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Refik Anadol and the Yawanawá have co-created a first-of-its-kind digital artwork series entitled Winds of Yawanawa. The series comprises a data sculpture and a limited Genesis NFT collection of 1000 unique Data Paintings that harness weather data from the tribe’s village in the Amazon rainforest. Each Data Painting is composed of a unique video with soundtrack, generated from the Winds of Yawanawa artwork video. Central to the creative process of the pieces are the young Yawanawá sisters Nawashahu and Mukashahu, whose artworks form the foundation and visual inspiration of Winds of Yawanawa, combined with traditional Yawanawá chants. The data includes wind speed, gusts, direction and temperature and merges with the paintings, resulting in a mesmerising play of traditional shapes and colours. Real-time weather data from Aldeia Sagrada flows into the central Winds of Yawanawa artwork and dictates its movement, making it a living and dynamically evolving representation of the Yawanawá identity and the community’s connection to their Amazonian territory – a fundamental ecosystem for all of humanity.