ILKΞR

Photographer & Multidisciplinary Artist |
WWA Member @ObscuraDAO |
by: @x6highx

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BEYOND THE MOMENT collection is now live on Foundation. ☀️🎞️🎥

Through cinemagraphs blending photography, videography, 3D, and AI, each piece reveals inner echoes, silent transformations, and unspoken intuitions. 

https://t.co/T2xi9oEvSZ

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~$670M/yr is what voodoo does.

$DROPEE at 10% of that would out-earn most tokens in the entire market.

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@MintOfTheDay @dropee_app Which exchange’s wallet address is suitable for claiming the Dropee airdrop?

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Mental healing. 🦋

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@ROBNESSOFFICIAL +1 ✨💎✨

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GM! 🧑🏻‍🎨 ❤️

Thanks to everyone who supported, experienced, and shared my work.
With each piece, I discovered more of myself and told a new story.

Here for new creations, experiences, and deeper narratives.

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Each one in their own universe

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By Paul Weiner

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'DECOUPLED'
My latest 1/1 is here 🔥

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Within the contemporary visual ecosystem shaped by filters, algorithms, synthetic images, and artificial intelligence, photography can no longer be understood solely as an act of recording. Between the eye and the world stands a technical apparatus that is far from neutral. It organizes perception, conditions decisions, and defines what can and cannot become visible.

Vilém Flusser proposed understanding photography as a game, but not an innocent one. The camera does not function as a transparent tool. It operates as a programmed system with which the photographer enters into tension. To photograph is to play against the apparatus, to explore its possibilities, push its limits, and seek what the program does not anticipate. In this sense, the photographic gesture unfolds within a field of contestation between automation and human intention.

To think photography today is to acknowledge this struggle and to recognize that freedom is not guaranteed. As Flusser warned, within the realm of automatic apparatuses, the space for action contracts. Yet this diagnosis does not lead to passivity. Instead, it generates an urgency to imagine critical strategies, including modes of technical disobedience, friction, and reappropriation of the device.

The question, then, is not only what images we produce, but under what conditions they are produced, and who or what governs that process. What space remains for imagination, decision-making, and responsibility when vision itself is articulated within systems that tend toward automation?

Untitled, 1998-2001 by Gregory Crewdson

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Physical Fucking Art

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Howl (2025)

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@masisus @gokcay Gm guys! Have a great day ✨

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@thecgritual Gmorning! ☀️ I love this piece.

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5/-fin
The philosophy of photography begins where the question of existence itself begins.

So, what separates AI hyperrealism from the hyperrealism of photography?

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Lately, I’ve noticed that most NFT artworks created entirely by AI revolve around female figures aesthetic, hyperrealistic, yet often surprisingly cheap.

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So, what truly separated photography from painting?
- Light.
Every brushstroke in a painting carries the artist’s subjective touch, while photography captures what humanity perceives as the real — the light itself.