I have always been a big fan of cultures, especially Eastern ones. In 2016 I found the combination of pixel art and traditional paintings and elements as a bridge between past and present, ancient and modern life and I started my Persian miniature pixelated journey.

My Creations

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"Self-Portrait in Lunaria" is part of a world I began making in October 2021. I had reached a point of crisis between the narratives of normality and the anarchy of creation. On the full moon of that month, I constructed a ritual of commitment to art, a vow to serve it, protect it, and to be lunatic enough to follow it wherever it lives. This ritual became a music video titled "Lunaria," filmed with the support of my friends in Berlin.

Lunaria is the place that I try to surround with my voice when I sing, to articulate with my hands when I paint, to embody when I present myself in performance. In this Self-Portrait, I use the deep learning model Stable Diffusion to imagine myself into the world of Lunaria.

Starting with photographs of myself from the music video "Lunaria," I used image-to-image translation guided by text prompts to travel into Lunaria. Similar to the way that the Lunaria ritual was a means to resolve my higher self from the noise of expectation, this Self-Portrait resolves the avatar of my evolution from the noise of the diffusion model's latent space.

"Self-Portrait in Lunaria" is both a reaffirmation of my vows and a marker of a new direction where my art is leading me. It presents a vision of what I might be if I were born within the world of Lunaria: how my body might be shaped on the Lunaria planet, and what the fashions might be like in the Lunaria society.

"Simple and easily identifiable, each Squiggle embodies the soul of the Art Blocks platform. Consider each my personal signature as an artist, developer, and tinkerer." -Snowfro

Chromie SquiggleS: An Exploration

A Perfect Spectrum Squiggle - One of just 20 in the collection. Perfect Spectrum Squiggles show each of the 256 colors just once.

At their heart, Chromie Squiggles are variations on two basic traits - type and color. Comprised of 6 types and 256 colors, we find practically infinite variation through different compositions of these traits.

The Hall of Collectoooors

Some of the most well-known collectors in the world of NFTs collect Chromie Squiggles. But why? Uniformly, all of these collectors have great respect and admiration for generative art and understand the history of NFTs. Chromie Squiggles are the embodiment of these things. They are excellent examples of generative art - instantly recognizable, yet featuring strong diversity across the collection. And they are historic - created as a genesis collection on one of the most important generative art platforms by its founder. Chromie Squiggles will be taught in art history classes and the influence of Chromie Squiggles, their creator, and the generative art platform through which they were minted cannot be understated.

A Brief Introduction to Chromie Squiggles

Chromie Squiggles are one of three Art Blocks genesis projects, released for minting on November 27, 2020. They were created by Erik "Snowfro" Calderon, who is also the founder of the Art Blocks generative platform. Of the three genesis projects, Squiggles are the largest project (with total possible mints of 10,000 pieces) and were the least expensive to mint upon release, at just 0.035 ETH.

Public minting of Squiggles was halted before the collection was completed, with Snowfro retaining the last 1,000 Squiggles to distribute at his discretion. Of the 1,000 Squiggles that Snowfro originally retained, 624 have now been minted. You can read more about Snowfrow's decision to pause minting here.

A Note About Viewing Squiggles: Squiggles move and change colors! Click each Squiggle to view up close and then click the Squiggle to activate it's features.

When viewed in live mode, you can change the background color from white, through various shades of grey, to black by pressing space bar. You can also control the speed at which the colors change by pressing up and down.

EIPandas

the first PFP project on PoS Ethereum