Out-Game-Flowers
A Genesis NFT Collection of Hand-Hacked Digital Bouquets
Presented by Artwrld in partnership with Creative Time
View the collection on OpenSea: large bouquets | small bouquets
Scheduled to launch on Valentine's Day, Out-Game Flowers' digital bouquets are composed of flowers from the world's most popular video games, including The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Minecraft, and more. Magid traveled through these iconic digital worlds, plucking stems from each virtual landscape to craft her first NFT-backed artwork. In their respective worlds, these pixelated plants and photo-realistic flowers are tied to complex economies that drive their value in-game and out.
Magid's work shines a light on the power structures that create and monetize these items. Extracted from their walled gardens and assembled into a bouquet, she introduces the flowers into another closed system—a digital artwork with a secured provenance through blockchain technology. By assigning each flower an out-game value based on its worth in-game, she challenges us to define our own metrics of worth — based not just on economics, beauty, and utility, but also on nostalgia, speculation, and taste.
“ I imagined myself as the naughty girl knocking down the walled gardens of the online gaming landscape to go flower-picking within them.
— Jill Magid
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