Connected Consciousness

in between characters

through the distorted mirror of reality

embraced by your energy

The Eternal Pump by Dmitri Cherniak

Don"t fight it. Just respect it. Made by Dmitri Cherniak with Javascript and GLSL.

The Eternal Pump #9

Cargo by Kim Asendorf

**Cargo** is a series of abstract paintings created with animated pixels that are constantly moving without ever repeating. It is painting new patterns on the fly in between macro and micro compositions with a duality of different rhythms and continuous synchronicity. The focus is alternately drawn to detail, then distracted by movement elsewhere and caught up in the overall picture. This rhythm turns the visual complexity into an active experience.

ASDF: My work should offer individual ways of interpretation, or even allow one to find some self in it. It wants to inspire some thoughts about dynamics and systemics and also just mesmerize the audience, capture them in a little fantasy, or just for a brief moment in a state of satisfaction.

Cargo is the latest work in Kim Asendorfs ongoing work series of pixel pattern animations. Starting with [monogrid](https://monogrid.xyz) in 2021, and [Sabotage](https://sabotage.kim) in 2022, both highly conceptual series, therefore visually very raw and unimaginable. Asendorf discovered various interesting details in these works, which eventually became fundamental in his artistic expression.

Cargo is a real time WebGL software written in JavaScript and GLSL. At its core is a flip-flop render buffer, also known as feedback buffer. That means the animation is alternately rendered in two different frame buffers. This technique allows the usage of the previous frame of the animation as an asset in the current rendering, which allows for a series of reactive animation strategies.

An initial image with variable structures and patterns is rendered and subsequently loaded into the frame buffer. A fragment shader is used to apply a set of animation algorithms that make the pixel move and a set of reset algorithms that constantly try to recreate the initial image. The final animation happens in selected containers and is always a combination of two algorithms, one from each set. By regularly animating and partially resetting the pixels, a wide range of movement patterns appear.

Cargo is a responsive and pixel exact artwork and it will fill the screen on any display size, thus changing the total amount of used pixels accordingly. This results in the fact that the detail level in the artwork is changing depending on the dimensions. The overall structure is consistently stretching the x and y axis independently. Single containers scale along the dimensions and offer more pixels to render the patterns at a larger representation compared to a smaller representation. This behavior leads to a brilliance, perfect pixels, a crisp rendering with nothing like compression artifacts.

This software includes the [simplex noise](https://github.com/jwagner/simplex-noise.js) JavaScript implementation by Jonas Wagner and the [cellular noise](https://github.com/stegu/webgl-noise) GLSL code by Stefan Gustavson.

Cargo #127

Cargo #15

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Chromie Squiggle by Snowfro

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. Public minting of the Chromie Squiggle is permanently paused. They are now reserved for manual distribution to collectors and community members over a longer period of time. Please visit OpenSea to explore Squiggles available on the secondary market. 

Chromie Squiggle #9732

Blooms by Cory Haber

What are the things that surround us, but mementos of life? Materials to sustain our lives, reminders of what we want or have had, and even life itself. The types of life we observe changes our perspective  for instance, looking upon each other draws comparison and instigates narrative. When we take in nature, everything is alive and as it should be: the slow growing rocks, quietly drifting clouds, the fauna and the flora. From these observations, we get an intuitive sense that each tree, plant, and flower is a peaceful analog to our own spirit. 


Each flower reminds us of the infinite beauty of our existence  its simultaneous perfection and imperfection, and the teaching that those two attributes are the same. The opening of a flower is an uplifting process that prepares for its long moment in the sun and whatever may come. Each drifting wind shows off the dimension of a blossom, each ray of light and drop of water bends its petals to receive sustenance. Through flowers, we see the cycles of life: a peek expression of the plant"s potential in its bloom, simultaneously aware that it was recently but a seed, and will soon now be dead.


The flower is a prompt to stop and enjoy the vibrancy of life  it shouts at us with color and stretches out its sumptuous cup in which to hold our attention. This awareness we place upon the flower reveals the shared energy of our lives, all lives, and charges our connection to it. The lasting power in both their physical appreciation and artistic representation is no coincidence or trite superficiality: it"s born from our deepest intuitions.


