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SIGHTSEERS - PERIMETER TOWN - 250 (1/1) Paintings; Norman Harman has embarked on an artistic odyssey, veering from the familiar motel to mine the morphic, glitch-ridden outskirts of SIGHTSEERS. The exclusive Perimeter Town set is his gift to collectors, born from these uncharted territories. SIGHTSEERS, Harman's pioneering collection, crafts a narrative that intertwines humanity's present predicaments with the nascent stages of the cryptoart revolution. His tableau, echoing the oblivious onlookers of the 1950s nuclear bomb tests, houses figures suspended in blithe oblivion. Against this stark canvas, Harman paints a foreboding picture of the potential for catastrophe in AI's unchartered frontier. A luminary in the cryptoart realm, Harman breathes new depth into AI art. He masterfully blends traditional painting and digital disruptions, crafting an unflinching critique of societal decadence, distraction, and conformity through his art.
"Big Pig Hunter" 🏹🐖 ***Ground Zero Set***; SIGHTSEERS - PERIMETER TOWN - One of 25 artist chosen distinct pieces. Super rare Diner Sign.
“Alien Frog Diner” 👽🐸🛎️; I’m sure the cuisses de grenouille (frog legs) at this establishment are other-worldly delicious. Aliens all dressed up for a late night rendezvous. The only 🐸 in #PerimeterTown. One of only 6 paintings, with the super rare Sign - Diner Trait. And the only Frog depicted in the epic collection. Only 12 paintings with the Alien - Peripheral Existential Phenomena Trait.
Renegade Replicants (Synthetic Residents) of “Mannequin Store J” - ✨t8chy0n✨; one of only 4 paintings, with the super rare Sign - Shop trait
"Swiss Family" 🎵It’s getting Hot in Herre🎶 (🎤Nelly);
Communicators;
"Space Cadets"; Elon Musk now knows where to get his inspiration for the latest SpaceX suits 🚀👨🚀👨🚀🎩. One of only 6 paintings, with the super rare Sign - Diner Trait.
Franky and Toto;
In SIGHTSEERS and SIGHTSEERS: Perimeter Town, Norman Harman identifies a cross-disciplinary set of reference points spanning postwar spectatorship, figurative painting, and cinematic atmosphere. He cites Duane Hanson’s hyperreal sculptural tableau Tourists as a direct visual touchstone for the “onlooker” presence that animates the series, alongside Ed Ruscha’s modern, geometric pop vocabulary—valued for its capacity to hold the vividly surreal—and Francis Bacon’s existentially charged, unsettling figuration as an influence on his treatment of the human condition. Harman also situates the project within a filmic lineage that informs mood, framing, and cultural cues, referencing Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes for its depiction of American subculture in a post-nuclear landscape, Stanley Kubrick for compositional rigor, Andrei Tarkovsky for philosophical narrative density, Grease for its stylized 1950s palette and iconography, and John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 for suspense, moody lighting, and the texture of urban decay. These aesthetic sources intersect with historical material—particularly mid-20th-century Nevada nuclear testing and the associated culture of “motel party” spectatorship—through which Harman frames the mushroom cloud as a persistent emblem of human folly and self-destruction, shaped in part by a Cold War childhood marked by ambient fear and simultaneous fascination with technological progress. Finally, he emphasizes that the series’ “glitch” is grounded in method: an analogue oil practice characterized by scraping, blurring, and paint-handling without brushes, translated into digital and AI workflows so that distortion and interference function not as ornament but as a communicative strategy—introducing uncertainty, disrupting perception, and extending the work’s critique of distraction and conformity into the image itself.
SIGHTSEERS 496 - Something Wicked This Way Comes…🐐👽✨ (Pylon Trait, 1 of 5 in the collection) --- SIGHTSEERS - 500 (1/1) Paintings; A circle of protagonists and bad actors defy the motel perimeter to venture into the land beyond; one where strange clouds and chemical-beaten signs appear on the horizon line. As night falls, the morphing process begins as the SIGHTSEERS start to glitch, faces become increasingly morphic as the wild winds blow and the radio interference increases. The SIGHTSEERS can’t resist the ultimate photo opportunity...
SIGHTSEERS 3 & 409 - CINEMA 🎥 (only 5 in the collection) - What can I say, I love movies!
SIGHTSEERS 172 - UFO SPEX 🛸 🕶️ - the ONLY one in the entire collection
SIGHTSEERS 495 - Two gents discussing Bitcoin on a sunny afternoon ☀️ - Bitcoin Signs (one of only 4 in the collection)
SIGHTSEERS 219 & 128 - ROLLER COASTERS 🎢 - Only 3 🎢's in the entire collection
SIGHTSEERS 322 - An entangled Roller Coaster enmeshed between the glitching phenomena linking alternate dimensions (Invisible Roller Coaster trait) 🎢 ✨(Tilts hat to Norrie👌 👌)
SIGHTSEERS 444 & 408 - Alien Arcade Machine (only 6 in the entire collection) 👽🎰☁️👯♀️🐰
SIGHTSEERS 3-2-8 & SIGHTSEERS 2-8-3 - Do you see what they see? 👀✨📷
SIGHTSEERS 445 - Hidden Drone Trait
SIGHTSEERS 167 - Brothers wearing hats 🎩 at night ✨
SIGHTSEERS 266 & 390 📸 SAY CHEESE!
SIGHTSEERS 46 ("Michael Douglas" Look-Alike)
SIGHTSEERS 332 💰 & 454 💰
