“A broken heart is not an easy thing to repair. Sometimes your heart will break slowly, piece by piece, and that is the hardest breaking of all. Parts of your heart cleave off like a glacier and all that remains is a coldness. A hollowness. A silence of something that once was there. And then another piece breaks. And then another. It seems endless and futile. It begins to confirm that fictional construct that you are not worthy of love. But even if you do not think you are worthy of love, your heart knows it. And it will rebuild itself to prove it to you once again. And when your heart rebuilds itself, you will truly know the same thing your heart knew when it was born and your mother held you: you are worthy of love.” - Trey Ratcliff

This Machine Elf collaboration brings together the generative fractal work of Trey Ratcliff and music composed by Tina Guo to form a visual meditation. In this first release from the series, a limited edition of only 20 videos, each has a variety of different characteristics. Because Tina created this music specifically for the heart chakra, each of the 20 pieces contains a different written “heart musings,” each of which are embedded into the videos at the end. Each of the 20 pieces have a unique rarity based upon the word content of these musings. Tina’s sound meditation became one of the mathematical waveform coefficients that fed into the generation of this fractal. You will notice it move and dance with her cello. Also, #20 of 20 is quite unique, as it is the only one that is rendered in 360, thus making it usable in VR.

This is the first of many Machine Elf collaborations and collectors of multiple artists will reap special benefits. See more about the project at www.the-machine-elf.com or join our fun discord at discord.gg/treyratcliff

Find out more about Trey at www.TreyRatcliff.com or Tina at https://tinaguo.com/