Activation in Motion

I wanted to share a bit of my thinking behind IOR, my work for Searching for Balance. When @MCHX17 asked me to contribute to this auction, I thought about my current obsession with "virtual glassware": reflection, refraction, absorption. It's a very fertile terrain for me, as it allows me to experiment with shapes that would not be conceivable IRL, but also it opens up experimentation with regards to different indices of refraction, which command how light bends as it enters a new material. A different train of thought was also going through my mind. I think a lot about the political situation, here in the US and around the world, and how difficult it has become for people of either side to talk to the other side. In the US, the left and right are traditionally represented by the blue and red colors. For a long time I've wanted to make a work that represents this divide, but also inspires to break away from it. In IOR, the blue and red dominate the background, but the glass vessel shows both colors going through it as the camera moves around. Maybe this suggest that, with a little change of perspective, we could understand other people's views better? This is not pretending to be a solution of any kind, but just a reminder that our point of view is not universal. Finally, the shape itself is made from simple operations. Rather than refine a perfect curve, I'm making volume through boolean operations: here, a torus is subtracted from a sphere, and the subtraction is smoothed. Again, the idea is not to get perfection, but to rediscover how simple principles can yield (hopefully) beautiful results. Sorry for the long text, I hope you learned something about the way I think about my work. Thanks for reading!

gm! I'm packing for Marfa. How many 🌵🌵🌵 should I put in my bag? -- Desert Syntax - Oct 24 - Artist Fair ---

The desert is the message 🌵🖤

Index Of Refraction (IOR) - a 3D animation created and rendered entirely with code, including the soundtrack - this comes with a spatial video made for Apple Vision Pro!

the desert is calling 🌵🖤📚 -> sound ON 🔊 DESERT SYNTAX - Marfa by @aethersovereign and myself

Thrilled to be selected for the October edition of @artontezos_ 's ACTZ ! The theme is texture, and right now I'm leaning towards a very free interpretation of what that means for 3d.. Many thanks to @HashSosaHash for the selection 🖤

the desert is waiting 🌵🖤

Come write a book with us in Marfa. 🌵🖤📚 Everyone brings a word, the machine writes the next page. Every page goes onchain the moment it's written. Desert Syntax - Saturday Oct 24 - Artist Fair @artblocks_io

This is absolutely awesome for those of us who made stuff in the 2000s!

happy Sunday! Another fun little weekend experiment..