Freedom (2022)
As included in the NFCastle exhibition 2022, this piece challenged me to think about my identity and answers the exhibition's question: 'With the ability that blockchain technology gives us to preserve all sorts of media in an immutable manner, what culture or identity close to your heart would you choose to distill to a single work (or series) to live on forever'.
The text of the Dutch constitutional article 7 is chosen to be part of this artwork. This article describes freedom of speech. It is included in both Dutch and English in the artwork. Every little square of the artwork, is in fact a single letter with a specific background.
This artwork is an HTML page: every little square contains one character of text and has a specific background color. It is designed to be displayed on a monitor with ratio 16:9 (landscape), but it will adapt to any screen ratio. After the artwork has been loaded, the squares have a fixed size. When the browser window is changed after that, the artwork will break. The little cubes that make up the artwork, will be pushed to another row. This breaks the original pattern.
While the visual appearance changes, the text stays unchanged.
Freedom has been exhibited at the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague Castle, Czech Republic, in October/November 2022.
When generating a large render, the text becomes readable.
As described on the artwork page (see links below), alternative versions can be rendered in the web browser. This is a generative artwork, with endless variations.
Related links
Etherscan transaction - Freedom is 100% on chain. The entire code for the artwork and the description, are on-chain, as can be seen in this Etherscan transaction.
Freedom on the NFCastle website - The artwork page for Freedom, as part of the 2022 collection.
NFcastle website - Non-Fungible Castle 2022 will explore how blockchain technology can be used to rediscover, share, and preserve our cultural identities.
Freedom on Open Sea - View the NFT token on Open Sea. In case you are interested in purchasing this token, you can contact me by e-mail, or make an offer on OpenSea.