10 Billion Squames - 2022-23
This is our most ambitious project in the pipeline - needing more planning, collaboration and funding.
A collaborative project to connect the whole planet through our skin, to form a vast, mesmerising, patchwork quilt.
The work explores the dual nature of our simultaneous:
sameness & difference and individuality & universality.
It will also provide skin health promotion, aimed at reducing the occurrence and impact of skin cancers.
As contributors, we upload an image of our skin. Contributions are digitised & fired across the sky to become blocks/tiles of blue fabric that join together as part of the patchwork of the quilt of a worldwide community.
Each block also creates a mindful place for each contributor.
Imagine everyone in the world has a chance to have a representation of their skin (as a tone of blue) randomly allocated to a space in the quilt - free to join.
To crowdfund this idea we have to mock up a very, very basic version, where contributors can select a tile, donate and choose to have their donation listed as a show of support.
When we launch and as the artwork forms, there will be NFT artwork opportunities - contributors will be in a draw to receive some of the first NFTs artworks.
Very basic demo of the framework being developed
Make a donation to the OpenArtSurgery Ltd
It all begins with an idea.
This is only a framework, the artwork will evolve with time.
As contributors, we upload an image of our skin. Contributions are digitised & fired across the sky to become blocks/tiles of blue fabric that join together as part of the patchwork of the quilt of a worldwide community.
Each block also creates a mindful place for each contributor.
Imagine everyone in the world has a chance to have a representation of their skin (as a tone of blue) randomly allocated to a space in the quilt - free to join.
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We’re a Not-for-profit company.
Aiming for:
70% to patient services
30% to R&D and costs (health promotion games & related art development)
(Fundraising and running a non-profit company incurs some costs & fees - the above figures are after transaction fees, HMRC and taxes - which we aim to keep to a minimum)
We are going to crowdfund this idea
I would like to work with the British Skin Foundation & the Primary Care Dermatology Service.