Silentium
Story He stopped speaking long before they took his voice. The cult called it devotion, to suffer in silence was to be reborn. But silence followed him home, into every room, every mirror. He learned to inject it, to breathe it in, to make the world fade for a few minutes. Still, the past hums beneath his skin. the shaved head, the whispered prayers, the sound of chains clinking like lullabies. He doesn’t want forgiveness. He only wants the noise to stop.
Artist’s Reflection Silentium came from the thought of how silence can be both armor and cage. Some people carry their screams for so long that the world forgets they’re still echoing inside. This piece is a small moment inside that echo, a person so haunted by memory that even death refuses to take them. It’s about the exhaustion of surviving when you no longer want to.
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.