Metawave
Generative Art Project

Metawave

Bugs

Metawave explores the emotional life of images through generative art. Bugs turns the lens toward the small lives in the garden — ultra-realistic macro portraits of insects rendered as if captured by a high-end camera.

Each piece is algorithmically generated from a unique seed and trait configuration.

Generation 019 · Bugs

Bugs

Bugs is a collection about the worlds we step over every day without seeing.

Each image is an ultra-realistic macro portrait of a garden insect: ladybirds on the curve of a leaf, bees dusted in pollen, dragonflies catching the light above water, ants climbing bark, butterflies feeding on wildflower heads. The style is photographic, not illustrative — shallow depth of field, creamy bokeh, microtextures in chitin, fur and wing membranes, natural reflections in compound eyes.

The aim is not to turn insects into characters, but to let them be exactly what they are — precise, intricate, alive — and to present them with the same care and dignity usually reserved for large animals or human subjects.

Concept

Bugs asks what happens when generative systems are pointed at realism instead of fantasy.

The collection uses traits to define a photographic setup rather than a painted scene: species, environment, time of day, lighting, pose, focus, surface detail and optical behaviour. Each token becomes a specification for a macro photograph — what insect is present, where it is resting or feeding, how the light is falling, which part of the body is in focus, whether dew, pollen or dust is visible.

The prompts enforce strict anatomical correctness: the right number of legs, properly segmented limbs, accurate antennae, realistic wing count, and plausible mouths and eyes for each species. No surreal hybrids, no melted anatomy. The insects remain true to their biology, and the art lies in how the lens meets the moment: the angle, the blur, the glint of light on the eye.

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Other Collections

Generation 027
Released

Glitch

Glitch #9
Glitch #71
Glitch #34
Glitch #35

Glitch is a chronicle of generative destruction — a moment where order dissolves and creation is forced to rewrite itself.
Each image captures the instant a system breaks open, revealing the raw mechanics of collapse: torn planes, corrupted colour,
fractured geometry and unstable architectures dragged through the turbulence of a failing render.

This is not destruction as decay, but destruction as generation: new forms born through rupture, error and computational stress.
Glitch is the story of a machine unmaking itself — and in doing so, discovering unexpected beauty in the wreckage.

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Generation 035
Released

Remanence

Remanence #6
Remanence #11
Remanence #4
Remanence #13

Remanence is a study of the human face recorded as light over time.

Each work depicts a recognisably human facial form rendered as a sparse spatial point cloud and subjected to long‑exposure spectral recording. Motion across the exposure produces temporal echoes — red‑shift and blue‑shift afterimages that reveal the face at different moments in time.

These are not portraits. They are residual impressions: what remains of form once time, movement, and wavelength have been allowed to interfere.

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Generation 013
Released

Katheros

Katheros #11
Katheros #35
Katheros #51
Katheros #30

Katheros is a generative fine-art collection of ink-based geometric compositions — pure lines, sacred shapes and interference patterns rendered with mathematical clarity and quiet aesthetic restraint.

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Generation 028
Released

Chairs

Chairs #95
Chairs #44
Chairs #97
Chairs #17

Chairs is a study in sculptural absurdity: a museum-grade exploration of chairs that push beyond functional design into expressive, impractical, and architecturally playful form.

Each work is a hyper‑photorealistic portrait of a chair behaving more like a sculpture: a seat that bends too far, loops into itself, contradicts its own engineering, or performs gestures no practical furniture would ever attempt.

The result is a collection where fine‑art photography meets conceptual design, blurring the boundary between object, artwork, and architectural experiment.

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Generation 031
Released

Caustic

Caustic #25
Caustic #68
Caustic #41
Caustic #62

Caustic is a study in purity under assault. Minimal geometric forms — circles, squares, bars, planes — placed against soft neutral fields. Perfect shapes eroded by chemical light, corroded edges, pigment burn, structural decay, and caustic dissolution.

Every token is a meditation on tension: order versus breakdown, geometry versus entropy, serenity versus corrosion. A single shape becomes a battlefield for chemical destruction.

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Generation 037
Released

Icon

Icon #16
Icon #1
Icon #9
Icon #5

Icon is a body of work about symbols — how colour and form can carry meaning without words.

Each piece feels like a sign encountered rather than explained: bold shapes held in balance, strong colours standing with confidence, moments that register instantly and remain quietly present.

Across the collection, love appears sparingly, like a signal sent with intention — changing the feeling of the image without overwhelming it.

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Generation 021
Released

Dust

Dust #5
Dust #38
Dust #62
Dust #68

Dust is a study in chalk, pigment and breath — abstract forms arranged like quiet mathematics.

Circles, lines and woven geometries drift across soft paper textures, fading at the edges as if they were drawn and erased a hundred times before settling into their final shape. Some pieces feel like blueprints, others like constellations or half-remembered maps, but all of them carry the same powdered calm: the hush of chalk hanging in the air.

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Generation 029
Released

Trace

Trace #74
Trace #3
Trace #57
Trace #34

Trace is a study of perception — a hybrid visual language where photographic fragments become architectural diagrams, and linework reveals the hidden structure inside the world.

Each artwork begins with real photographs: textures, objects, architectural details, or natural fragments. These images are arranged as intentional collages — quiet, asymmetric, evocative. Over them, precise linework unfolds: topographic contours, orthographic projections, and geometric extrapolations that reinterpret the photograph’s form.

Trace sits between blueprint and sketchbook, between fine-art print and architectural analysis. It is a dialogue between what is seen and what is understood.

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Generation 014
Released

Punk AI

Punk AI #29
Punk AI #59
Punk AI #67
Punk AI #25

Punk AI is a generative collection of rebellious machine-made abstractions: glitch, noise and digital interference rendered with a fine-art sensibility.

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Generation 008
Released

Savanna Spirit

Savanna Spirit #62
Savanna Spirit #58
Savanna Spirit #54
Savanna Spirit #51

Savanna Spirit is a generative fine‑art NFT collection celebrating the nobility and power of African wildlife through cubist geometry, sun‑baked colour and cinematic composition. A tribute to the living kingdoms of the savanna — lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras and more — rendered in fractured planes, bold contours and heat‑haze atmosphere.

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Generation 003
Released

Woman in Vogue

Woman in Vogue #84
Woman in Vogue #36
Woman in Vogue #73
Woman in Vogue #23

Woman in Vogue is a 222-piece generative fashion-portrait collection reimagining the feminine figure as an abstract editorial icon — bold colour fields, flowing linework and pure silhouette without logos or branding.

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Generation 033
Released

Impact

Impact #5
Impact #10
Impact #6
Impact #16

Impact is a study of matter at the instant it admits force.

Rubber, water, and gelatinous surfaces are observed at the precise moment where pressure overwhelms stability — where form stretches, thins, collapses, or ruptures. These are not depictions of destruction, but of transition: the fraction of a second where material reveals its limits.

Each work freezes a single moment of deformation, rendered with studio restraint and scientific calm. No before. No after. Only the instant where order gives way to chaos.

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