Open Edition mint - "ETH Up In Flames" still available to mint at Manifold for only 0.003 ETH
Dreams Up In Flames, 2023 (mp4 video w/ audio - see collection)
This is the introduction to a much larger vision of my experimentation with composite photography. I used photos of many elements in the room to give myself the ability to put together many different scenes. I can change the outdoor scene, artwork on the wall, position of the model, etc. But I decided to focus on one scene and animate it.
There were many different photoshoots including an outdoor set for filming flames. Each set of flames was filmed specifically for its location in the scene and merged in editing.
2023 - A Divine Number of Mugs
Below are the images (click to enlarge) and links to their NFT collections. Continue reading below for more information about them.
A Divine Number of Mugs, 2023 Stacked Mug Sequence, 2023 Golden Mug, 2023
This artwork series features photographs of coffee mugs as building blocks recreating examples of the Fibonacci sequence, the golden ratio and a golden spiral as found in nature. The eight different coffee mugs, two styles and four colors, were individually photographed and manually placed in the image.
The Fibonacci sequence is a sequence of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers, starting with 0 and 1. The sequence begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and continues infinitely.
As the sequence grows, the ratio between consecutive numbers approaches the golden ratio, also known as the Divine Number and often represented by the Greek letter Phi. The value is approximately 1.61803.
The Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio are fascinating mathematical concepts that are often found in nature. Sunflower seeds are arranged in spiral rows that curve clockwise and counterclockwise. The number of spiral rows in one direction is often found in the Fibonacci sequence. The number of rows in the other direction will be the number either before or after it in the sequence. This example shows three different sets of spiral rows numbering 21, 34 and 55, all in the Fibonacci sequence. Starting with the green line number 1, if you count each row going clockwise, there will be 34 rows total. I did not highlight all of the rows. This spiral feature is found elsewhere such as pineapple, pine cones and daisies.
Many types of plants have petal counts from the Fibonacci sequence, anywhere from three like a lily to 55 or 89 in michaelmas daisies.
As with some actual trees, the number of branches in successive levels of my tree represent the Fibonacci sequence.
By arranging squares as shown, with side lengths from the Fibonacci sequence, they compose Fibonacci Rectangles whose side lengths are two successive Fibonacci numbers.
By drawing a quarter circle in each square, it forms a type of spiral or a "golden spiral", that is often seen in nature such as spiral aloe or a nautilus shell.
In any sequence of growing or shrinking mugs, the ratio between mug sizes is the Golden Ratio.
In sequences of mugs such as the vine sections, their offshoots or sunflower stalk sections, the number of mugs in each section is from the Fibonacci sequence.
The larger rain coffee mugs are in vertical lines with counts representing the Fibonacci sequence, while the entire set of rain drops conforms to a golden spiral. The total count of mugs in the clouds is 1597, a Fibonacci number.
The total number of mugs in the entire piece is also a Fibonacci number, 6765. Many other aspects of the image comply such as the aspect ratio, pixel height and width. The full resolution of "A Divine Number of Mugs" is 10946 x 17711, created so that it could be used to make a large print. This might only be made available by the artist, possibly only to the owner of the NFT. The images shown are resized. Below is a 100% cropped zoom.
There are some extra unrelated features such as the element growing near the tree. It features a different sequnce of growth that is not the Fibonacci sequence, therefore I call it the 'weed'. But the number of mugs is still determined by a formula!
Both 1/1 artworks include messages, encoded in the rows of coffee mugs. All messages use the same encoding scheme based on the eight different mugs. I have kept the message a secret, perhaps I will hold a contest to decode it.
