This painting is the latest from my DESIGNOIDs series of paintings and the first that was minted under the same name on SuperRare Series starting on 22 June 2022.

DESIGNOIDs series has been in the making for five years now. The concept behind it illustrates alien creatures that are analogues to my real-life experiences. They often represent persons in my life or fears that I have. The ideas behind them focus mostly on my subconscious. The raw sketches are made without much thought before starting. The shapes come through intuition. They are elaborated as I go and I find the true meaning behind them, connecting the organic shapes to my life experiences and attributing meaning to them.

Designoid 2C came up as a nightmare. In the painting, you can see me trying to fix it but as I came to believe later in life, nightmares are one of the pleasures in life, because when you wake up, life is sweeter. Nightmares provide a way to fix reality. Fixing my nightmare is not something I desire now, instead I crave the feeling of waking up from one.

The term “DESIGNOID” was coined by biologist Richard Dawkins and refers to an object that came up by accident but appears to be designed. I started this series while I was thinking about Entropy and how life is an inevitable result of the macro and micro-processes of the universe. Life is a catalyst of Entropy, If given the right conditions life will spontaneously appear, abiding by its laws and, very importantly, accelerating it. At first glance, it looks like life has a purpose and design but it is just a means to an end, which is to increase the state of entropy. As entropy in the universe continues to increase, heat will continue to spread until the system has reached maximum equilibrium.