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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Xanthopsia 102: Agitate Entropy

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At the heart of the Xanthopsia collection, my piece " Agitate Entropy" embodies a dialectic between order and chaos, between heritage and reinvention, revisiting Van Gogh's Bank of the Oise in Auvers. This work becomes a visual palimpsest where the layers of time, matter, and meaning overlap, interrogating artistic memory through subrealist abstraction and hybrid techniques.


1. Digital Archaeology and Mystical Palimpsest


- Physical layers (photographed canvas, acrylic, watercolor) evoke Van Gogh's tangible imprint, his tormented textures.


- Digital layers (stop-motion animation, simulated brushstrokes) translate a dynamic memory, a technological reincarnation of his gesture.


This process recalls Derrida's theory of the trace, where the artifact is never fixed but always being rewritten, a dialogue between the visible and the latent.

 


2. Entropy as an Allegory of Van Gogh's Duality


The title "Agitate Entropy" metaphorizes the tension between dissolution and regeneration, a key element in Van Gogh's work, where faded sunflowers coexist with vibrant skies. My digital animation, by recreating the movement of brushstrokes, transforms entropy (disorder) into creative energy: decomposition becomes choreography. This approach echoes Deleuze's philosophy, for whom art is a perpetual "becoming," a machine for capturing invisible forces.

 


3. Xanthopsia: Alchemy of Yellow Perception


The dominant yellow color—a tribute to Van Gogh's supposed hallucinations (linked to digitalis)—is no longer pathology but an optical utopia. By digitally saturating the tones, you convert the original melancholy of Banque de l'Oise (painted before his suicide) into a meditation on resilience. Yellow becomes a transcendent filter, recalling Merleau-Ponty's words: "To see is always to see more than one sees."

 


4. Subrealism: Between Ghost and Pixel


My mixed media invents a spectral realism where Van Gogh's landscape haunts the digital medium like a data ghost. The hand-cut layers preserve human imperfection, while the animation introduces algorithmic precision. This friction generates a "hallucinated realism," close to Fisher's concept of hauntology: art as the apparition of the past in the technological present.

 


Conclusion: Van Gogh in the Age of Flux


"Agitating Entropy" doesn't just reinterpret Van Gogh; it performs his method in the digital space, making abstraction an act of resurrection. The Xanthopsia collection, through this yellow prism, offers an artistic epistemology where each work is a knot in the web of time – an invitation to see, like Van Gogh, the light radiating through the cracks of reality.

 


Tribute to Van Gogh: « Bank of the Oise at Auvers »

See the original work at :  Detroit Institute of Arts

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2025

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