Nude Abstract is an invitation to explore the human form with playful eyes. The collection showcases my painted and abstract figures, displayed in a unique way. What's more, the closer you look at each piece, the more layers are revealed, offering a truly immersive and mesmerizing experience.

Nude Abstract #26

Ayla 🌊

Canvas III: Yorkshire Farm

Presenting the Miami Beach Art Collection, a collection of NTFs inspired by three powerful themes that speak to Playboy’s past, present, and future: Miami, crypto-currency, and the iconic Playboy Rabbit Head logo, which has served as a source of inspiration for artists for nearly 70 years. An expanded version of a digital exhibit previewed to thousands of Crypto enthusiasts at BTC 2021 Miami, the collection features original works by Ayla El-Moussa, REK0DE, Jon Noorlander and MBSJQ, and an original heritage photograph unearthed from the Playboy Archives, featuring a Playboy Bunny pictured water-skiing outside of the Miami Playboy Club in 1970, courtesy of the Playboy Archives. The Miami Beach Art Collection is Playboy’s first curation partnership with SuperRare.


Ride the Wave by Playboy x Ayla El-Moussa

This series, titled "Integration of Opposites," emerges as a visual philosophy that delves deep into an odyssey of contrasts — from form vs abstraction, male vs female, body vs mind, life vs death, and day vs night. Each piece in this series serves as an investigation to try and understand the balance of dualities: a reminder that life doesn’t work in absolutes but in the delicate interplay between Yin and Yang.

'Opus 1' starts the journey and acts as a blueprint for the series. Reminiscent of an hourglass, this piece hints at the cyclical nature of time and our place in the universe. Employing 24-carat gold to evoke the warmth of the sun (symbolizing body and heart) and silver, the ethereal metal of the moon (representing mind and subconscious), the inverted triangle, an ancient alchemical signifier of femininity, holds within it the flesh form of the body (gold).  Below, the triangle encompasses an abstracted form, leading us to dive into our subconscious minds (silver). These geometric shapes are set against a backdrop of two distinct colors, yet if you look closely, there are many layers to uncover; you need only sit, contemplate, and discover the messages within. 

Opus 1

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Fire and water, two elements that sculpt the planet we exist on. 
With the curves of her body creating a canyon of desire, she flows like water able to sustain all life while at her core rests a fire, awaiting its spark.When she ignites, she rises from the ashes and what burns can prevail throughout eternity.
For more info on this piece please go to: https://aylanft.com/flame-of-the-canyon

شعلة الوادي (Fire Of The Canyon)

As a token of my gratitude, I present to you the first volume of my Artists Catalogue. Something to keep for the archives & also a way for me to document the works I have created within each calendar year.

I want to thank my 2021 1/1 holders for supporting me on this journey.

Artists Catalogue #11/14

Allegorical Figure of Day & Night is my first reactive piece. It follows the earth's pattern and will transition at sunset and sunrise from its day form to night form based on geolocation.  
The cyclical pattern of the day transforming into night and back is coded into our existence. Our physical state, mental state and the countless processes our bodies carry out are all governed by nature’s circadian rhythms.  

The sun rising (the day) represents new life and possibilities for the conscience mind.  
As day gives way to night with its all-enveloping darkness, the symbolism transitions into a more introspective calm. The conscious mind prepares to rest while the subconscious awakens in our dreams—a delicate play of yin and yang. As light beckons to life and death invites everlasting darkness, the two join together to create a state of equilibrium.  

Allegorical Figure of Day & Night is synchronized to transform with the rising and setting of the sun, representing these natural shifts that govern so much in our lives. It is a reminder that we run not on our manufactured clocks but on nature's time, and we need to respect it.  

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Allegorical Figure of Day & Night

Artists Catalogue #10/14

As a token of my gratitude, I present to you the first volume of my Artists Catalogue. 
Something to keep for the archives & also a way for me to document the works I have created within each calendar year.

Thank you to all my 1/1 collectors who are supporting me along this wonderful journey. 

Artists Catalogue-2021

Prima Materia

Nude Abstract #27

Nude Abstracts is an invitation to explore the human form with playful eyes. The collection of 69 self portraits showcases my painted and abstracted body. What's more, the closer you look at each piece, the more layers are revealed, offering a truly dynamic and immersive experience.


Nude Abstract #66

Nude Abstracts

Canvas VI:  California Red Sands

Self portrait on route to Landmannalaugar

Canvas V: Somewhere Near Landmannalaugar

Century Series V2

To all those who believed in me, Thank you.  
🌊🌊💎

Waves of Gratitude

To all those who believed in me. 
Thank you. 🌊🌊💎

Mirror mirror on the wall...  
Who is the waviest of them all?

MIRROR MIRROR

Ayla

Seek and you shall find: As the setting sun casts the last pinnacles of light, I lay along the curves of ancient rocks, the tone of my skin blending into the cool textures. Exhale and remember we are all part of nature. A portion of all profits will be donated to the Oceanic Society. Please follow this link to learn more about the collection. https://www.aylaelmoussanft.com/i-wear-the-sunset-1

Woman on Rocks

There is nothing more timeless than a nude woman in nature.

