Golden Boy - Glitch - on OpenSea

Tango in the Big Mango–a Baudelaire-like photo imagination about Bangkok, working at a ground zero of now-ness–published by Hatje Cantz, features the "Golden Boy“ cover photograph. The "Golden Boy“ glitch NFT edition is being released to commemorate the transition from the analogue printed book to a digital smart contract.

The "Golden Boy" draped in his gilded, "golden life" foil is making his usual way through the city. He is a fleeting signifier for the world’s need to arrive at a new philosophy of cultural “progress,” one that might depart decisively from destructive “get-rich-quick” schemes and unchecked economic expansion. Nobody knows where yesterday’s "Golden Boy" may be headed now, and even he is increasingly confused by the golden assumptions he still carries everywhere in his shimmering vestments.

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is a generative landscape art project responding to the conditions of the Anthropocene, where the lines between what is possible and what is only imagined are constantly shifting. Simplified circles give way to hyperreal spaces. It is unclear if at any point they resemble a landscape that one could actually inhabit.

At what point do abstract shapes start to resemble believable environments? Each viewer may experience this work differently, depending on where they draw the line between realism and abstraction, natural form, reality and fantasy.

While landscape art is traditionally understood to represent natural forms, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between the natural and manufactured. When the code runs its course and a static picture emerges, a thin barrier seems to be crossed.

The work tests out the limits between reality and hyperrealism, between abstraction and surrealism, blurring distinctions between them.