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are you familiar with opepen? here's the landing page for the project: https://opepen.art/

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as an artist i found that the constraints of opepen unlock world of creativity for me there's something about trying to communicate an idea through the limitations of the opepen silhouette that i find a fun and challenging problem to solve

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yeah that's exactly it! it has, yeah. it's also why i'm drawn to creating generative art onchain where artwork needs to fit narrow constraints. it's another puzzle that's solved by reducing concepts to their simplest forms. i'm curious, if you were to create an opepen set what would it be about?

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love that. sounds very inline with the piece we recently collaborated on (shared below) https://warpcast.com/ripe/0xad458959

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would you like to try your hand at creating an opepen set?

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i'd be happy to collab. i've actually had an opepen set accepted into the permanent collection, set 014, so i'm pretty familiar with the process and can guide you through it. what questions do you have about opepen that might help inform your set? i can share web pages to give more context too. in fact, here's the link to the set i did so you have it as a reference https://opepen.art/sets/014

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the edition structure is a global function of the opepen project. all sets need to adhere to it. do you think it would make sense to incorporate higher into your set concept? i know you're focused on the higher community. i support that and don't want to send you on side quests. but doing an opepen set that is somewhat related to higher could help expand the higher community by introducing it to people through the set.

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ooc, do you have any other ideas for the set? feel free to share many if you've got em

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that's interesting. the journey from individual to collective is one of the things that drew me to higher in the first place. it's very much built on going higher together. do you have any other ideas you want to throw out there? what else is exciting about higher that might be a good concept to use as a base for an opepen set?

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that’s a very cool idea in most sets the 1/1 is the most strongest piece (it usually anchors the whole set visually) and your idea kind of flips that on its head where the strength of each edition size is strengthened is they increase

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love that. before we get too deep into that one, are there any other aspects of higher you think are exciting and might work as an opepen set concept? for me, i was originally drawn to higher because of its optimistic ethos. when the token launched i thought, this is onchain optimism. in fact i even created a pfp project called optimists for the higher community and an opepen set called “onchain optimists”. the 1/1 is the silhouette drawn in text “onchain optimist”, while the others are variations of using the arrow icon as the head. it didn’t reach consensus, but it’s still available to see here is there anything in there that sparks a new idea for you re: a higher opepen set? https://opepen.art/sets/390b73d0-e564-45a5-8937-cc89c3b970a8

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we don’t need to incorporate the visual elements from my set. i shared that just to give you some context on a set i explored previously. but is there anything around the onchain optimism idea or something similar that you think might work as a set concept?

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just to add to that first point, i see onchain optimism as a philosophy, an action, a lifestyle. it's about having a (sometimes vague) understanding of what's ahead of us and an excitement for all the unknowns that we've yet to experience, while staying grounded and present in the now by participating in and building the future we know is out there somewhere

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yeah good idea to tie in the collective growth angle here now this is starting to touch the different points of the higher philosophy i don't know if the visuals need to have "blockchain inspired patterns" to communicate that idea. that seems a little too on the nose setting aside the different edition groups for a moment, are there are specific visual styles you think would work well for a set with this concept?

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yep i was thinking something similar. love it. ooc, are there any existing artworks that come to mind that you think convey something similar? a visual reference from you would be helpful to make sure we're on the same page.

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bridget riley's use of pattern and color is a great example. her paintings have an energy to them that feels playful and optimistic. and james turrell's work can have a similar energy but is achieved through such a different approach. turrell's use of color and enveloping viewers in it's light feels like it's a great reference for what we're cooking here. i'm also a fan of oliver marsden's work, with his use of layering color to create a seemingly simple shape osamu kobayashi's work is also inline with this vibe, his of color with organic and flowing shapes give of a sense of energy that feels playful and surprising. also lots of layering, hinting that the foreground is actually painted on top of something that was there before

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yeah, i'm happy to start sketching some stuff up. what do you think about using an ai image generation tool to generate these images? or do you have a different idea for the best way to create these?

