Flowers Project
In their physical form, flowers signify a transient circle of life: from seed to growth, to eventual bloom and death. In digital form, these flowers become immortal.
The production of Flowers is rooted in a deliberate, material practice: each plant was individually sourced, hand-selected, physically staged, and photographed. I then treated the resultant images using a process of analog interference via a custom CRT circuit-bending setup introducing unpredictable distortions and signal feedback.
Each digital Flower operates as a dynamic object whose state is determined by on-chain logic. Specifically, the project leverages Chainlink's decentralized ETH/USD oracle to assess market fluctuations. The contract compares the current value of Ether to its previous day's price. An inversion where decline, rather than appreciation, prompts the work's final state, and which draws uneasy connections between the natural and artificial cycles that govern our lives.
