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On the Shoulders Of

Hero - AI Horticulture Vignettes from the Greenhouse of the Future

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Eat The Scroll

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In My Head

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How to Start a War

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Gone are their worlds. Actions taken that silenced these places for a thousand years. The echo of distant cannons forgotten, the souls of their victims evaporated, claimed by the void. A new epoch now, a different era. 

Long after the cold and the dark came to claim everything, smoldering under the ashes of memory, we find the veins and arteries of their civilization. Clusters of roots, cavernous extensions of what they lost, that drive themselves deep into the earth. Potent icons of existential dread, of what is gone. Their meaning is unknown, but not unknowable. 

These RELICS will bring to light what we have forgotten, ancient memories of their catastrophe, so we can learn how not to replicate it.

RELICS

Unlike Xie's typical code-based work, "Away from Keyboard" is a physical piece: a hand-cut and pasted collage inspired by her own algorithms. Each piece of paper used is printed with one of her generative patterns. Through this manual creation process, Xie gets to explore and understand her generative systems in a different light.

A Moonbird explores its world in “The Journey”—a short animated video and collection of unique frames created by Camila Nogueira for holders of Moonbirds NFTs with Flower headwear traits.

“The Journey” by Camila Nogueira | PROOF

20 artists. 20 pieces of art. Grails offers Mint Pass holders a choice to mint a piece of artwork from 20 artists, but their identities are only revealed until after everyone mints. Choose wisely.

Season I of Grails | PROOF

This portrait is a celebration of individuality, capturing the quiet strength and radiance of an extraordinary woman in the first light of an African sunrise.

The balance between anonymity and what we choose to share with the world. Individuality, identity & anonymity all at once. 

How even behind a curtain, a veil, a mask – essence can still shine through. 

Ethereal Dawn

This mystical Moonbirds world is brought to you by Portuguese artist Camila Nogueira. It shows the journey of a Flower bird as it explores its surrounds—meeting friends from the Ladybirds, Dead Birds Society, Hot Wings, Owlchemy, Space Birds and many other subparliaments along the way.

The Journey

Ephemeral Tides is an exploration of the mesmerizing dance between chaos and control where unpredictability meets order. Each iteration of Ephemeral Tides brings forth a unique and fleeting moment, inviting viewers to embrace the beauty of impermanence and the subtle harmony that arises from the convergence of seemingly opposing forces. Experience the ebb and flow of Ephemeral Tides.

Ephemeral Tides

Systems is an 8 piece series of modern megacity skyscrapers cast in colour tones that contrast with the textures of the manufactured landscape.

Systems

Solitude embraced him, as he walked through the wintry streets of Chinatown. Snow falling gently upon his shoulders, leading him towards the warm embrace of the lantern-lit path ahead.

A Wintry Night in Chinatown

Expired Polaroid Time Zero photograph of my guide standing on the frozen ice of Tempelfjorden, Svalbard Archipelago, 2011.

Part of my first photo series of Svalbard, a trip that motivated me to dedicate my artistic practice to photography, as my time as a full-time musician drew to a close.

My cat is the only living being that understands me.

A Perfect Friday Night

Season III of Grails | PROOF

A digital artwork by Mr Doodle as part of a continuation of his Abstract Doodlism series. Which features layers of loose doodles on top of one and other in a way that creates a feeling of colourful graffiti like lines building raw, vibrant images.

Kid Heart is an experimental character of pure heart and mind, ready-made to explore the world.

A map, but of what?  A landscape, but where?  

Don't worry too much about it.  Listen to the colors talk.  When you need it, they will tell you where you are and where to go. 

Open Console

__This collection consists of 2 artworks, with a supply of 50 editions each. Currently pictured above is "Lucidity."__

*Remnants of a Distant Dream* is a diptych consisting of two artworks titled "Lucidity" and "Transcendence." Together, they explore the ephemeral nature of human aspirations and the passage of time. They serve as an ode to the transient and fragile nature of our collective memory, emphasizing the importance of embracing change and remaining curious.

