Filament. In the flow-field tradition.

The pair

One purchase. Two artworks. The Edition piece is one I picked out of a working pile. The Twin piece is yours. You roll it at checkout on the slot machine. Same algorithm, same resolution, same pair number on both. The halves stay linked on chain.

The Edition is the one I picked. The Twin is yours. Two halves of one frame.

The palettes

Every palette in the edition is named for an Italian place, painter, or process. Seventeen in total. Morandi for the quietest dusty earth tones; Murano for the loudest jewel tones on velvet black. Carpaccio, Notturno, Glaciale, Foglio, Tramonto, Pesaro, Marche, Lucente, Fresco, Terra, Ombra, Piero, Raffaello, Appennino, Montefeltro.

Each palette gets its own movement in the mint sequence. #001 through #250 are grouped by palette so the edition reads as a series of color worlds rather than a random shuffle.

The algorithm

Layered simplex noise drives a flow field. Curves are traced through the field, smoothed, and rendered as chains of beads with collision-aware spacing. Each bead picks a treatment (solid, rings, split, pie, dots, hollow) weighted per piece. The whole pipeline is deterministic. Same seed, same render, forever.

Implementation is original. The lineage of flow-field algorithms applied to generative art goes back through decades of work in the field. This is one quiet entry.

The name

A filament is what connects galaxies. The largest structure in the universe — a thread of dark matter and gas running across hundreds of millions of light-years. The threads formed before the galaxies did. They came first; matter condensed at the junctions where threads cross.

The collection is named for that. Each piece is a junction. The seed is the gravity. The render is what condenses.

The artist

In crypto since 2013, early enough to have made animated explainer videos for Namecoin, Storj, Tokenly, and more, when most people still couldn't say "blockchain." That work meant translating systems that didn't have a face yet, which is most of what I still do.

I'm always rotating through tools. Mostly digital, not exclusively. Each collection is a way to test a workflow I haven't tried before. Filament is the current one.

The sibling

Filament is one piece of a longer thread. Its sibling, Giverny Phos, renders galaxy formation continuously and is broadcast on Twitch. Filament is what condensed at one junction. Phos is what's still flowing through the others.

See Phos →

FAQ

Why two artworks per mint?

Most generative drops are either fully artist-curated (you get what was made) or fully open (you mint a random seed). Filament does both at once: the Edition piece is one I picked, the Twin piece is yours, delivered together. It's the cleanest resolution we could find of curation versus participation.

How does rolling work?

When you reach checkout, you're sent to Filament Play with a deep-link tied to your Edition piece. A three-reel slot machine picks an Italian word combination (e.g. dolce-corvo-42), the algorithm renders the piece, and you decide. Roll as many times as you want. When you find one you like, lock it and mint the pair.

Is it on Art Blocks?

No. Independent. The pair-mint architecture needs a custom contract; Art Blocks scripts mint one ERC-721 per buyer with a single image. Filament needs two.

What chain?

Ethereum mainnet. Supports both crypto wallets and credit-card checkout via a fiat relayer.

How much?

0.038 ETH per pair. Two artworks, one mint, flat price across the edition.

What does ownership look like?

Each pair delivers two NFTs to your wallet. One Edition token, one Twin token, linked by metadata (pair_id, twin_token_id). Both are standard ERC-721, freely transferable. You can sell the pair together or split them on the secondary market.

Can I mint just the Edition without the Twin?

No. The pair is the unit. Both halves arrive in the same transaction. Splitting them at mint would collapse the whole model into either a regular curated drop or a regular open seed mint; the pair is the point. After mint, the two tokens are independent ERC-721s and the secondary market can do whatever it wants with them.

Is Filament Play free?

Yes. Completely. Anyone can roll, share, and save locally. Play is open before, during, and after the mint. When you buy a pair, the same machine rolls your Twin half. The free toy and the mint flow share a UI.