“When there’s anything to steal, I steal.” — Pablo Picasso The original ideas evolved by these artistic canons tell very different stories in the history of post war American art. My approach however is more about just stealing from the visual lexicon of mark-making that characterizes these movements ignoring much of the contextual conversations around these works. I’ve never had…

The birth of an authentic internet native art in a new decentralized world — The authors background and biases Full disclosure: I am a long form generative artist and so I have an emotional bias and financial incentive to promote LFGArt. I should also be clear I have no qualification as an art historian or technologist and haven’t even been engaged with either world…

Attempting to find deep color variety in longform generative art — For those not technically inclined I recommend just reading the introduction and conclusion where I have tried to keep the focus on more general concerns of the generative art genre. …

Fontana : Latin for fountain Fontana core theme Fontana is a playful attempt at abstractly capturing the flowing movement of a fountain using precisely drawn elements that evoke a static and considered rendering of a subject that is in constant flux. The visual language is reminiscent of hand-draughted technical drawing, a precise and…

Second 10 of 30 — I see a collision between planets in this output. A key intention in this project was to create structures and textures that might be seen as objects on a micro or macro scale. As the photon travels at the speed-of-light, time and space to this elementary particle is not as…

First 10 of 30 selected mints — I’m sequentially going through the 404 mints of Photon’s Dream and writing a paragraph for each mint that stands out to me as being the the most complete, most arresting and sometimes most surprising expressions of the algorithm. I am grateful to all who have supported the project and I…

Drops 15th June ~ Artblocks.io A photon is a particle representing a quantum of light. Because it travels at the speed-of-light, time and space as we understand it do not exist for this elementary particle. The Big Bang was less than an instant ago for the photon and yet it…

One artist’s perspective on NFT artwork attributes — Who is this article written for The makers, buyers and facilitators of long form generative art. This article anticipates the reader has some basic knowledge of this emerging genre. For a 101 introduction into longform generative art I recommend reading Tyler Hobb’s excellent essay The rise of long form generative art. My hope in sharing some…