The works were created using a mixed-media process that seamlessly blends generative code, hand-drawn elements and digital collage. Combined with the introduction of new tools and techniques to the artist’s process, this approach reflects the constant interplay between past, present, and future, further underscoring the need to adapt and remain open to new possibilities in the ever-evolving human experience.

Remnants of a Distant Dream

PROOF is delighted to present the Diamond Exhibition, our first curated show for the Moonbirds community.

Moonbirds Diamond Exhibition | PROOF

The "Duressa" dance from the Dorze community of Southern Ethiopia. It represents power and courage, and is usually performed at funerals to honor a hero. The women sing "Come my Lion, come my Hero." Traditional dances are kept alive in the Dorze community by allowing kids to dance from an early age in weddings and other important ceremonies marking rights of passage.

The exploitation of natural resources presents an inherent imbalance. While profits stack up, the true costs distribute.

StackSlash utilizes a 2D rigid-body physics engine for composition. Rectangular bodies are placed within a scene and the forces of gravity and collision guide them into a stable resting state. The rendering of the system occurs in two parts: While interacting, the bodies are rendered in a 2D canvas to allow fluid manipulation. Once the system arrives in a stable configuration, a heavier WebGL rendering step creates and applies surface textures to the bodies. The system is fully responsive and can extend to any viewport size upon interaction. The composition is initially presented in its default 3:4 deterministic state.

StackSlash

This titan is keeping the Vault safe. What's behind though… ?

The Guardian

"Goodbye Horses" is a meditation on the challenges that AI art potentially imposes on the role of the artist in society. If machines do a better job at painting than a human artist, does it make the act of painting obsolete? I perceive creating art (and painting in particular) to be more than a mere profession; it’s a form of deeply human expression that taps into the spiritual part of our very being and I would argue there will always be a place and need for it. 

In the 1988 song “Goodbye Horses" by Q Lazzarus, we hear what appears to be a vague account of an argument with a disillusioned man who seems to think of life as being meaningless and futile ("All things pass into the night"). The song concludes with a reply from the narrator: "Goodbye horses, I'm flying over you." The horses are a nod to Hindu philosophy and represent the five senses with which we experience the materialistic qualities of the world, and flying over them is akin to aspiring to a more spiritual state of mind that goes beyond a purely rationalistic and finite world view. 

In a similar way it could be argued that the act of creating art is an aspiration towards something that is of more than just practical and monetary value and the "sum of its parts", but that it taps into the spiritual part of the human experience. In the various depictions of the late medieval allegorical "Danse Macabre" theme, various personifications of death are depicted in attire representative of their status and profession, a nod to the universality of death. 

In similar fashion, the jumping skeleton in "Goodbye Horses," which is carrying various artistic tools, is a representative of all artists. And, despite the gloomy outlook of his future, with his profession heavily challenged by rapid advancements of AI image creation, he doesn’t succumb to a purely rationalistic world view, where painting in light of AI advancements seems increasingly futile. Instead, he is facing the situation with optimism, by "flying over the horses."

Goodbye Horses

__This collection consists of 2 artworks, with a supply of 50 editions each.__

BEHEADED explores the lore of the Tigerbob and Gossamer Rozen universe in two forms. The beheaded tiger debuted on the cover of Gossamer’s self-published zine, Grimoire (2019).

BEHEADED (SELF-PORTRAIT) is an expression of the artist’s reflection on the 14-month period starting the Tigerbob brand and beyond. The mystical female character is one of many who appear adjacent with Tigerbob in the Tigerbob Bestiary collection. Colored pencil and ink are Gossamer’s primary traditional illustrative medium.

BEHEADED (ITERATION 2) begins to address the mysterious and explicit central narrative about Tigerbob’s separated head and body. Part of the "Iteration" series, this piece was made in Google Sheets and uses conditional formatting across multiple animated panels. Colors were sampled from BEHEADED (SELF PORTRAIT).

Both pieces are inspired by arcane topics including grimoires (books of magic), tarot cards, sigils, automatic writing, and bestiaries (collections of beasts and the natural world) that exist in current and prior work. For Gossamer, art is a type of healing magic that comes directly from the mind and manifests into the world, taking many forms.

