The World Today collection

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TWT (DEPRECATED)

Iskra Velitchkova entered 2023 with a clear goalto slow down. After two frenetic years she needed to take a step back and focus on developing her technique and art practice. ESCAPE is the product of this pace change, its icon, and a map guiding us towards this same freedom.

For Velitchkova the relationship between artist and machine is deeply collaborative, nurturing unexpected elements that emerge from the code. This algorithm began in systems that balance order and chaos. First a distinctive style reminiscent of architectural maps emerged. From this grew the brutalism characteristic of former Soviet cityscapes of the artists early childhood in Bulgaria. Ultimately stifled by this rigidity and repetition, Velitchkova pushed the algorithm furtherbreaking it and in the result discovering the form of an opera house, a structure that had become a symbol of freedom to the artist, the promise of losing oneself in art.

The overwhelming superstructure of architectural lines breaks the picture plane and seems to go beyond three dimensionality. By avoiding easy categorization, the viewer spends time considering the forms and making sense of the composition. It becomes possible to escape everyday concerns for a moment longer, lost in the almost mathematical task of viewing these geometries. The opera house icon emerges as an antidote to these illusive structures. This central figure is suddenly recognizable as a flat or three dimensional shape. Whether in dense black or highlighted as a central white figure, it is a condensation point, a place for our mind to rest. The images combine the icons of this escape but also serve as a visual guide to achieving it.

We are reminded of what art can offer usmental freedom. Yet ultimately this is an illusion. Just as the opera is a staged fiction with its own rules and schedule, this composition is not real; it is a staged performance specifically created to evoke this reaction.

ESCAPE BY ISKRA VELITCHKOVA

Escape #250

Sequels

Eastern Europe

A horse-drawn cart going over a highway bridge somewhere in Eastern Europe, probably Bulgaria.

Sequels #100

The Pyrenees mountains, Europe, 1966

The Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain, with snow covered fields.

Sequels #90

1337

For its April/May 2023 issue, Fortune and Panamanian artist Ix Shells created a custom art piece for the cover of Fortune: Crypto Climbs Back From The Worst Year Ever that is now an NFT. Using Touch Designer, Yard coded the pixels in the artwork to expand into intricate geometric shapes that shift up and down.

To learn more about the project: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fortune-teams-up-with-famed-digital-artist-shells-for-nft-drop-of-iconic-magazine-cover-301789794.html


Notable Pepes

Series: 1  
Card: 25  
Artist: Fake Annie

Chairs, who needs them?

Do Me, Come Again

Series: 1  
Card: 20  
Artist: Mr Hansel

It"s Notaball, it"s a Rare Pepea!

RAREPEPEA

COLLECTIVE LANDSCAPE

COLLECTIVE LANDSCAPE #30

COLLECTIVE LANDSCAPE #29

My collection is about celebrating joy, humor, exuberance, fragility, and imperfection. 

The intent was to create artwork at the intersection of prehistoric myths and symbols and the latent space  Im fascinated by the analogy between almost geometric imagery of pre-Columbian patterns and the generative artworks.  

Through a series of AI-generated images, transformed into the surface design for the pottery my ceramic pieces emerge as 'future artifacts'tangible tokens of a present that bows to the past. In this blend of history, myth, comedy and cutting-edge technology one could appreciate the technical prowess but the work is meant to be enjoyed just on its crafty surface level. 

I paired each unique picture with a unique handcrafted ceramic piece   think of the former, of the NFT, as a postcard, capturing the essence and spirit of La Potire Jalouse as inspiration for pottery. 

Physicals can be redeemed starting November 22nd, 2023.

La Potiere Jalouse: Rite of the Handmade by Helena Sarin

In one sentence my collection is about celebrating joy, humor, exuberance, fragility, and imperfection. 

The intent was to create artwork at the intersection of prehistoric myths and symbols and the latent space - I"m fascinated by the analogy between almost geometric imagery of pre-Columbian patterns and the generative artworks.

Through a series of AI-generated images, transformed into the surface design for the pottery my ceramic pieces emerge as "future artifacts"tangible tokens of a present that bows to the past. In this blend of history, myth, comedy and cutting-edge technology one could appreciate the technical prowess but the work is meant to be enjoyed just on its crafty surface level.

I paired each unique picture with a unique handcrafted ceramic piece   think of the former, of the NFT, as a postcard, capturing the essence and spirit of La Potire Jalouse as inspiration for pottery. In fact, I made the pots for the deliberate purpose of painting generative images on them.

And perhaps, as you ease into the night with your favorite drink cradled in one of these pots, you"ll find joy in the simple pleasuresa  sip of tea, a splash of bourbon, or the warmth of a crafted mug and listen to the generative folktale, the bedside story I"m telling through the imagery on that vessel.