Artist | Building a collector grade NFT banner collection | Angels, Numbers, Ancient Machines, and the Ethereal Circuit | Process in Public | Art First
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Few artists make art for the profile banner. Ever catch yourself looking at it first when you visit someone's page?
It's because the banner has the capacity to say something more. It's the reason I chose it as the canvas for my collection.
Four years ago I started designing this collection with a developer I was lucky to find- he wanted to create something new in this space as badly as I did. We hashed out concepts, refined them, got to work. By 2023 the moment seemed to pass; everyone was convinced NFTs had peaked, and the majority moved on.
I stopped. Put the project down. Picked it back up. Made revisions, kept researching. Over time I just kept coming back to it. I couldn't let it go. Maybe it wasn't meant for back then, but for right now.
It's built on a communication system reaching for something higher- angels and aliens, numbers, ancient machines. On the rarest pieces, an ethereal circuit completes itself, and the art connects to its owner.
I'm making it in the open. No countdowns, no hype. Art first.
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In July I shared a loop that almost every four digit number falls into. It ends in 6174.
The longest it ever takes is seven steps.
Kaprekar's birth year takes all seven.
ALT Kaprekar's constant starting at 1905. Seven subtraction steps ending at 6174.
There is something strange that can happen with four digit numbers.
Pick a set that doesn't have all the same digit, then put them in order from biggest to smallest. Now make them smallest to biggest. Subtract the small number from the larger number. Take your answer and do the same thing over and over again.
Eventually you will get 6174 and you are now trapped in a loop. This outcome exists within almost every four digit number. Seven steps at the most.
This loop is called Kaprekar's constant.
Here it is with 1234.
4321 - 1234 = 3087
8730 - 0378 = 8352
8532 - 2358 = 6174
Try it out on a number that is relevant to you. Did you make it out?
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She isn't looking outward. She is looking in.
ALT A winged angel with pale blue skin and closed eyes holds a glowing green chakra plasma orb in both hands. She wears a tall red and purple beaded headdress. Behind her is the planet mercury, ringed with dark blue circles and symbols, on a starry blue and green sky.
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Happy lunar eclipse in Pisces!
ALT A blue-skinned angel with closed eyes and long blonde hair, wearing a crown of leaves, hands raised at her chest. She sits inside a circular emblem upon the moon with white symbols and geometric lines against a dark blue star field.
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Anxiousness, the load you carry on your shoulder. Apprehension, the one you carry in your heart.
Feet on uneven ground. Hands clasped, unwilling to reach for help. No path, no signs, no brace to lean on.
The key is balance. Partnership is how it is reached. The pull to choose money and career, or love and family, is what tips it. Do not drop one for the other. Each is the other's counterweight. Through this, you steady. The ground goes back to being what it always was. Infinite possibility.
ALT 2620 in hammered brass and gems on a starry blue field.
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Lots of concern out there about history repeating itself.
The most valuable thing that will make you money is the thing you won't want to sell.
It's valuable, as long as those who don't have it desire it.
There is a reason why they desire it, and that's the artist's job, not the collector's.
The artist and developer have to bake that reason in from the very beginning.
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My blindfolded angel sending out her call. These are proofs, put together by hand. The collection itself is generated from traits I'm working on. Check out the full size.
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Working on a new background. A lightning field with a tornado trait. The sky is getting to where I want it. The tornado isn't there yet. Still finding its shape. Maybe some Wizard of Oz for inspiration.
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Robocop is an inspiration for this border. That 1980s stainless steel with blue and purple reflections dazzled the rods and cones in my eyeballs when I first saw it.
The rest came from thinking about Cuicuilco while I was sketching. Their pyramid was round and a volcano buried the site under lava.
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There is something strange that can happen with four digit numbers.
Pick a set that doesn't have all the same digit, then put them in order from biggest to smallest. Now make them smallest to biggest. Subtract the small number from the larger number. Take your answer and do the same thing over and over again.
Eventually you will get 6174 and you are now trapped in a loop. This outcome exists within almost every four digit number. Seven steps at the most.
This loop is called Kaprekar's constant.
Here it is with 1234.
4321 - 1234 = 3087
8730 - 0378 = 8352
8532 - 2358 = 6174
Try it out on a number that is relevant to you. Did you make it out?
When I started this border I didn't know if the tree would end up covered by another trait or not. Sometimes you just have to start drawing.
Turns out, an ancient machine sits fixed in front of it on every banner it will grace. You'll never see this tree in its entirety, but the effort is still under there.
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Work in progress: the sacred Greek city of Delphi is nearly done. (Not every trait layer is active here, typically I work with a few layers off when building a site.)
Many sites I've chosen are bound to higher learning or enlightenment. Others have a secret buried beneath them. Delphi has both, in spades!
Beyond the spot where the oracle sat, you have underground springs, intersecting fault lines, and (some argue) a network of passages never fully disclosed to the public. Choosing the right sites was the first big decision I faced on this project. Graham Hancock, of course, was a big influence.
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*Brushing the crickets away in my feed* Last week's day job was ROUGH! Spent the holiday weekend on strategy and rarity tables-and still the art calls to me; this week I must obey.
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The ancient machines I have been working on take inspiration from the Urza’s Power Plant cards within Magic the Gathering. Who didn’t have an imagination jump start from viewing these amazing pieces of art? Specific machines in this collection will relate to specific ancient sites- some sites and their corresponding machines will end up together when generated-of course that doesn’t happen for everyone, but will happen for some!
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In this collection, numbers aren't decoration, they are messages. They are what some call angel numbers.
They can provide specific insight due to each number being given a specific meaning. The first number providing the overall theme and the next numbers providing additional context , instruction, etc.
In this collection, when certain numbers line up, their stones glow and the circuit awakens.
The numbers are the key.
What you send out, returns.
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