“Sometimes I Sing Back“ begins minting on December 13th at 9am PT / 11am CT / 12pm ET / 5pm CET on Highlight.

Adam Genlight translates code into inventive, interactive artwork focused on fostering wonder.

Now, after almost a year of pruning, refining, and gardening, he’s set to release an expansive new generative series titled Sometimes I Sing Back.

An open edition of responsive, generative, infinitely composable flowers that respond to user inputs, he sees the work as his own creative manifestation that “sings back” graphically based on the container (or window) it’s in, and the pixels fed into it.

Launching December 13, each artwork features a central flower with endless possible petal and color configurations. Fully responsive across devices, the flowers bloom anew based on screen dimensions while users directly embellish pieces by toggling shading or scatter brushes.

Some outputs contain rare traits like watercolor stylings, pollen, or spiderwebs for collectors to discover. And every output incorporates signature elements derived from token ID and mint iteration data, documenting provenance.

In preparing the work, Genlight leaned into tight creative constraints—generating intricate complexity from straightforward generative rules. Inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts, art and thinking from Mathcastles’ creator 113, and teachings from data visualization pioneer Edward Tufte, the algorithmic petals emerge from two connected Bézier curves filled with controlled randomness.

The work is the result of a year-long meditation to find his creative spark, after “becoming unhappy with nearly everything I made. Eventually I stepped away from abstract art and spent a week making digital flowers.”

Through this meditative period, Genlight reflected on art’s essential ability to ground us in greater realities and our place within natural systems. As both an artist and innovator seeding new visual spaces, his responsive flowers slowly evolved to become an extension of his prior work.

“In previous collections, I explored oral storytelling, one of humanity’s oldest artforms. The beauty of it is that every telling is a slightly different variation on the one before, but always maintaining the same underlying structure. It reminded me of generative systems in code. With Sometimes I Sing Back, the same might be said of each flower. Nature reminds us of both the uniqueness of each creation and the infinite possibility of its underlying system. But nature is alive, and responsive. Although nature is often out of our control, our joy is in how we observe and interact with it.”

More specifically, Sometimes I Sing Back includes controls for the viewer to engage with. Click the canvas and press 'a' to download an image; 'b' to add your own shading via mouse drag; 'c' to add seeds via mouse drag. Feed it pixels and watch your flower change and “sing” back to you.

Speaking of interactivity, Genlight explains how this theme emerges across his practice:

“In some ways, my work has followed an ever increasing spectrum of aliveness. Folded Faces had a tiny heartbeat through pareidolia. A Fundamental Dispute’s collective reroll mechanism—to this day—breathes change into the collection. And A Daydream for Libby had a warp functionality that enabled the creation of infinite stories.”

“With this next release I wanted to push further into aliveness. With complete and always-on responsiveness and blockchain data. Your flower grows and changes with every pixel you feed it,” he continues.

Tend to Sometimes I Sing Back starting December 13th at 9am PT / 11am CT / 12pm ET / 5pm CET on Highlight.

“Flowers are for everyone,” says Adam, and so the mint is priced  at 0.004 Eth (~$8) with payment via ETH on Base or credit card.

The mint will be open for 7 days.