A dreamlike scene that refers to the vast array of living organisms that inhabit the oceans along with other landscapes on Earth in the same frame. A connection to the idea of exploring the depths of our own minds with a “mycelium-like network of interconnected wonderlands” overlaps with the references of bio-animations and moving images that demonstrate biological systems, processes, and behaviors. The artist creates a biological realm and even a third context in which fiction and science overlap by distancing from their own settings. At the same time, the juxtaposing elements that are contrasting or unexpected in the NFT in relation to their environments create a sense of wonder and curiosity.

A realm within our subconscious where the boundless creativity of the human imagination is free to manifest itself into alternative realities. The creation of organic abstract lifeforms and dreamscapes born from our thoughts are given form in a way that is both tangible and interactive, allowing us to enter and explore the collective dreams of everybody we are connect to through the energy surrounding us. Offering endless possibilities of self-discovery, it allows us to explore the depths of our own minds and of those around us though a mycelium like network of interconnected wonderlands. 

Crafted with love & care by hand in Houdini.
Sound also by Onyro.

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Cellular Transfusion

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) - 1

Whether or not they exist we're slaves to the gods

The intersecting modalities of presenting art and natural sciences have a longstanding history, especially through institutionalized venues, hence, “defining” and “accessing” the knowledge that both disciplines generate have been conditioned by the terms of these institutionalized environments. These environments have always been portrayed in relation to *an idea* of a presence of a “place/venue,” which creates a background of an aggregation of validified and recognized settings. This *idea* has inevitably been coded by the politics of representation. Regardless of multiple connections between and beyond art and natural sciences, these two disciplines and the content of the displayed *subject*, once it comes to representation, the knowledge is always generated through the setting as the extension of the very *idea* that sets the context. Yet, by harnessing blockchain technology, an NFT uses the digital medium to create an autonomous environment that is totally detached from its context and the presence of its setting, which refers to a structured and controlled environment. By isolating the *subject*, the NFT semantically cuts the relationships between different pieces of information and creates a temporary “non-place,” to use Marc Augé’s term.


But what is the context that an NFT suggests? Could such a fictive and heterotopic mode of presentation propose a new *perception* and *definition* of an ecosystem of a third context? The examples below  deliberately use *visual extracts* or *fragments* of cliché aesthetics of scientific and medical experiments and operations. In the same line of inquiry, is it possible to read this tendency as an ideological manifestation of this third context?

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