The narrative of Tigerbob exists in the Tigerbob Genesis collection, the Tigerbob Concepts & Myths collection, and the Tigerbob Bestiary collection of NFTs. Further explorations occur in physical works such as tapestries, tattoos, sculpture, wearable art and more.

Digital, collage cut-out animation. (2022)
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The entrance to the basement shop from where all good things are birthed. The lord chisels still, so don't leave your bench for long.

Upon encountering Matisse's "Blue Nudes" series, I found myself intrigued by the photograph of a room adorned with these simple yet evocative depictions of the human form. At first glance the figures appeared as harmonious abstractions, each embodying a shared pose while subtly diverging in unique ways upon closer inspection. This experience ignited my fascination with the artistic endeavor to recreate the same essence through multiple iterations, prompting a contemplation on the role of variations in a generative art series in an era often fixated on extravagant algorithmic diversity.

Here we aim to celebrate subtlety. This project employs not only the randomness inherent to algorithms but also the serendipity of human intervention. Anchored in my own hand-drawn inputs, the process intertwines organic paths with algorithmic automation, generating polygons that exude the beauty of nuanced distinctions.

Beyond technique, this endeavor mirrors an autobiographical passage — a celebration of my evolution from functional coder to constructor of pure form. Matisse's iconic method of composing with cut paper — initially a preparatory ritual — mirrors my own journey. What once served utilitarian software now finds purpose in artistry, code morphing into my chosen medium of artistic expression. This metamorphosis, a kinship to Matisse's transformation, is my homage to the creative odyssey that beckons when code transcends its pragmatic origins.


Drawing with Code

Ink sketch, digitally manipulated.\nUnyielding. Achromic. Looking right at you.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, I am dying to know what you see in this piece that I worked so hard on.

What do you “B”

This feels familiar 
But I can't figure out why 
Have I been here before 
Or was it a dream 
I remember this feeling 
I have felt this before 
Have I stepped in a time machine 
Gone warp speed back to....... when 
And just like that, the feeling is gone 
The memory was sweet, I want it back 
But I never did figure out what it was. 

(This is a generative algorithm written completely with code in Javascript and GLSL.)

Substance is a generative study of color, matter, body and mass. PNG, 5000x7000px. 2022.

A solitaire is a precious stone set by itself in jewelry. Solitaire features Damon Deville alone next to a timeless car. This piece is meant to exude retro West Coast elegance.

Dreaming my queen through the machine in my Hollywood studio.\n\nOriginal VideoDream by Sarah Zucker / @thesarahshow. Created in studio in 2021 by feeding an original digital photo collage through VQGAN + Clip using the phrase “Siamese Cat on top of the Capitol Records building with sunset | iridescence | unreal engine”\n\nOpen Edition released as part of Grails for Proof Collective.

Dream Loaf

“Wall” is an algorithmic appreciation of a brick wall - everything that it is made of, everything that has been added to it or removed from it, and everything that it interacts with.

Second Moon is an animation created in 2022 using a digital moiré patterning technique, consisting in the overlap of two images to generate the illusion of a third image. In my practice, this process is often used to created abstract textural works inspired by atmospheric and natural forces. In Second Moon, the animation oscillates between abstraction and figuration: it can be read as an abstract composition or as a figurative landscape representing the reflection of a celestial object over a liquid surface. At large, Second Moon relates to many histories of abstraction and figuration in painting, optical art, moving image, computer graphics and screen savers. The notion of surface is important in this work, as it constantly plays with the perception of depth and flatness within the space of the screen.

Second Moon

Crayon and code are united after four decades in a collaboration with the self. Artist Matt Kane has become well known for using time and change as artistic mediums. Additionally, Kane has referenced space and the cosmos in several series including his 2021 magnum opus, Gazers, a generative lunar phase calendar released on Art Blocks in 2021. In fact, Kane's very first NFTs in 2019 were depictions of the M87 Black Hole. The subject of 'Proof of Origin' is a red crayon drawing that the artist made when he was just 4 years old, which he titled at the time 'Picture of the Planets.' 38 years later, as a cryptoartist, Kane reminds us ""don't trust, verify. I've explained how my interest in the cosmos extends back as long as I can remember. This drawing is proof of my early passion and to my estimate, my very first visual expression of outer space. My father remembers the drawing hanging on our refrigerator for a very long time. That's probably where the stains came from. He and my mother were both very happy to see it again.

