The Thing

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When you don't know what something is, you call it the thing. It looks like a plant, moves like an animal, and dies like a star. The whole universe is captured in this NFT.

It takes a lot of effort to make a basket. But like all hard to build things, it can be easily destroyed. This animation shows the intricate details of assembling a basket and how quickly it can be sent into oblivion. 

Throughout the universe, we see order emerging from chaos in one place while in another place we see order disintegrating into chaos. This NFT captures the eternal cycle of order and chaos and in turn the never ending fight between construction and destruction.

From the seeds in a sunflower to the stars in a galaxy, the underlying theme is the spiral. This NFT follows the journey of the spiral across the universe.

From the beginning of time to the present, life always starts with a bang. Sometimes the birth is sudden, sometimes it is gradual, but we never cease to be amazed when something new emerges. This NFT imitates the gradual growth of a flower and the sudden explosion of a supernova, and hence the name Astro Flower.

We keep moving, but stay where we are. We go through phases, but we are always the same. It is amazing that although we constantly experience change, somehow we keep running in circles. The name of this NFT says it all.

It is known that the hexagon is the most effective way to tile the plane. But it is still a mystery how honeybees make their honeycomb as a tile of hexagonal cells. This NFT portrays purple bees trying to transform their wax into a hexagon. 

So many times in our life, we witness a living creature gives birth to another before it dies. This NFT shows a lifeless creature being sucked by a lively one and in a twist of fate the roles are exchanged.

You throw the net in the sea and wait. When you pull the line, sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss. The tides, the waves, the ups and downs of the human condition are all captured by the net.

A spring flows out and then sinks in. Another spring is stretched and then compressed. This NFT illustrates the dilemma of being squeezed knowing that rebounding is the only way out.