OCTARR

OCTARR is a creative studio designed to connect creators and collectors through unique projects centred around exceptional collectables.

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Forty-eight hours before the end, Cassini turned back for one last look. In the early afternoon of September 13, 2017, the probe recorded this portrait of Saturn and its main rings—then continued inward, toward a planned plunge into the planet’s hazy atmosphere.

It was the closing frame of a mission that had spent years threading the gaps between those rings, mapping moons, and watching storms roll across a world no spacecraft had studied so closely. The image is quiet. The ending was not: two days later Cassini burned up as it fell, protecting the moons it had helped reveal from any chance of contamination.

We still miss it.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, SSI

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OCTARR co-founder @MathildaMilik: "Remarkable Beings. Our Invisible Roots." - her piece for DARArtNouveau presses algae she gathered across the Léon coast in northern Brittany onto our handmade paper (from a 350-year-old oak), beside the same shore's 1895 specimens once labelled "rejected by the sea." Algae, women, oak - three refusals, one sheet.

📍ArtOnPaper Brussels, Oct 2-4, booth H4.

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Hear Frederic in his own words: his full interview is out now. Interview link: https://t.co/VvwwSkvZTs

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"Cicuta Virosa": Frederic Gironde, OCTARR's #papermaker, is an artist too. His piece pins down water hemlock, one of Europe's deadliest plants, pressed and labelled like a botanist's specimen, on handmade paper he makes himself from Dara, our 350-year-old oak.🌳
📍#DARArtNouveau, ArtOnPaper Brussels, Oct 2-4, H4.

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"Cicuta Virosa" - Frédéric Gironde, the papermaker behind every piece in ou DARArtNouveau show, turns out to be an artist too. His piece is named after a real specimen of water hemlock, on his own exceptional handmade paper from Dara, our 350-year-old oak.
Watch his full interview:
📍 ArtOnPaper Brussels, Oct 2-4, Booth H4.

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"All that glitters…" - @RealNathanWaks collages #18k gold, vintage game tiles and gold leaf onto our handmade paper (from a 350-year-old oak)🌳, with his own original music. A meditation on impermanence, from 1637 tulip mania to today's bubbles.
📍 #DARArtNouveau, at #ArtOnPaperBrussels, Oct 2-4, Booth H4.

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Become a patron of a 350 year-old oak tree via stewardship tokens: https://t.co/bUpwX4wlcn

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"Herbarium of Gentle Resistance" - Harshit Agrawal @harshitrnnh redraws a 1669 defense map as today's AI data-center network, growing a wild flower across it as a counterweight. Cut into the flower's own leaf shape, on handmade paper from a 350-year-old oak.
Showing at ArtOnPaper Brussels, Oct 2-4, booth H4.

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@niceaunties New to DARA? Discover OCTARR's Living Heritage - a 350-year-old oak given new life through contemporary art: https://t.co/CTxuDrkdSK

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"Still Life, Auntie's Kitchen" @niceaunties turns an 1895 pressed flower into aunties who spin plates the way it spreads its stems. Indoors in an Art Nouveau tiled kitchen (monoprint), or outside under Saturn (edition) - both on our exceptional handmade paper, from a 350-year-old oak.🌳

📍DARArtNouveau, ArtOnPaper Brussels, Oct 2-4, Booth H4.

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Post-digital drawing: strips of OCTARR's oak paper, ink, wax, code and machine logic - each one auditioned before earning its place.
Miguel Ripoll, 20+ years pioneering algorithmic art, held in Design Museum Barcelona + exhibited at Reina Sofia.

Brushwood series, part of DARArtNouveau at ArtOnPaper Brussels, Oct 2-4, H4. https://t.co/yK4FMk6vUu

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@harto_fr https://t.co/q1CKJRLB59

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Watch it happen - the plotter drawing Harto's piece for DARArtNouveau, line by line, straight onto OCTARR's o.a.k. paper. Full piece at @artonpaperbrussels Oct 2-4.
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@harto_fr is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist who uses code, plotters and archival materials to explore how systems of mapping and classification transform the living world.

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@harto_fr @MathildaMilik @RealNathanWaks Check our Dara Project: https://t.co/gdTeDjPLsN

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A 350-year-old oak. A papermaker in Margaux. An 1895 Herbarium and 18th century maps of France. This October, OCTARR brings DARArtNouveau to ArtOnPaper Brussels - a booth built around one Remarkable Tree.
Booth H4, Oct 2-4, Tour & Taxis, Brussels.

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@harto_fr @MathildaMilik @RealNathanWaks Check ArtOnPaper her for more details: https://t.co/Hyw5cbOcp1

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DARA: a 350-year-old tree. DARArtNouveau: 18th-century maps, 19th-century botany, and today's tools, meeting on DARA's one-of-a-kind paper. OCTARR's Living Heritage begins here: ArtOnPaper Brussels, this October.

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@RealNathanWaks talks about his life as a cellist, Director of Music at ABC, and why he tokenised and fractionalised his 300 year-old cello https://t.co/mpbr3D7lKH
(Long form interview available on our YouTube channel)

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Limelight Magazine talks about our #culturalpatronage model with #fractionalisation on #blockchain of @RealNathanWaks 's half a million dollar #cello !

https://t.co/Zo5qUv2kWR

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The @violinchannel talks about us!
https://t.co/TJWmstjgTW