After returning from South America, I’ve returned to pen plotting with heavier markers and new algorithms. I’m chasing textures that feel like woven threads. This direction shows promise, but more testing of pressure and placement lies ahead.
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New Noctilucent Memento
Introducing Noctilucent Memento Marfa 2025, a new piece marking the second anniversary of the Noctilucent Mementi series. First shown in Marfa, Texas, this edition was gifted to collectors of the series, a gesture of gratitude and continuity. The final layer was completed by the Cloudpainter plotter during our SOVRN.art popup with Pindar Van Arman, adding…
First Cryptocurrency Acquisition
Another piece from my new Plotting Against Centralization (PAC) series is FA8Y, a visualization of first-time cryptocurrency acquisitions as of 2025 by year as a percentage (cloud density per triangle) from 2017 to 2024. This work debuted at the Art Ono fair in Seoul, South Korea. Discover more about the PAC FA8Y Blue Variant and…
VIDEOMaking Of Video PAC AW8Y Grey
Making-of video of the PAC AW8Y Grey Variant, a visualization of active crypto wallets as a percentage of the global population with smartphones (cloud density per rectangle, adjusted) by year from 2019 to 2024. You can watch the video here or on YouTube.
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Asynchronous Airdrops Selected for Paris
I am pleased to share that Asynchronous Airdrops – One has been selected for the exhibition reel of Techspressionism: New Visual Languages at Mémoire de l’Avenir in Paris, France, curated by Colin Goldberg. The international survey of digital motion works brings together 80 artists from 24 countries. It premieres on January 22, 2027, at 6:30 p.m. Paris time (12:30…
Plotting the Next Chapter
Fifty-six days remain in 2026, and in this photo I am doing what much of my work begins with: looking up at the clouds. Lately, I have been looking back as well. I am currently reflecting and working on a new issue of my newsletter, out in mid-December. It gathers the year’s works, studio notes,…
VIDEOCombining Visualization Modes
Since 2020, when I began translating clouds in Python through tile sets of painted marks, stamp marks, and drawn shapes, much of my time has gone into tile-based visualization modes: cents, ASCII characters, halftone dots, dither, hatching, each a different vocabulary for the same sky. Until now, every export used one of them at a…