*Blooms* continues Haber"s pursuit of expressing the essence of life and energy using flowers as subjects. Through unexpected colors and combinations, an abstracted feel of paint-brushed flora, and a myriad of wild floral arrangements, the generative processes of this series create a new, widely varied visual language that represents the beautiful, organic diversity of life.




*Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless.*


Eckhart Tolle




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Blooms #150

Blooms #166

Memories of Qilin by Emily Xie

Memories of Qilin is inspired by traditional East Asian art. It channels the sense of movement and fluidity found in classical Chinese brushwork, while drawing from the colors, patterns, and forms of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. 

The series explores elements of folklore, evoking the mythological imagery of dragons, phoenixes, flowers, and mountains.  The title references a fabled chimerical beast found throughout East Asian mythology (while the qilin is its Chinese name, it is also known in Korea as the girin and Japan as the kirin) that represents prosperity and luck.

Viewers are invited to interpret elusive forms that verge on representation. As with the stories passed on through generations, each piece is imagined, organic, and ever-in-flux.

Memories of Qilin #126

Memories of Qilin #109

Editions of "Player" with Observations left atop Sam Spratt's The Monument Game.

Sam Spratt - LUCI: Chapter 5 - The Monument Game

An Observation made within Sam Spratt"s "IX. The Monument Game" - User Manual: Rap verse out loud. FEEL IT. 

Empire we gon let this shit rock //

I been climbin this mountain all my life / Pushing past the feelings the strife / Got my money my apes and my Instagram wife / Sometimes you gotta twist that ol knife //

Get to the top and what do I see /
A roiling muck of fakery /Something is missing, what could it be /
Oh fuck. Whats missing is me //

Now we gotta begin again / Gather round my orphaned frens / The Second Mountain waits on high / Wake up Luci and rectify

Player #74/256

An Observation made within Sam Spratt's "IX. The Monument Game" - Those who find their way to the Temple of Luci are being welcomed with yellow fabric scraps in the air. Yellow in this context symbolizes positivity, enlightenment, intellect, and a new beginning. It takes a toll on yourself to persevere in the quest of life. But where is risk there is also reward. Love yourself and those around you, believe in your goals, be persistent. Who knows, you may also end up at your own Temple of Luci.

Player #53/256

Art Blocks x Pace

Loie Hollowells first-ever NFT project, titled Contractions, comprises 280 unique, generative works that center on the artists embodied experiences with childbirth. Based on Hollowells Split Orb sculptural paintings, which she began creating following the birth of her second child, the Contractions NFTs feature two bifurcated orbs situated one on top of the other, with the top orb representing the artists brain and the lower orb signifying her pregnant belly and cervix. This new series brings Hollowells explorations of bodily landscapeswith a particular focus on sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhoodto the digital realm. Contractions will be presented on Pace Gallerys booth at West Bund Art & Design in Shanghai from November 10 to 13. As an extension of the project, Hollowell will create several new paintings of Contractions NFTs.

Hollowell, who has developed a distinctive iconography of geometric and organic forms as part of her painting and drawing practices, was the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai in 2021, and her solo show Loie Hollowell: Tick Tock Belly Clock continues through May 8, 2023 at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis. Her work can be found in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the Long Museum, Shanghai; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and other international institutions. 

There will be 11 scenes in the Contractions NFT series: closed orbs signifying the final stage of pregnancy, just before childbirth, and orbs featuring one of ten set degrees of openings at their centers, representing each of the ten centimeters of cervix dilation required to begin the second pushing stage of labor. With variations in their hues, saturations, and textures, the orbs reflect, on a conceptual level, the artists shifting state of mind and body during childbirth, with each of the colors describing her ranging emotional states.

The total NFTs in the Contractions series reflects the average number of days in a full-term pregnancy. The colors of these NFTs are drawn from a wide spectrum, from grayscalewhich Hollowell has never previously incorporated in her workto a vivid neon palette. The expansive possibilities of color in the NFTs situate Hollowells abstractions in a new light, influencing her approach to painting and drawing.

Contractions #112

Red RiseLikePhoenix

Mint Live! [Phoenix NFTs](https://riselikephoenix.fun) To Remind Us Of The Inner Fire That Make Us Rise Up Again.