C4 retweeted
This project is wildly cool and deeply inspiring. I couldn’t be more honored to be one of the 20 collaborators @5tr4n0 asked to be a part of it. Beyond being a creative visionary he is also quite the community builder/ bridge maker. He is also a wonderfully thoughtful friend to so many here. Many times just as I was feeling myself to be an outsider, Strano would not just tell me but show me how he felt otherwise. He has brought me into numerous circles of support & brilliance. He made me feel like my work mattered and I could tell that he genuinely understood it & loved it. The feeling is so mutual and I can only hope to show him the type of support he has shown me & so many others.
The irony of this project is despite its somewhat dystopian premise, to me it showcases what is absolutely irreplaceable about human connection, perception and creation.
All the flowers to you today my friend.
Hats off to @TransientLabs as well!
I hope you all spend some time with this collection today & if you have the means, get yourself a worm or two or ten 🤩 mint is live!
C4 retweeted
when kicking off the project, @TransientLabs asked me if I work with generative art, because the idea involved a large number of artworks to be created
“I'm no coder" I said, “but biting off more than I can chew is my way of working; I'll do it manually.”
so one-by-one, I threw pixels on a canvas, broke them, animated them, refined the colors and swapped textures; with intention, until each felt right
on top of that, I pull out my Wacom tablet, sampled parts of the gifs and hand-drew the w0rms, there is something deeply personal and human in that gesture imo
so yeah, this was ambitious, but im here for that
alright, I went a bit mad at one point, felt like I was myself turning into a robot
but looking back now I feel its even more pertinent to the core idea of the project
“I used to make art for humans”
going live on October 15th
check out artforhumans(dot)xyz
C4 retweeted
gm! 🖼️
Excited to reveal a new medium that we’ve been working on for the past year!
Fragments from The Wild Within, 2026
These hand-cut glass mosaic wall sculptures originate from Soviet-era flower postcards that we discovered scattered across the floor of an abandoned post office in Georgia.
Their vivid, idealized imagery appeared strangely alive within the deteriorating architecture, becoming an early catalyst for The Wild Within and its imagined return of colour and life to forgotten spaces.
Translating the postcards into glass connects them to the symbolic mosaics and architectural surfaces found throughout many of the buildings that we have explored.
Each hand-cut tessera also recalls a digital pixel, linking the ancient language of mosaic to the project’s digital origins.
Hand-cut glass tesserae and grout, mounted on Dibond and framed in pine
11.8 × 15.7 in. (30 × 40 cm)
On view at The Wild Within exhibition
September 10 – October 22
Leila Heller Gallery
22 East 80th Street
New York City
