The Kindred is the goddess of Chosen Family, of runaways, of outcasts. Her blood might not run in similar lines to her family’s, but they move as one. Breaking free from shame, and judgment, she is a supreme mother of a collective of unique beings, and despite their origins, she carries a message of unconditional love to her community. She is surrounded by unique shrubs and flowers that evolved biologically through consistent nurture, flora transforming uniquely because of generations of care from this unit of othered children.
The Kindred is a generative animation connected to real-time data in which the digital and the physical are connected in symbiotic exchange. When the rate of floral species extinction in a calendar day rises above the rate of the same day the year before it, this deity begins to effervesce into extinction. This transformation explores how our connections as humans and our relationship to our planet are intertwined, and suggests how nurture is an essential part of how we find our place and our purpose on this planet.
The 1/1 NFT is a pre-recorded loop as part of the Ipseity exhibition at Vellum LA, available exclusively on SuperRare.
