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Infinite Garden: 18000 Flowers

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Infinite Garden

Description

Infinite Garden, 2025 Leander Herzog https://www.infinite-garden.xyz/4208 Nguyen Wahed presents Infinite Garden, a solo exhibition by Leander Herzog in New York. For two months, beginning March 17, the standalone installation transforms the concept of digital materiality through an ever-shifting botanical ecosystem on blockchain where no single moment repeats itself. Herzog's new work employs blockchain affordances as a creative medium, building a space where collectors become active participants in the cultivation of living digital flora - works conceived collectively through a smart contract. Each element exists in a state of perpetual evolution, responding to temporal conditions including diurnal cycles and seasonal progressions. Flowers can be minted through Shape. They may be combined, creating personal arrangements in one’s garden that evolve over time. Flowers can be gifted to other collectors and merged to a new garden. OpenSea facilitates the acquisition of flowers on secondary needed to diversify existing gardens. Infinite Garden invites the audience to root for blockchain not merely as a transactional framework but as an expressive medium with distinct properties for generative art. Presented in partnership with Shape, and supported by OpenSea. 50% of the proceeds are donated to Protocol Guild, a collective funding mechanism for Ethereum core protocol maintainers.

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Gardener

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Gardener

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