Discord logo factory. 3D animation, 10-second loop, 30 fps. Created using Cinema4D, X-Particles, Octane, and After Effects. Originally posted on TikTok (@jigpx) on 2/20/21. 47.5m+ views, 3.2m+ likes (as of 4/22/21).

The term “Fuku” refers to fortune or good luck. “Shiva” refers to the Hindu deity who represents strongly polar qualities, both severe and delicate. On a beach inspired by adventures on Phi Phi island in Thailand, three youths cavort. Two are representational figures and the third is psychologically rendered. A dynamic relationship ensues between the triad; a reciprocity of active and passive states. The boy on the right engages in maneuvers of evasion, defense, and is dressed in a speedo which reiterates the colors and symbolism of the caution tape on the left and upper right frame of the composition. In concurrent reaction the psychedelic figure shoots out a rocket powered paper airplane. The nude boy seated in the froth and sand approaches in passive repose, and is met with active attention but equal physical reserve by the psychedelic being. Perhaps the most naked figure is also the least representational. Looming large, dynamic, and active, it engages its companions playfully. Various symbols interject into the otherwise naturalistic scene, most notably a beach ball and two contaminated barrels nested in the sand. The upright barrel reads “FukuShima” in Kanji. The barrel laying down reads “Dharma”. To the left the scene is bounded by caution tape, reiterating the danger of the nuclear waste while also hosting alien archetypes, whose presence, as is the nature of these entities, runs up and just behind the consciousness of the psychedelic figure’s eggshell-like skull.

Hello, world—I just minted myself as an interface. The avatar you see is me, about to embark on a six month creative journey that you co-lead. This is my genesis NFT. Equip my feet, my hands, and my torso with six unlocked wearables to determine my creative tools, environment, and approach. I will check in with the Master Layer daily, and document the process and results on my socials. Three dynamic layers each include three state-changes: Hands = Tools: paint palette & brush - "painting" violin & bow - "music" empty hands Chest = Environment: coder tee - "digital" burner tee - "analog" blank tee Feet = Approach: hiking boots - "explorations" tightrope - "exercises" bare feet How the states of these three layers interact, shapes the output. If wearables remain unchanged, then I'll dive deeper in that direction. If wearables switch often, I'll make that part of the process. In this way, layer owners can be as hands-on or hands-off as they want. I will keep going regardless. I believe that wonderful things emerge from where chance and intention meet... Also major #fails, which are a part of this too! Locked Inventory Every two months, a new NFT unlocks six new wearables, and the previous get retired. The performance moves containers in this way, and I will look to the new Master Layer for creative prompts. At the end of six months, there will be a surprise gift sent out to the original owners of all three NFTs, as a thank you for being my first supporters and co-creators in this space. About Me I've spent the better part of a decade making visual art, and now find myself circling back to my first loves: music and tech. You can get a sense of my work and career at www.wi-ch.com This project is a blockchain-first interactive performance piece. I hope it inspires others to engage with their own creativity in strange & wonderful new ways. I am sincerely grateful to all my supporters, collaborators, and mentors, past, future, present, and in parallel timelines^^ Showing up every day to create, in relationship to this space and the greater world, is my commitment to approaching life as art—with purpose, playfulness, and a generous misting of magic. You can find me on IG @weseeclearly, where all my other socials are linked.

By OthersideDeployer

A figure, Alex, stands mostly naked in the midst of a physical and psychological maelstrom. He is clad only in nostalgic 80’s era socks, on a tenuous island between active waters and a variety of shark denizens. Sharks on the right side of the image are all beached, including a shark with a quartz crystal snout, an orange shark wrapped in a life buoy, and a shark further in the distance wearing an 80’s style shirt with the number “88”. On the left side is the largest shark, wearing bright glossy red lipstick and brandishing prominent teeth with braces. She is cordoned off from the figure by a roped float divider, and within her thought bubble is a warning symbol. Behind the figure, hovering in the air, are Grey aliens emerging from the distance, out of a series of elliptical UFO shaped interdimensional membranes. The Greys take on the visual form of spermazoa ostensibly impregnating the interdimensional thresholds. As is typical, these Greys inhabit a zone just behind the unconscious topology of Alex’s dissociative mind. Though Alex’s bottom half is representative, his top half mutates into a psychological cornucopia. In a manner akin to “Auto-Erotic Sphinx”, a predecessor work, the figure has self suctioned—an act of sensual infatuation, enjoyment, and exploration. Upward exists the figure’s primary conscious eye, adorned with a revolutionary beret emblazoned with a Bitcoin badge. The figure’s summit features the nose of a fighter jet facing off against video game Bullet Bills, one of whom is marked by a communist North Korean star. A cropped section of a UFO observes the contest. Alex’s mind branches both left and right. To the left is more singular embodied consciousness, manifesting two eyes and a Ganesh trunk grasping crayons. The right branch dissociates upward diagonally, emerging into an array of eyes, faces, teeth, tail, a unicorn horn, and much more—all of which participate in expressing his unconscious being; a democracy of psychic factions representing thought impressions and associations. All illumination and darkness– fernal, infernal, high consciousness and corporeal underbelly–reside in this realm. In the distance are relatively languid, light clouds, and against the firmament hovers a colossal distant eye peering over the scene and far beyond. This painting possesses underlying genetic traits with previous works such as “Auto-Erotic Sphinx with Toys”, “Dionysus”, and “Fuku-Shiva”. The work serves also as a nod to an earlier period of art inspiration during late teens and early twenties— born out of the nakedness, vulnerability, curiosity, and wonder inherent to coming of age and all subsequent psychedelic revelation.