Each NFT has a unique set of stars which are deterministically generated according to an NFT's minting transaction hash. The sky is made up of one star for every month that has passed since the original drawing was made on March 1st, 1985. The work begins with 454 stars. A new star is added to shine brightly at the top of each new month.

In addition to archiving and responsively presenting the original crayon drawing, the work also serves as a 24 hour clock. Each hour is represented by a different color from the 24 pack of crayons Kane would have drawn from in 1985. "I've traded black and gray for 'Cornflower Blue' and 'Sea Green' - my favorite colors from the larger packs of crayons. I remember trading these with my kindergarten class's box of 64. I'm pretty sure I got in trouble for that." The sky fades according to the minutes that have passed, appearing darkest at the top of each hour.

Clicking on the left and right edge of the screen or pressing the spacebar changes the viewing mode of the artwork. Viewers are encouraged to reflect on their own memories of interacting with the night sky, especially at an early age.

Proof of Origin - Picture of the Planets

Oscillating between extremes.
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Ambivalence

Doomscrolling is a five second, 60fps looping animation modeled after the physical feeling of scrolling through a social media feed on a cell phone. 

A digital version of the animation was created using Ben’s unique generative art framework written in Haskell. Each of the 300 resulting frames were meticulously copied in charcoal to paper, then photographed and sequenced to create a seamless looping, hand-drawn animation.


Doomscrolling

Growth is often found at the furthest ends of the emotional scale. Here, with 75 curated outputs, the Computer attempts to translate an array of emotional states using a flow of colour.

These slices of emotion play out on the canvas like musical notes. Sometimes they appear free flowing and long lasting, while at other times fractured and interrupted. Viewers are invited to relate these scales of colour with moments from their own experiences.

This system pays homage to the Atmospheric Effects series by Alma Thomas.

__This collection is pre-curated by the artist.__

Colour Computer

The advancement of my art involved sequential, gradual, and consistent experimentation. It was never a binary of a certain style “working” and another “failing.” The changes over time flowed, one after another, and came to me naturally. I went where the art took me. It required hundreds of artworks before my art arrived to where it is today, where it is still evolving, and will evolve perpetually. 

The exhibited piece, “Paying Debts” is from a time where the strictly-collage style was expanding with a layer of illustrations. The main classical art piece that “Paying Debts” is based on is “The Last Statement” by Arthur Kampf. 

During this time, my art was much simpler in its detail. I do not remember exactly, but this piece probably took me a few hours over the course of a few days to create. It shows the combination of collage with immature illustration on top. The faces on the characters foreshadow the creation of my colorful, hooded characters called “fiends.” The clouds in the background were illustrated by me, but are far less detailed than the clouds I draw today. 

This piece is important to me because it shows how far my art has come. My work gained traction in 2021, but not many people have looked back at my older work and how it has consistently evolved into where it is today. It’s important to look back into any artist’s career to see first-hand that it is almost never an overnight “success.”

Paying Debts

Shermie

"Epiphany" 

Echoes of Identity is a digital art project exploring duality, self-discovery, and perception. The journey begins with an unrevealed placeholder; an enigmatic close-up of a woman's face. 

The narrative unfolds into three unique variations, each expressing different aspects of identity. The first variation explores self-duality through a twin presence, the second uncovers hidden selves within a split face, and the final one mirrors our ever-changing perceptions. This project challenges collectors to engage with the artwork on an intimate level, unraveling the complexities of human identity, and fostering a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Echoes of Identity

Echoes

Proceed w/ Caution as you enter the moonlight that shines upon the Monsters, Oddities, and creatures of flight. An epic collaboration between Justin Mezzell, the artist behind Moonbirds, and Des Lucréce, the creator of Monsters and Proceed w/ Caution. What happens when Des’ Monsters collide with the world of Moonbirds? The resulting series introduces 8 species across the iconic spectrum of colors from Proceed w/ Caution.

