MAUER

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall finally fell. It was a moment that continues to echo through history. In 2022, this turning point was reimagined in the Metaverse. Sixty years after the Wall was built, MAUER emerged as a digital art project honoring the extraordinary stories of a divided world; stories that remain deeply relevant today. Five artists were invited to generate a digital Berlin Wall made up of 10,316 unique art pieces, one for each day the Wall stood. I was honored to be one of the five artists selected to take part in this project.

After designing 20 original CGI artworks in C4D and Octane, using motion capture to craft a range of poses across a defined set of characters, I created each composition as both a high-rarity edition and a functional blueprint. From this foundation, I built a modular system that established key visual parameters across foreground, midground, and background layers. As part of the process, I developed an extensive library of standalone assets, including character poses, Berlin Wall variations, and custom environments. Using an exclusion algorithm, the team at Mauer generated more than 2,000 unique outputs from these components. This remains the largest generative series I led prior to the rise of AI-based creation tools.

The collection sold out and built a strong international community. Half of all proceeds were donated to refugee support organizations, reinforcing the project's human-centered mission. While the NFT market downturn impacted its final phase and the founding company later dissolved, the work stands as a meaningful example of large-scale digital storytelling and creative collaboration.