Generative art
For most of my career my studio was paint, brushes, canvas and, more recently, an iPad. Not code. Then I started building my own tools, and the brush became a set of rules.
I decide the colors, the shapes, the movement and the mood. The system decides the rest, and every time it runs it surprises me a little.
How it started
From paintbrushes to code.
If you had asked me a few years ago whether I would ever make generative art, I probably would have laughed. Programming felt like a world for developers and engineers, not for someone who mixes oil paint on a palette.
So, yes, I used AI. Not to make the art, but to learn how to build it. I spent hours asking questions, breaking things, fixing them and asking better questions, until one day I realized I wasn’t just copying code anymore. I understood it.
Every artistic decision is still mine, from the rhythm of a line to the palette and the feeling of the piece. AI became one more tool in the studio, the way photography and the iPad did before it.
What I love most is that I don’t know exactly what will appear. I know the rules, I wrote them, and still every new piece shows up as a small surprise. That never gets old.
Live
Collections
Released so far.
Three collections, three different ways of letting a system paint.
Animated Flow
My first generative collection. The pieces don’t exist until someone mints one: at that moment a seed is recorded on-chain and the rules turn it into a composition no one has seen before. It isn’t a video either. Each piece is a small program that keeps drawing itself, live, in your browser.
I built the contract and the mint app myself, so the collection doesn’t depend on any platform to stay alive. Minting costs about one dollar (0.00069 ETH).
Fantastic Creatures
Creatures made entirely in Patterns, the pattern app I built. Thirteen creatures with eight variations each, released as a blind mint on drop.art, so you only meet yours after you collect it. The animated ones bring together five different versions of the same creature.
All 104 have found their collectors. You can still find them on the secondary market.
Botanica
Mandalas grown from photographs. I feed an image into a small app I made, and it folds the picture into symmetry, again and again, until it becomes something new that still carries a trace of the original.
This one grows slowly. As the pieces find new homes, I mint new ones.
Free to use · open now
Patterns, my pattern studio.
Patterns is the app I paint with when I work generatively, and right now it’s open for anyone to use. No wallet, no sign-up. Pick a starting look and a palette and press Random, or open the advanced panel and build your own from scratch.
You choose the elements, from circles and stones to ink lines that wander across the canvas, add drips and splatters, even your own photographs. Arrange them as a scatter, a spiral, a mandala or a kaleidoscope, finish the surface like watercolor paper, a risograph or an old Polaroid, and make it repeat without a seam if you have fabric or wallpaper in mind. It moves too: it can pulse, turn its colors, glitch or paint itself again, and you can save the loop as a GIF or a video.
Your name goes into every file you save. I’m keeping it open while I listen, so if you make something you love, or something breaks, tell me.
In the studio now
Captured Wave.
The piece you saw moving above, before the collections, is running on my newest app, and it isn’t public yet. It’s a fluid simulation: drops, thin strokes and pours of ink fall into the canvas and the current carries them, so the colors fold into each other the way they do in marbling.
Getting there took a lot of stubbornness, because I have one rule I won’t give up. The colors can mix, but they can’t turn to mud. Every time the screen started going gray, I went back and changed how the paint behaves.
It moves slowly, on purpose. Some settings feel like a wave rolling in, some like a slow spiral or liquid simmering, and I can let it run for hours as a live installation or save a loop.
What you see up there is a new composition every time you open the page, and nobody else will see that exact one. When it’s ready, I’ll open it here, the same way I did with Patterns.
Questions
What people ask me.
Is this AI art?
No. AI helped me learn to build the tools. The images are drawn by code, following rules I designed, with palettes, shapes and movement I chose. No AI model generates the pictures.
Do I need a crypto wallet?
Not to explore. Patterns and the Animated Flow app run in any browser. You only need a wallet if you want to collect a piece from one of the collections.
How can a piece not exist before it’s minted?
A generative collection is a set of rules, not a folder of images. When someone mints, a unique number called a seed is created, and the rules turn that seed into one composition. It looks the same every time it’s shown, and no one, not even me, has seen it before.