Behold The Ocean

Chapter 1

The Photography Collection

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Fear. That's what I felt most when thinking about getting on the ship.

The ocean is the earth's largest organism, just like the human skin is ours, and we have to surrender to it completely. My relationship to water is complex, maybe because I was severely burnt as a one-year-old. But on the other side of fear, we find the new. At this frontier of the unknown, art and science intersect.

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Patagonia has the third largest ice reserves in the world.

This ecosystem is being disrupted:
Ocean acidification, global warming, retreating glaciers.

I produced Behold The Ocean in Chile in December 2020, during the global pandemic when governmental measurements severely affected environmental research, resulting in data gaps, the significance of which is yet to be determined. The project documents a scientific expedition to the Southernmost of Patagonia in globally turbulent times and my personal experience during that period.

Now, I am using the work to map our rapidly changing nature to the blockchain as an act of future-proof preservation. With the proceeds, friend and marine biologist Max Vergara and I put together and fund a scientific expedition to Cape Horn in 2022. When we return, we’ll publish the environmental data on-chain.

macrocystis pyrifera [Patagonia]

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This Is Not A Portrait

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Sampling Water

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oceanographic sensors

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mountains, mountains – emerald

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mountains, mountains – purple

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crowded buoy

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Here, now

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blue acid

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Marco Pinto

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Airport Punta Arenas

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green cluster

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assessments

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depth is measured

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It Is A Back And Forth

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glass hand

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History

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another day at sea

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grey cluster

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mixotroph

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The Orb Last Night

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The Orb

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Wind

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Empty Street in Punta Arenas

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Permiso, Punta Arenas #1

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Permiso, Punta Arenas #2

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king penguin

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king penguin by himself

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point in time

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sensor – first frame

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core

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water stone air

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San Isidro Lighthouse – Cabo Froward

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El Capitán

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Wrong Way

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Closed

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Last Night #01

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Last Night #03

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Last Night #02

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Last Night #04

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red tide

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phytoplankton

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first encounters

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More Mountains and Grain

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Victor y Oscar

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as above so below

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Covid and Torres del Paine

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Estrecho de Magallanes

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A poetic visual non-fiction story about an intimate relationship with the earth’s largest organism—the oceanA poetic visual non-fiction story about an intimate relationship with the earth’s largest organism—the oceanA poetic visual non-fiction story about an intimate relationship with the earth’s largest organism—the ocean

Chapter 2

SOURCE

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4444 unique photographic ocean NFTs with rarity traits minted on a custom ERC721 smart contract. Each NFT is made of three layers with different rarity weights:

Layer I

An altered, manipulated fraction of one of the project's key photographs, taken from the Strait of Magellan in December 2020 during the scientific expedition in Patagonia where I produced Behold The Ocean.

Layer II

One of over 200 handmade individual color gradients that resemble visual and chemical uncontrollable, unique occurrences in my analog color darkroom workflow.

Layer III

An abstract artifact pattern of the real, raw oceanographic data retrieved from the part of the ocean that was photographed in Layer I.