Treeskulltown

France

Treeskulltown is the conceptual avatar of a French multidisciplinary artist. For the last 4 years, he has been working in the field of digital art. Having grown up in the 80s, the emergence and development of computer technologies and techniques resonated with him and fuelled his curiosity. With 20 years of experimentation and hybridisation between physical and digital art under his belt, his work today is as much a personal quest as an artistic one. When he became a father, a need for simplicity and freedom, combined with the constraints of mobility, led him to return to the source of the desire to create and the pleasure of doing so, using organic materials (earth, paper, paint, cardboard, wood, etc.). It's a way of rediscovering meaning by naturally reconnecting with feelings and emotions. His aim is to develop a temporal parallel, a conversation, with the masters of classical art, to create a sub-reality to art history using mixed media animation techniques, thus creating an analogue palimpsest in digital strata.

Very involved in the crypto-artist community, his works are collected in Ethereum on FOUNDATION, in Tezos on OBJKT and in Bitcoin on GAMMA. Since 2022, his work has been exhibited and presented internationally at major events such as Art Crush Gallery, MOWNA, NFT NYC, NFT Japan, DAM Zine, NFC Lisbon, NFT Factory Paris, R HAUS Art Basel Miami, QUANTA Gallery London, IHAM NFT Gallery Paris. He was also selected in 2024 in The Hug 100 artists to watch and in the N3W Society Bookzine with the web3 agency: BRAWHAUS. His continual quest to reinvent himself and experiment provokes an emotional interaction with the viewer while guiding them with a subtle and conceptualised narrative.


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An Outstretched Hand Is Priceless: Xanthopsia 152

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1. A Subrealist and Unconventional Reinterpretation of Van Gogh


The work "A Outstretched Hand Is Priceless" revisits Van Gogh's Two Hands through a subrealist abstraction, combining acrylic paint on canvas, photography, and minimalist digital animation. This technical hybridization embodies a contemporary approach to reappropriation, where the original pictorial gesture (the texture of Van Gogh's hands, a symbol of labor and humanity) is transfigured into a digital allegory. Subrealism, as an artistic language, allows us to go beyond realism while retaining a raw emotional charge, similar to Abstract Expressionism in motion.


2. Philosophy of Abstraction as an Act of Resistance


The title, borrowing a popular expression, transforms the work into a manifesto on invaluable solidarity. In a context where abstract art is often rendered invisible by algorithms (see Invisible Sunflowers of 2025), this piece becomes a metaphor for the persistence of the artistic gesture despite digital erasure. The "outstretched hand" symbolizes:


- Mutual aid (human solidarity in the face of socio-cultural crises),


- Transmission (dialogue between Van Gogh and digital subcultures),


- Resilience (art surviving through hybrid reinterpretation).


3. Physical-Digital Hybridization and Digital Subcultures


The use of mixed media (photographed acrylic + stop-motion animation) reflects an aesthetic of fragmentation and regeneration, specific to contemporary digital experiences:


- The acrylic paint preserves organic materiality, evoking imperfection and the human trace.


- The minimal animation introduces a digital temporality, like a hand that persists through digital flows (social networks, metaverse).


- Intermediate photography freezes the process, highlighting the coexistence of states (finite/infinite, tangible/virtual).


This approach is reminiscent of hybrid subcultures (glitch art, post-internet art) where the work is no longer a static object, but a mutating phenomenon, like memes or NFTs that reinvent themselves through collective reappropriation.


4. Xanthopsia: Utopia of Altered Perception


"Yellow vision" (xanthopsia, a disorder in which everything appears tinged with gold) becomes a metaphor for the ability to see light in the darkness—a nod to Van Gogh's palette and his quest for beauty in suffering. Here, yellow symbolizes:


- Hope (the outstretched hand as a glimmer of light in the era of digital isolation),


- Distortion (the contemporary artist fighting against algorithmic standardization),


- Hybridization (the fusion of techniques as creative survival).

Conclusion: A Manifesto for Hybrid Art


"An Outstretched Hand Has No Price" embodies the essence of Xanthopsia: a collection where the persistence of art lies in its ability to fragment, reinvent itself, and coexist in multiple realities. By blending Van Gogh with digital subcultures, the work offers an archaeology of the future—where each reinterpretation is an act of survival, and each outstretched hand, a bridge between eras.


(Further reading: Comparison with Picasso's Hand Paintings in a war context; connection with care in contemporary art.)


Tribute to Van Gogh: «Two hands »

Original at : private collection

2160 x 3840 px / 4k MP4 / 115 Mo / 16 frames at 8 fps / 1/1 édition

On @objktcom :
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1SPfxmyYFdQtFdc8cr9o1Mgkc6RU3LBKHP/156

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2025

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