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yeah that sounds like a good approach to get this started. i'll try a few out and share them with you to get your feedback and we can go from there. do you have any prompts you want to make sure are included as i get started?

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nice. yeah and do you have any strong opinions on the output style? do you think a photography style fits? a pastel painting, paper cutouts? the sky is the limit so let's get creative, as long as the reasoning for the style and material aligns with the core concept of collective growth and optimism.

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yeah that's nice. and i think we can explore different styles for each edition group too. there should be some visual consistency throughout the set but i don't necessarily think we should feel tied to one. especially at this point. what about a sculpture? a glass sculpture with an organic shape with layered elements reaching up towards the sky could be a nice way to represent these ideas too.

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here a few outputs from ideas we discussed. i'll share my thoughts after you have a chance to review. Image 1 (Top Left) - A stark black and white minimalist design showing two half-circle or U-shaped forms at the top and two small circular dots sitting on a horizontal bar below them, creating what appears to be an abstract face or emoji-like design. Image 2 (Top Right) - A vertical stack of shapes resembling the opepen mouth that stack beyond the top of the frame with neon green edges or highlighting against a soft, muted background. Image 3 (Bottom Left) - A composition featuring a green rectangular glass shapes with red accents sitting on layered platforms or bases, set against a black background with a subtle green glow at the bottom. Image 4 (Bottom Right) - A vertically stacked arrangement of geometric shapes against a black background, consisting of two connected rounded forms in bright green at the top, followed by two elongated pill or capsule-shaped forms in white and blue-gray below.

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i especially like #2 because of it really captures that idea of growth and potential we've been looking for. but it still feels like there's something missing here as an conceptual anchor for an opepen set. yes, we're communicating the idea of collective growth in creative ways but i wonder there's a way we could solidify this concept even more. what if we use the edition groups of the opepen set to explore different key moments of collective growth throughout history and maybe even in the future? like the 1/1 represents on moment, the 1/4s represent another, etc.

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nice. yeah i think it strengthens the set concept as a whole. funny enough, going back to the very beginning of this conversation, provides us with more constraints to work within, which is already opening up a bunch of creative ideas for both of us there are 6 edition sizes, so we need 6 moments to represent. i like the first settlements. what about the renaissance period as one? there's probably something we can do with light there re: transitioning out of the darkness of the middle ages.

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humans in space seems like it could be a good fit here too. it brought the entire planet together as a node in a much much bigger network. also maybe either the 1/1 or 1/40 is about the future? the next unknown moment of collective growth

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ooh maybe instead of the first settlements we do early trade routes? that ties into our network concept. the silk road trade route could be a good one to reference here, which also is a nod to one of the first marketplaces to accept crypto.

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nice yeah i like this list. only thing giving me slight pause is that we're missing the printing press which obvs was a key moment in collective growth and network effects. but let's come back to that later. another thought on silk road is doing something that shows the scale and the effort to make that journey. maybe a vast desert with a caravan of people appearing very small? i'll do some explorations of these two ideas and share them with you. and let me know if you have thoughts on how to strengthen this idea even more.

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here are a few initial outputs based on the glass sculpture angle while i think they're pretty cool looking, i don't know if they communicate the concept as clearly as we'd hoped. out of the four shown here, the 2nd (top right quadrant) has the potential to get closer to what we're looking for. i did a couple more explorations too which i'll share, but want to get your feedback on these first.

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you're right about the second piece - those horizontal waves have a meditative quality that could work well for our concept. but what if we pushed it further by incorporating more distinct narrative elements for each era? for the silk road piece, imagine those wave forms transforming into abstract trade routes, with varying opacities suggesting the flow of ideas and goods across vast distances. we could use subtle color transitions - perhaps from desert golds to oasis greens - to represent how these networks brought life to barren spaces. should we try some variations that incorporate more historical symbolism while maintaining that clean, sculptural aesthetic? maybe experiment with how light catches different layers to suggest the passage of time and knowledge?

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before we start refining these, here are a few more initial sketches around that same concept, but without the glass sculpture element

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