Lycorises is a series of generative artworks inspired by Ernst Haeckel‘s illuminating illustrations on biological evolutions. Combining the visual language of microscopic organisms and flowers, the Lycorises artworks aim to represent the intricacies of life and how it constantly evolves. Through the use of generative algorithms, the artworks are able to constantly create new, unique floral-like forms. Each different color palette reflects the unique structure of Lycorises specifically evolved in its environments, including the volcano, alien desert, or cyberspace.  

Lycorises

PROOF presents “Defybirds” a collaboration between PROOF Moonbirds and Des Lucréce. Proceed w/ Caution as you enter the moonlight that shines upon the Monsters, Oddities, and creatures of flight.

“Defybirds” by Des Lucréce | PROOF

A year ago I was obsessively crafting algorithms to draw trees with a pen plotter. At the core of them is a piece of code that fast computes line intersections, the black magic behind all of my pen plotter works.
The Fabric of Trees is an output from the same algorithm that later made my genesis ETH piece "The Oak Tree", nothing less, except the magic of deactivating line intersections. "
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When we examine even a tiny drop of water, we uncover thriving communities of life and interconnections. It is easy to see each drop as a self-contained world, bounded by surface tension. However, given the opportunity, even the smallest of these ecosystems will blend with other bodies of liquid, altering the life forms and composition within. 
This series represents a collection of samples taken from the same intertidal area of artificial life, forming a collection of microscopic worlds, all seemingly singular, yet patiently waiting for the chance to blend into something greater.


Intertidal Samples 2.0

The depression sits idle, patiently waiting to find more time to breathe. It eats what I eat and thinks what I think, but better. Forever hoping that it leaves me be but terrified it will. Love, friendship and responsibility exist around me…but IT does not know those things.Either I contain it well, or I've made them all liars. I'm sorry.

Fixer-upper

Madonna

If winds were fibers, what would they weave?

I live on a hillside near the coast. Seasonal winds sculpt the trees into tortured but elegant shapes. Some are stripped bare but still reach for the sky. Others bend their trunks to protect their foliage like a shield.
This project began with an idea to simulate smoke and the winding paths it follows. The smoke coalesced into strands of fiber and colorful yarn. Then it swirled into strange and organic forms.

Some look like those wind-sculpted trees. Others are blankets unraveling, or storybook creatures felted from wool.

If you look close, they are all fuzzy and soft and begging to be touched.
As this project developed I researched fiber arts, an artistic tradition with a rich history. I spoke with artists and friends who knit, weave, felt wool, and raise Alpacas and sheep. Windwoven pieces don't try to simulate actual weaving, but the project is grounded in the fiber arts world. Many palettes are drawn from yarn and wool roving colors, and even from the shades of Alpaca fur. The color blending mimics the dynamic colors that can be achieved when carding dyed wool.

Of course, most of the outputs could only be made with code, pushing fiber-like artwork into new realms.

"It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail… squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, as well as copied and pasted into other channels of distribution.”—Hito SteyerlMade with noise, code, scrap paper, tea, tape, discarded electronics, graphite and light projection. Inspired by artist friends in the highly networked practice of generative art, as well as Hito Steyerl's seminal defense of the poor image, GEIST mixes generative, traditional, digital and material processes.An exploration and reconciliation with the strange power of the static thumbnail in web3.An homage to all the poor images no less haunting for their humble resolution that became formative cultural influences for those of us who grew up on the Internet.
Lastly, a non-literal labyrinth linking past and upcoming long form generative art projects - GEIST gives rise to keys for those willing to explore a non-linear future.

“How to Start a War” is the first published fiction piece by bestselling author Tim Ferriss (The 4-Hour Workweek, Tools of Titans, etc.), available only in NFT form. This short story is about mercenaries, modern life, mental gymnastics, and the games we play. The prose, handwriting, and concept is by Tim Ferriss (tim.blog). The design is by Lisa Quine (lisaquine.com).