REMEMBER ME

⚘ A Story About Us ⚘

Remember Me (2022) was a digital installation responding to the sociological patterns and speculative behaviors that defined the 2021–2022 NFT market. Released during a period where value, attention, and meaning were shaped by collective frenzy, this performance piece functioned as both critique and mirror. Rooted in ideas of time, impermanence, and speculative value, the project drew parallels from the Dutch Tulip Mania, structuring itself around a tulip’s lifecycle in four chapters: Birth, Life, Afterlife, and Memory. By aligning natural decay with the speed of digital speculation, Remember Me examined if 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 community at a massive scale. Over 39,000 wallets minted the token, turning the project into a live experiment in virality, collective behavior, and the impact of speculative value during a historic era in the digital art world.

“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 life cycle of a tulip, after two weeks all flowers vanished and permanently left behind a blank screen titled Memory. Though blockchain archives all images on-chain, Memory remains as a relic of the collective experience.

Remember Me (2022)

Tulip Mania, auction context at Sotheby's, March 4th, 2023