REMEMBER ME

⚘ A Story About Us ⚘

Remember Me (2022) was a conceptual project responding to the sociological patterns and speculative behaviors that defined the 2021–2022 NFT bull market. Created during a period of extreme acceleration—where value, attention, and meaning were shaped by collective frenzy—the work functioned as both critique and mirror, using the mechanics of the moment as part of its form. Rooted in ideas of time, impermanence, and the archival mythology of blockchain technology, the project drew from the lore of Dutch Tulip Mania, structuring itself around the tulip’s lifecycle in four chapters: Birth, Life, Afterlife, and Memory. By aligning natural transience with the speed of digital speculation, Remember Me examined how cultural hype cycles echo biological ones—brief, vibrant, and inevitably finite.

Released as a free 24-hour open edition on April 11th, 2022, the work spread through the ecosystem at a massive scale. Over 39,000 wallets minted the token, turning the project into a live experiment in virality, collective behavior, and the ephemerality of speculative value during one of the most frenetic eras of digital culture.

“Hello…Are you there? It’s me, you. This is a story about us…Remember Me”

A stop motion video of a tulip taken over 5 days was inverted back into 1000 still images. Each image was programmed to sequentially update every 7 minutes to mirror the original time lapse. Automatically reflected in their wallets, viewers were encouraged to observe the flora growing in “real time'“ by refreshing the metadata. Open’s Sea’s interface reflected each user’s interaction with the artwork, naturally displaying a collection of tulips developing at various stages of the cycle. The penultimate stage revealed itself in the Afterlife, a ghostly garden of transparent tulips.

Mirroring the cycle of life: after two weeks, all the tulips died, and all works were left as a blank screen titled Memory. Inside the Memory token, all assets are readily viewable and archived in the smart contract. This project was a live performance programmed to happen once and never again. The blockchain is used as permanent storage to house all 1,000+ digital assets and recorded timestamps of each phase, while the ephemeral artwork shown on the token juxtaposes this concept entirely.

Remember Me is a time capsule recording a historic period of social frenzy, greed, and capitalism in NFT culture told through the life cycle of a single tulip. This project continually aims to observe the cultural impact NFTs have on our modern society while highlighting their technological properties as immutable data storage.

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