
The Metaverse is a popular destination, but Monky does not forget his home planet and his problems. Could this journey help him to live better on earth? 


MONKY versus Metaversus

“We have a jar we keep of all the remains of the art materials we have used to create Hackatao's pieces. Pencil nubs, graphite, all are saved in a big jar. To us, this is our Gold Dust, the remnants and physical manifestation of the intangible experience of creation”.

Before being guided by the hand of the artist and being shaped by the thought process, before being imprisoned in the wood of the pencil, graphite exists in its nebulous dimension. In this work, graphite doesn’t follow the lines, it escapes the artistic gesture and it’s floating free through rebellious tectonic movements.

PRIMORDIAL

The artwork expresses a duality between denotative and connotative messages to create a sense of tension.

Transformation at the Gates of Eternity

(Anatomy of a Gold Dust)

Genesis Artwork for Mint Gold Dust x Lapin Mignon

Anatomie d'Une Poussière d'Or is my very own interpretation of Gold Dust. It shines, it explodes with dreams and hopes, it sparkles with joy, while being delicate and ethereal.

Medium: WaterColour, Golden Ink, Ink and Some Digital Wonders

Anatomie d'Une Poussière d'Or

In a moment of growth, I watched you sit and birth the most beautiful of spirits, It was you and your hope.

In a moment of hurt, you were so still and alone, I watched your spirit try, again and again, your hurt was stretching glass, these beings were you, they were tears and they were your fear, they comforted you then quickly flee, their time seemed short and would illuminate around you, I think I was in awe.

But your spirit is a loop, It reaches out from a garden into the wood where it burns out into ash and wind. At the center of this herd is you, so full of love and care, so much more distant than I remember.

This loop is a cocoon that I look out at you from. the center of this garden wakes me before anything emerges again.

Metamorphosis 

Venturing into nature, I find my own nature. In the stillness of these sculptural portraits, there exists a part of me and a part of the forests, inextricably intertwined as Observer and Observed. 

The act of image-making is a personal, performative act: a ritual giving and taking of light. In this negotiation, I dance round a shrouded sun, evading the LIDAR’s sweeping gaze. How does it see the world? And where’s my place within it? 

From the Catskills to the Blue Ridge, I engage in a conversation with this piece of technology, out of the context in which we normally belong. We are Outsiders, imperfect seers, seeking refuge in softly textured dens under the canopy, blanketed in gems of lights, home in the solitude.

Ritual Nature (Mount Mitchell)

Artist: Lily Honglei
Medium: Oil paintings on paper, digital animation, soundtrack
Duration: 3’29”

Uniquely composed with a series of original oil paintings, “The Butterfly Lovers” is an iconic artwork created by Lily Honglei, an award-winning Asian American artist collaborative based in Flushing Chinatown, New York. 

Reinterpreting a popular East Asian folktale, the animated short film depicts dreamlike dislocation, profound loneliness and isolation but also dignity and cultural identity of Asian American immigrants. As part of this marginal group, we have witnessed many tragic life and death stories of our friends who pursue American dreams. They have been struggling to be accepted and adapt to the new society tainted with prejudices against immigrants and minorities. The Butterfly Lovers symbolically reflects these spiritual struggles, cultural identity dilemmas, and resiliency in the Asian American community. 


The Butterfly Lovers

Moment of connection where intricacies ignite a gravitational pull towards center.
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Space in Touch

Memories call out from the grave of history
Thousands of coins now worthless
Memories of secrets and allies now gone
Grind them down, Melt them
Take their memories and retrain them
With love
Find their worth and mint them again
The dust of memory past is made into new mystery

Bård Ionson has trained thousands of hand selected challenge coins to train a StyleGAN model into a latent space video and molded a new reality.

Mysterious Value

Floating Wall Wildstyle Graffiti Piece-A Simple Formula Utilized to Reflect Chaos

Chaos Curve

This is a 4k 360 Video VR ready video loop with an original score. The concept of the piece is: all the little bits of data from people across the world flow through the wires, and re-combine into one big alternate reality. Where a wide open frontier with new rules are forged. Welcome to the metaverse.

"I Data Stream"

Recursive Tapestry mines the collective history of southern textiles as well as the experiences of my parents and grandparents who worked at the Chatham textile mill in western North Carolina.  In constant motion, the viewer is presented with a hypnotic meditation of materiality, fusing the then and now, queering the past and present.

Recursive Tapestry No. 1

Part of the Four Seasons Series.
This artwork was inspired by the vibes and feelings of the summer season. The final image is realised using my hand drawings together with a GAN algorithm resulting in a collaboration between a human and artificial intelligence. 

Summer Vibes

Mademoiselle Variation is an abstract portrait of a young woman. She is represented through geometric forms and vibrant colours. Can you find her? Her strong and positive energies flow through the canvas just as life flows through the universe. This work has two souls, digital and physical (oil on canvas). This the pure digital version created in 2019 with Procreate. 

Mademoiselle Variation

Pleasure analyzes the urbanization process as a global cultural phenomenon and the individual within society through the inclusion in a metropolis of a giant statue surmounted by buildings. The statue precisely symbolizes the discomfort of the individual devoured by the uncertainties produced by the urban environment and by the homologation of the single symptom of today's capitalism.

Pleasure

This NFT embodies Mint Gold Dust’s commitment to the spirit of human creativity. This is for the creators, the people who make imagination a reality. The few who are embodied with the gift of creation. We dedicate ourselves to you and a free, open, and tolerant space for creators everywhere. (Created by Seth Scher) 

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