With his most recent creation still practically cooling, Florea says he's already begun his next phase of printing. The artist wants to continue exploring readymade digital imagery by focusing his talents onto a much smaller scale with a series of 3D-printed, pigment-fused deposition paintings—the "supertextural" opposite of Murakami's superflat artworks, the artist explains in a press release.

As for his long-term goals, Florea has much grander plan: to “build a farm of open source 3D printers to be able to bring to light the thousands of shapes” that are just waiting to be discovered, he says, at the depths of his hard drive. Vice