Exanimis
Story She keeps washing her hands, but the water never runs clear. Beneath her skin, the memory still breathes, the weight of a heart that wasn’t hers, the warmth fading too slowly. They called it salvation, that night by the buried lake, where the water whispered the names of those it kept, when the water turned red and the air smelled like iron and incense. Years later, the stain remains, whispering that the ritual isn’t done. So she finishes it alone, with quiet hands and steady breath, baptizing herself in the same silence she once escaped.
Artist’s Reflection Exanimis came from that feeling you get when guilt starts to rot into faith. When you’ve lived with a memory so long, it starts speaking for you. I kept seeing her washing her hands, not to cleanse, but because the memory clung to her skin. Every scrub was a prayer to a god she could no longer name
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.