Woman on Cliff

SuperRare

As a tribute to the beginning of my moving art work I am culminating my Genesis Collection with Bodyscape III. Created in 2017, this piece amassed over 2 million views across Instagram. This is an OG Ayla El-Moussa self portrait and I am beyond excited for it to live on the blockchain.

Learn more about this piece, who I am as an artist & watch BTS of this Genesis Collection here: 
https://www.aylaelmoussanft.com/bodyscape-iii

A portion of the profits will be donated to Oceanic Society. 

Bodyscape III

Bodyscape i is the first in a three-part series exploring the ocean as a metaphor for the unconscious mind.  A portion of the initial sales from this NFT will be donated to the @oceansociety.
"The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." —Carl Sagan


Bodyscape i

Foundation

Immersing myself in an old scene with new details, the painted muse's final act sparks more questions than answers. Through the fusion of photography and digital paint, I create the illusion of a marble statue, immortalizing my creativity in a piece that resonates with the timeless allure of ancient beauty.

Scene 3

Photograph, Digitally Hand Painted with Oil

Scene 1 is my tribute to the timeless beauty of classical and contemporary techniques. By hand painting over my self-portrait using digital paints, I blended traditional mediums with modern technology, drawing inspiration from the Romantic and Renaissance painters to create my painted muse.

I hope that she captivates and inspires all who view her.

Scene 1

The Painted Muse

The first moving art work of 2023.  
What do you see?

Hymn of Aphrodite

Ayla Atelier

This series, titled "Integration of Opposites," emerges as a visual philosophy that delves deep into an odyssey of contrasts — from form vs abstraction, male vs female, body vs mind, life vs death, and day vs night. Each piece in this series serves as an investigation to try and understand the balance of dualities: a reminder that life doesn’t work in absolutes but in the delicate interplay between Yin and Yang.

Integration of Opposites

Open you eyes and see, a Lone bird in flight.

A Lone Bird

A lone tree in an English Moore 
Photograph & Digital Paint

A Lone Tree

Open Your Eyes & See

Dive into her Wavy World 
Digital oil paint on Photograph

Dame De La Mer: II

Dive into her Wavy World
Digital oil paint on Photograph

Dame De La Mer: I

Dame de La Mer

Drawing from the art of ancient Egypt, my pose  is reminiscent of sculptures that grace the walls of pharaoh's tombs.
Central to its design is the inverted triangle, an alchemical sign denoting both water and the divine feminine.

By day, the waves of the ocean flow through, a testament to the pulse of natures ebb and flow.
At night, the fire reveals our inner desires and the very anatomy we all collectively have beneath our surface.

Sacred Forms & Geometric Shapes

Natural Forms & Geometric Shapes

Working on Her

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Nude Pixels in Nature

A solitary female stands in a vibrant lush landscape, her expectant gaze fixed on the horizon, symbolizing our collective anticipation of the future. The world she surveys is an intriguing mix of clarity and obscurity, with a sky seamlessly merging the ocean's depth and the cloud's drift; is she waking from a dream?
The pervasive mist serves as a metaphor for an enigmatic yet undeniable future and the only way is forward.

A Woman in the Mist

A solitary female stands in a vibrant lush landscape, her expectant gaze fixed on the horizon, symbolizing our collective anticipation of the future. The world she surveys is an intriguing mix of clarity and obscurity, with a sky seamlessly merging the ocean's depth and the cloud's drift; is she waking from a dream?

The pervasive mist serves as a metaphor for an enigmatic yet undeniable future and the only way is forward.

A Woman in the Mist by Ayla El-Moussa

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A collection of 40 Self portraits reimagined. The closer you look the less you see.

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Dissolution | White

Process: Dissolve the ashes in water.
Psychological: Explore the unconscious to reveal the hidden self.


No. 2

 Calcination | Black

Process: Burn the substance to ashes.
Psychological: Let go of ego and materialistic focus.


No. 1

Prelude To Integration: The Seven Stages

In her latest of work, Source Code, Ayla revisits the elemental forces that have shaped her creativity from the start: the ocean and the body. Over the last three years, Ayla has drawn viewers ever closer into her increasingly more abstracted world. The human figure, once shown in its entirety, now emerges as painterly fragments; to her, it symbolizes what she calls “mining the subconscious.”

“I’ve discovered that the more I push away from the literal image, the closer I get to the essence of my muse,” she explains. “My work is finished when I no longer see myself in it—when it transcends me and becomes purely about Her.” This new work marks the first major piece of 2025 “Its a reminder of where it all began,” she says, “the perpetual motion of the waves and the ever-evolving capacity of the body. Those two elements are the foundation of all my art.”

