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 when value, attention, and meaning were being rapidly negotiated through collective participation, the work functioned as an observational mirror. Drawing from the 1634 Dutch Tulip Mania, it explored ideas of time, impermanence, and speculative value through the lifecycle of a tulip, unfolding in four chapters:

Birth, Life, Afterlife, and Memory.

By aligning natural growth with the accelerated pace of digital markets, Remember Me considered whether cultural cycles might resemble biological ones.

Released as a free 24-hour open edition on April 11, 2022, the work spread rapidly throughout the NFT community, with more than 39,000 wallets minting the token. Its circulation became an extension of the questions embedded within the work, reflecting the role that collective participation can play in shaping cultural and economic value.

⚘ “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)