney artworks, allowing the visual language to stay personal and recognizably mine. Once styled, the images were upscaled in Leonardo for clarity before being brought to life using Kling and Luma AI
Sound design carried equal weight. The music was composed using Suno AI and Udio AI, with lyrics co-written through ChatGPT, shaped to match the emotional pulse of each story. The final sequences were rendered in Deforum, using ControlNets to merge motion, atmosphere, and narrative, turning stillness into something that breathes.
About the contract Each piece in this collection is minted on the ERC-7160 standard, meaning collectors receive two unique variations of the artwork to choose from, each one slightly different in tone, light, and emotion. Through Transient Labs, collectors can also inscribe their own story directly into the NFT, leaving a fragment of themselves within the work, continuing its cycle of memory and confession.