Ayla makes no grand statements—rather, she leads us back to the reason we began looking in the first place: a nostalgic reflection on the journey so far and a bold stride toward what lies ahead. She summons us to the essential wellspring of creativity—Her Source Code.

Source Code

Alpha Waves 
A dynamic painting that moves through four distinct tonal states, the work reveals one version each week then gives way to another, chosen at random so as not to repeat the same sequence. 

Four times a year on the solstices and equinoxes all four states converge in a unified grid. A rare alignment. 

Alpha Waves is the evolution of an earlier work, Salt & Skin, which shall be gifted to the collector so they too can be part of this visual story and see the clear artistic evolution.

Created using layered photography, digital painting, drone imagery, and hand-textured treatments.

Alpha Waves

Water, Salt, and Flesh, the base elements to our existence.  Our bodies, like the earth, are shaped by time, memory, and the tides. The raw canvas, left exposed, becomes a surface of excavation, a skin of its own. Within the work, the presence of form gently underscores the circular power of creation- the unfinished imperfections of life, birth and death - mirrored against the eternal rhythm of the waves.

Two central themes guided this work: the unfinished and perception. There is no invitation here, only a command—
see it, sit with it, return to it. 
At first, it resists. The gaze wavers, not immediately settled by the colors, the textures, the way the water alludes to be seen from beneath rather than above.  I wanted this to be a piece you wrestle with, something that does not submit immediately but unfolds over time, and like the ocean, it asks you to come back, again and again and again.

Salt & Skin

Marbled By The Waves a printed work that is accompanied by the digital counterpart in collaboration with SuperRare.

Marbled By The Waves

Only visible when our waking mind lets go

Ego Without A Face

In The Process Of Becoming

Gaurdians

Guardians are only visible when our waking mind lets go

In the Process of Becoming

Mare of the Fifth Night

Guardians

Opus 2 is an exploration of opposites; a yin and yang of form and abstraction that moves between life and death, sun and moon, male and female. Gold and silver speak to the alchemy of transformation, from the base to the enlightened. Blue drifts toward the realm of water and the subconscious, while earth toned sands anchor us to the physical. Together, they become the integration of opposites that defines Opus 2.

Opus 2

A Digital Alchemy; A Journey of Transformation

Prelude To Integration: The Seven Stages is Ayla El-Moussa’s latest collection, featuring seven unique 1/1 artworks. Developed over several months, this series  includes Ayla's first integration of embellished works on paper. For the first time, Ayla will offer individually painted prints, each distinguished by color that serve as symbolic refrence to the Seven Stages of Alchemy. These stages draw upon an ancient philosophy aimed at achieving spiritual enlightenment by metaphorically transforming base metals into gold. Historically, alchemy was the precursor to modern chemistry, primarily concerned with converting materials like copper and lead into precious metals such as gold and silver.  

The Seven Stages:
1. Calcination (Black)
Process: Burn the substance to ashes.
Psychological: Let go of ego and materialistic focus.
2. Dissolution (White)
Process: Dissolve the ashes in water.
Psychological: Explore the unconscious to reveal the hidden self.
3. Separation (Red)
Process: Filter out impurities.
Psychological: Assess and learn from personal flaws and strengths.
4. Conjunction (Yellow)
Process: Combine purified elements.
Psychological: Integrate different aspects of the self, discovering authenticity.
5. Fermentation (Green)
Process: Break down substances with microbes.
Psychological: Embrace life's trials to foster growth.
6. Distillation (Blue)
Process: Evaporate and condense to purify further.
Psychological: Refine the spirit, moving past the ego.
7. Coagulation (Purple)
Process: Solidify the purified substance.
Psychological: Achieve an enlightened state, transcending limitations.
Press Release  
* Painted works on paper included with each winning bid. Any bids over 2.5 will recive a complimentary framed work.  
* Please allow 6-8 week production time.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6101a380c153524dd6a64537/t/66233e7424b9fa5f8b60a085/1713585809275/SevenStagesPR.pdf

Open Your Eyes & See: A Lone Bird 

Melding traditional photography with digital brushwork.

This artwork evolves from day into night based on your timezone. Exclusively minted on its own site: 
https://stacks.transientlabs.xyz/natural-forms

This piece is a compilation of my fascination with ancient Egypt, alchemy & symbolism, from the hieratic posing, to the outline of the figures in stone, triangles, elements of fire, water, the mind & the golden ratio.

By day, the artwork embodies simplicity, serving as my meditative anchor with waves flowing through the symbol. Yet, it hints at the depths of the subconscious that will be explored as night arrives.

Night falls, fire illuminates  the underlying bones & architecture of the piece, adding a deeper inquiry both psychological & physical. What lies below the surface? Why is it that at night we are compelled to confront our subconscious, fears, desires, & emotions more deeply?

Within the concept of this piece, I delve into the meanings of the inverted triangle. In Alchemy, it stands for water, yet it also signifies the divine feminine. This duality finds depth in my work & is further explored in this short story. https://www.aylaelmoussa.com/the-tale-of-a-symbol

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