Marfa, it’s over! Thank you so much to everyone who visited us at the Artist Fair! You contributed wonderful words and added powerful chapters to the Desert Syntax story. 🙏🖤🌵 Next: the generative book, ETA Nov 21st! Merci! Gracias! Thank you! With @aethersovereign

1st chapter written by none other than @OGtheperson the legend (and the person) - thanks for playing 🙏🖤

🌵Desert Syntax : see you today from 11am to 3pm at the Artist Fair in Marfa! 🔖 Bring your bookmark (or pick a new one)! with @aethersovereign

following the journey. 🌵

gm Marfa! did you get your bookmark? 🔖 -> desertsyntax.com with @aethersovereign

happy to see Regenerate resurface! 🩷💙 thank you Ivana!

Balance is everything 🧑‍🩰

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!