What If

What If is my New Year’s resolution in visual form. One of my favorite poems is Samual Taylor Coleridge’s, What If you Slept. I have read it a thousand times, and yet it never fails to leave me in a state of wonder and awe, in love with beauty and possibility. I want to spend 2023 in just that state.

What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in your hand
Ah, what then?
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This first work of 2023 also introduces a pricing innovation. For the first week, collectors of my previous projects may collect the token for free. At the beginning of the 2nd week, the remaining editions will be offered for sale to new collectors. At the beginning of the third week, the remaining editions will be burned. I intend to use this sales approach for at least six months while releasing at least one project per month. My goal is to reduce my fretting about the sales and marketing aspects of my art, to reward my supporters, and to encourage livelier secondary trading of my work. Let the experiment begin.

This piece uses custom fonts created by the artist as visual and symbolic components. Being fonts, these are pre-rendered. All other components are algorithmic.

Created by Wanda Oliver (wandaoliver.tez) in Jan., 2023.
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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