in osculari

Starting price: 3,450.00 USDC

Artist: Jacek Markusiewicz >

The building block is a cube: a unit of virtual matter separated from the external void by six square faces of digital bark.

Growth begins when two cubes are attached face to face. The bark that separates them disappears, and the blocks fuse into a single organism. Each cube can expand like this in one of six directions, ultimately branching into an orthogonal tree-like structure that can fill infinite extents of Cartesian space with interconnected square faces.

When two faces meet in this system, the branches they belong to can combine. It is as if the digital bark encapsulating virtual matter has gradually peeled away, and the exposed inner tissue hidden beneath the faces blends together — a healing process in which two branches converge and begin to grow as one.

This growth tells a story about the resilience of a living being and how its fragmented parts come together to create a new wholeness. The newly found unity offers strength and hope for regeneration.

While constrained by its own expansion, the tree ensures that no part obstructs another from view. The viewer's eye gives the structure purpose and motivation to grow, but the expansion is jagged and chaotic. Limited to straight angles, the tree takes the shape of a human-made composition. It is a blend of primitive architecture with futuristic structures, and it is unclear whether it is still in construction or already in a state of ruin.

This original algorithm was modified by Jacek to generate unique sculptures optimised for fabrication while retaining the rules of the original algorithms. This sculpture is one of the results of this modification.

In osculari is part of a fundraiser for curing Parkinson’s with @Cure3Exhibition,

The exhibition, organized to raise funds and awareness for the @CureParkinsonsT was curated by Alex Estorick and Foteini Valeonti in collaboration with fxhash.