We have been using ceramics, glass and natural inspirations for decades. The first image that most of the people have in mind is the Sagrada Familia or Parc Güell, mosaics, organic forms, colorful compositions and innovative ways of creation.
In this project I wanted to explore something that is present in Barcelona but also in all Catalonia: stained glass installations from the modernist epoque. Barcelona is a modernist city, and stained glass windows, decorations and balconies are all over the place.
We call them «vitralls» and they are a pillar of the beauty of the city.
But how can generative art relate with stained glass?
The stained glass windows are most of the time composed with grids, geometry and repetitive structures. Some artisans pushed the idea further and created incredible art pieces with figurative forms or deconstructed compositions.
But what if we could apply the use of new technologies to improve traditional methods?
Generative art is an incredible tool — it allows us to generate hundreds of outputs in seconds. And combined with printing or engraving techniques, we can now produce pieces with highly detailed forms, that could take months or years to be created by an artisan.
My idea was to reinterpret this tradition using new technologies that would help me preserve the work over time. That’s how I came to this five-piece collection, «Finestra».
3D prototype in: Blender and p5.js
Finestra means window in Catalan and is an invitation to explore the old world mixed with the automation of our modern society. Finestra is fine art and culture inscribed in the most robust and secure chain — a window that can’t be broken.
Finestra is an ordinal collection made in p5.js using recursion and child-parent provenance. All pieces are inscribed in uncommon sats — the first satoshi created in the coinbase of each Bitcoin Block.
Each piece can redeem a physical signed artwork printed by Asprey Studio.
The artworks were made for The Art of Ordinals event, on April 17th in the Asprey Studio gallery, and Vivid assisted with the coding implementation and inscription.
Year: 2024
Price: 12.000 USD (0.19 BTC) per piece
Collection: 5 pieces
Technique: Generative art in p5.js and museum quality print
Status: SOLD OUT
