Leitmotif, Nihilist, Epitome

The enlightened proletariat’s chip on the shoulder.
Reading without recourse to talk it over.
Tripping over pronunciations.
Leitmotif, Nihilist, Epitome.

— Ronnie Angel Pope

Physical and Virtual Installation
MP4 | GLB | STL | PLA | Dimensions Variable

Leitmotif, Nihilist, Epitome is the face of a poem birthed and formed in AI from the words of Ronnie Angel Pope. Between physical, digital, and virtual objects, the installation invokes the oral tradition of poetry, when verse breathes into physical dimension. In this moment, the pronounced poem takes on a singular form with each reading and evokes the world, memories, and voice of the speaker.

Using a series of AI models to translate text to body, the process captures an anomalous variation from repeated generative readings. Created in the isolation of AI and responding to Pope’s verse, the artwork trips over its pronunciation to ask, ‘what is the embodiment of the ill-fitting word?’ 

Collectors of the limited edition artwork ‘Leitmotif, Nihilist, Epitome’ on @objktcom can download the following content unlockable through wallet verification via the link provided by the artist:

MP4 of virtual installation | 1920x1440 | 0:16
MP4 of silent narrated poem | 1920x1440 | 0:16
GLB (three virtual sculptures)
STL (3D printable files of all three sculptures)

A special 1/1 edition includes the first edition physical print of the sculptures. 

Featured in POÈME SBJKT, an exhibition of works of literature both on and off the blockchain that enhance, reinvent, and reimagine the relationship between text and image, analog and digital, blurring and challenging the lines that seek to divide.

POÈME SBJKT was curated by theVERSEverse in partnership with L’Avant Galerie Vossen and takes place at Librairie Métamorphoses in Paris from May 25 - July 15, 2023.