Project 04 of 11

Bookends (Study)

I paired an unreleased background algorithm from 2018 with photos of little ceramic pinch pots I made by hand.

This one goes from clay to code and then back to physical bowls that holders could claim. It is a small, quiet project, which I think is part of why I like it.

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A Bookends composition joining a generative background with photographed handmade ceramic pinch pots.
Bookends (Study)
Display Date
Aug 17, 2022
Category
study
Edition
Edition of 50

A Few Notes

What I was doing here

The short version

I paired an unreleased background algorithm from 2018 with photos of little ceramic pinch pots I made by hand.

How It Works

I photographed the pinch pots and placed them into compositions made by the older background algorithm. The code and the slightly wonky handmade forms have to share the image.

What’s underneath

I grew up around ceramic tile, so clay was part of my visual life long before code was. Holders could also claim physical bowls, which sent the work back out of the screen again.

Go look around

The PROOF page, gallery record, and OpenSea collection below are the easiest places to see the small edition together.

PROOF Grails II

Easy to miss

The pots are not renders. I made them, photographed them, and then put those photographs into the generative compositions.

Where it led

This is a little bridge between the ceramics I grew up with and the later projects where the code starts making instructions, files, and objects for the real world.

Where to find it

The PROOF release page, NADA / Venus Over Manhattan record, and OpenSea collection are linked below.

Dates

A few dates

  • 2022-08-17PROOF mint datesourced

Provenance

On-chain details

  • Bookends (Study)Ethereum0xd78afb925a21f87fa0e35abae2aead3f70ced96b

In The Bigger Picture

Where this one goes

Surface
Grails study with ceramics
Deeper Layer
An old algorithm sharing space with pinch pots I made and photographed
Builds On
The ceramic tile I grew up around and my early generative experiments
Sets Up
Later projects where code keeps turning into instructions and physical objects

Sources

Where this came from

Official / primary

  • PROOF Grails II page
    official projectprimary source

    The official Bookends (Study) reference for project facts and public links.

  • PROOF Snowfro artist page
    official projectprimary source

    The official Bookends (Study) reference for project facts and public links.

  • PROOF physical pot claim post
    official projectprimary source

    The official Bookends (Study) reference for project facts and public links.

Exhibition / curated

Provenance / market