InFlux
The InFlux is an epic story told through 333 unique artworks & divided into three chapters: The Origins, The Ordeal, and The Oversoul. Each piece carries its own lore, yet they all fit into a larger narrative we call "The Vertical War" — a conflict between light and dark forces playing out in human evolution and our current age.
The InFlux launched with The Origins in September 2023, featuring 30 1/1s and 3 editions. Physical paintings provide the “raw input” for these animated pixel perfect loops (GIFs). There’s nothing quite like them in our scene.
To see The Origins and read the lore, click here.
While we were developing the technique, tools and code base we needed to complete the work, we also worked on bringing our characters to life and weaving their stories together into a coherent whole. We found, in fact, that in order to finish each piece, we had to explore who each of the characters were and create compelling backstories for each one.
Over the years, we ended up with an interconnected fully-fledged narrative, the first chapter of which became a screenplay for a short film called ON THE RUN. You can read the screenplay here.
Chapter Two, The Ordeal, 133 1/1s, was released in October 2024. An ordeal was built into the minting mechanism: you could mint the piece instantly to your wallet for the lower price, but someone else could come along and buy it out from under you at the higher price — and get it animated. Purchase entailed a risk, and some missed out.
The InFlux culminateS with Chapter Three, The Oversoul, along with many secrets and surprises. The Oversoul is currently launched and can be viewed here.
As you can see, InFlux is far more than a "collection of artworks." Its individual pieces exhibit interconnectedness that will gradually reveal itself over time. The audience is invited to perceive the world from a fresh perspective, offering an alternative lens on life. In this regard, InFlux shares similarities with iconic narratives like The Matrix, aiming to lead its audience on a transformative journey.
CHAPTER 3: THE OVERSOUL
CHAPTER 2: THE ORDEAL
Released October 2024
Each Ordeal embodies a character or archetype in the human experience, mirroring the unseen battle happening in our minds and souls today. We've chosen this focus because these invisible forces are profoundly influential — after all, society itself is an expression of thought, which belongs to this unseen realm.
The Ordeals are us; the spectrum from good to evil, from the depths to the heights, is us — it is our inwardness made visible. Their chaos, madness, indecision, fears, humor, grotesqueness, beauty, strangeness — these are, from my point of view, pictures of the endless soul states that live in every human being.
By creating a spectrum of beings to represent our varied experiences, we're transforming the “spiritual” into a rich narrative landscape for practical consideration.
When we can see these archetypes, give them names, and write their stories, we gain agency in an otherwise immaterial realm. We want to explore not only ourselves, but also the hidden currents shaping our world today. The Ordeal is an invitation to see the unseen, to engage with the intangible, and to become part of a larger conversation about what it means to be human in these complex times.
CHAPTER 1: THE ORIGINS (opens in new tab)
Released September 2023
Chapter one of The Influx begins with The Origins — 30 1/1s, animated paint. With this chapter comes also the screenplay, ON THE RUN, beginning the narratives that weave, with increasing complexity, throughout the three chapters. While the screenplay is a story in itself, the stories of the individuals represented in The Origins, The Ordeal, and The Oversoul are also our stories, of the ways we interact with the forces of good and evil that push and pull us in this life and lives past and future.
The Influx begins with the Origins, and ends with the Oversoul telling the grand story of what makes us truly human, and the choices we make along the way.
