Panic Blooms presents a take on spring’s bustle and growth being a metaphor for anxiety as the impetus to thrive. It reflects a fear that our attempts to flourish may be fruitless in spite of how exhausting they are; that we are just running in circles while time runs out. Cynical as that may sound, Panic Blooms embraces the frenetic thrill of that play to beat mortality, delusional as it is, hoping that even if we can’t avoid death, we may eventually find ourselves sated with life, having at least tried.

Read a longer statement: jeres.xyz/panic-blooms

Any unrealized iterations at the end of the sale may be minted by the artist for their archives.

Panic Blooms was created using p5js and a shader. Make sure your GPU is enabled. Minor differences may result from how different GPUs behave, and as such, preview images may look slightly different than a live rendering.

Key Commands:
G : Save a 10 frame GIF at 1300x975
S : Save the current frame as a png
P : Play/Pause animation (or mouse click)
A : Advance a frame
Z : Go back a frame

URL Parameters:
?fullscreen=true : Fill entire window
?animated=false : No animation by default
?width=x : Render image with x width (read notes below)
?print=true : Use with "width" to render larger than 5000px wide
?frame=x : Start at frame x
?gwidth=x : Configure GIF export to have x width
?gframes=x : Configure GIF export to have x frames

Render notes:
The default renderer can only render up to about 5000px wide because of how it uses a shader. If you want a super high resolution file for printing, use print mode, as this can render at much higher sizes. Print mode removes the ability to animate.
(e.g.: ?width=12000&print=true)

For high resolution images, please use a Chromium browser (Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc) as Safari gives up pretty easily, at time of publishing at least.