No Faith Visuals / Federico Salvador works along the subtle border between beauty and obscurity. Using photo manipulation he hides what is usually a beautiful subject behind curtains of grunge, yet delicate patterns and textures. As to remind that beauty is not always obvious yet present.

Dear nofaith was the first life.anchors reached out to explore the options for collaboration. He gave us confidence we could activate our community.

His photo manipulation emphasizes the connection between artist and audience using his typical mixed media overpaint style.

Wioulet is a talented and high-paced digital artist working on and with experimental dark photography. She originates from Iran and often uses her art to express activism and discomfort with the system.

Life.anchors was approached by Wioulet in May 2022 to create a collaborative work for Friday 13th fear4tez. It was a huge success and we sold out on 13 copies. Of course, Wioulet had to join The Audience is Present for a co-creation as well!

Wioulet remixed our setup and inserted connected and interacting skeletons. This emphasizes the connection to be forever, even after passing away. Wioulet created another remix of the original with Jeremiah. Jeremiah floats in the air while keeping intimate eye contact.

Wioulet is a talented and high-paced digital artist working on and with experimental dark photography. She originates from Iran and often uses her art to express activism and discomfort with the system.

Life.anchors was approached by Wioulet in May 2022 to create a collaborative work for friday 13th fear4tez. It was a huge success and we sold out on 13 copies. Of course, Wioulet had to join The Audience is Present for a co-creation as well!

Wioulet remixed our setup and inserted connected and interacting skeletons. This emphasizes the connection to be forever, even after passing away. Wioulet created another remix of the original with Jeremiah. Jeremiah floats in the air while keeping intimate eye contact.

The Audience Is Present challenges the viewer by showing an uncomfortable contrast between pride and modesty while also showing the acceptance of the opposites from both parties.

NFT & blockchain make this connection permanent. From locking eyes in The Artist is Present to a complete artist/audience merge with a cryptographic lock in royalties and ownership on the blockchain. Forever connected.

Roman Drits is a photography based artist who mainly works in a monochrome, dark setting. His photographs and manipulations reflect on the world as a gloomy but magic place. Roman earned lots of respect in the Tezos ecosystem and is a much-collected artist.

Life.anchors is a big fan and frequent collector of Roman’s works and was very thrilled and excited Roman agreed to participate.

Roman decided to manipulate the life.anchors originals together with AI until the result resonated with him and the narrative of The Audience is Present. The result is a beautiful animated alienating dark setting which sold out within an hour!

Daniel Rojatz, known as rmtrl is in search of the real that was lost in between the original and its countless iterations. His works are overpaintings based on photography and found objects. 

As life.anchors is interested in experimental photography, it was inevitable the works of rmtrl enter the collection of life.anchors. It was a logical move to ask rmtrl to collaborate on The Audience is Present.

The life.anchors original vintage photograph has been iterated multiple times by rmtrl to create its new form. A unique multi-layered overpaint creates a new experience.

Experienced photographer from Italy. His longer-running projects are minted as NFTs and Logu does not fear digital experiments.

Life.anchors collected some great works from his ‘behind the diaphragm’ series and got into contact. We shared ideas on ways for digital glitching and remained in contact.

What a cool idea it was to ask Logu to glitch a work from our series, and so he did. The result is a strong glitch created with Audicity and multilayer interaction. LGBTQIA+ is made part of the TIFF code and forever etched into the image.

The Audience Is Present challenges the viewer by showing an uncomfortable contrast between pride and modesty while also showing the acceptance of the opposites from both parties.

NFT & blockchain make this connection permanent. From locking eyes in The Artist is Present to a complete artist/audience merge with a cryptographic lock in royalties and ownership on the blockchain. Forever connected.

Elizabedsh is a woman without a past and future. She has no colour and shows no gender. She has no location, yet she lives everywhere. She is a woman who doesn’t exist.

As soon as life.anchors found her self-portrait photo manipulations, he was hooked. Since then life.anchors and Elizabedsh have had this special relation of mutual trust and respect.

The work of Elizabedsh addresses the oppression of individuals apparent everywhere. Her contribution to The Audience is Present is therefore spot on, with a dark and confronting self-portrait in her typical style.

Dreamer is a photography artist who knows how to capture pure emotions. Dreamer is finally living her dreams.

It was just before the summer that life.anchors became a fan and collected a whole series of Dreamer’s work. That’s when our warm relationship got started. 

Knowing that Dreamer addresses the subject of LGBTQIA+ in her work made it logical to reach out for a collab. Dreamer shared one of her most vulnerable works for the collection, the work made on the emotional relief after coming out.

p.i.x.e.l.l.a.r.e.™ loves abstractions, colors, words, concepts, visual design, hack/remix sounds. He often creates explorative works that require the interaction and attention of the viewer to get the message.

p.i.x.e.l.l.a.r.e.™ reached out to life.anchors as he watched the collection and its impact grow. He had an idea on what to do with the work and so we got started.

He created an overall animated experience expressing the non-action in the actor’s and Abramović’ presentations by the application of pixels.

Mouzenn is a well-respected visual artist working a lot with experimental and dark photography. He recently worked on animated photography combined with calligraphy and textures.

These works really caught my eye, as life.anchors was already a long-term collector of Mouzenn. 

Mouzenn selected two originals and created a beautifully textured animation in black and white with a calligraphic component of which I only captured the ♡ so far. See for yourself and be amazed.

Ermac is an amazing photoshop artist who currently seems to reside in Iran. I bumped into him as he did some crazy reworks on photography.

It seemed logical to reach out to him to join us in our mission for inclusivity. If I had known he was in Iran at that moment, I probably thought twice. But I found out only later.

How cool it was to find that Ermac actually created some of the most outspoken inclusive works to date in the series! It is extremely cool if you find out after the fact that there seems to be a perfect fit.

Given all the controversy in the region, it is extremely valuable to me Ermac contributed in this expressive way. Sending all his love despite the real danger.

Ariel is a Brazilian artist with endless energy. His creativity does not end with photography, it goes all directions and disciplines. Meanwhile, he seems to be able to organize a lot for his fellow artists and country,
I became a fan of Ariel while collecting experimental photography and flirts with technology. It felt natural to invite him for the series of The Audience is Present.

He did an amazing job again. Combined one of our originals with a spot-on video. Minimal manipulation with maximum effect. That’s how I love Arriel.