Sourcing inscription data on Bitcoin, this algorithmic collection reconstructs early Ordinals into abstract collage.
Inscribed on 300 uncommon sats in one transaction, confirmed in 17 seconds, with parent/child provenance and metadata, taking up only 45kb of data on-chain using recursion.
I was deeply inspired after visiting the Picasso museum during NFT Paris. Cubism, the rawness, the oils, the output, the man, the history. I wanted to create something raw, but digital.
Instead of paint, I started to riff with early ordinal inscriptions, code, and AI. Through minimalism, reconstruction and collage, I started to get some really cool results, recursively arranging early inscriptions.
Admittedly, I wasn’t initially impressed with early inscriptions. I thought they were crude, lazy, pixelated garbage. They’ve grown on me. I now view them as historic artifacts by pioneers to be celebrated for years to come.
After generating thousands of outputs I curated them down to a low-supply collection of 300 of my favorite works. Self-curation was important for Recursions, as my recent installations BitBlocks and Fusion allowed the minter to curate the outputs.