Earth According To Mermaids (3D Interactive Art Activism)
The works glowed against the walls: maps melted into oceans, borders dissolved into smoke, coastlines reimagined as scars, teeth, circuitry. It was a whole room of rebuttals to the old rectangle.
Earth According To Mermaids is a 3D interactive work of art and literature that tells a story that is best experienced through its native dynamic and easy-to-navigate immersive 3D reading experience.
Poetry
An Artist's Commentary On Whitewashing and Gerrymandering in America
Humans: They had been lied to by rectangles.
In hotel lobbies, embassy corridors, cruise-ship lounges, high-floor boardrooms with bottled water and books—everywhere the world appeared, the lie arrived pre-approved, framed, and flattened.
Earth According To Mermaids is a 3D interactive work of art and literature that tells a story that is best experienced through its native dynamic and easy-to-navigate immersive 3D reading experience.
Post-photography from the world of mermaids
A micro-collection of reactive works—each one a portal, each one answering touch, time, and presence
The Luminthrae
(loo-MIN-thray)
A rare pelagic species native to the deep twilight waters of CERYS. Neither fish nor familiar mammal—something older, quieter. Known to accompany mermaids during moments of transition: exile, awakening, return.
They are said to feel emotion as pressure changes and respond by altering the shape of their fins.
Digital artworks from the world of CERYS, a mermaid story about memory, movement, and what survives beneath the surface.
These beings are not characters in a plot. They are witnesses. They appear alongside mermaids during moments of change—migration, separation, return. Their forms suggest motion without urgency, attention without demand.
About the Works
These pieces are presented as interactive digital artworks, created for on-chain exhibition and collection via Transient Labs. Interaction is intentionally restrained: subtle shifts in motion, light, and atmosphere respond to presence over time.
The works are designed to feel alive but not performative—closer to encountering something than viewing it
Orynne
A companion known for proximity.
Orynne swims alongside rather than ahead, adapting its movement to whatever travels beside it. No two depictions are ever exactly alike.
In the world of CERYS, Orynne is associated with learning, trust, and shared passage.
CERYS is an ongoing mermaid world exploring themes of transformation, attention, and ecological memory. The Quiet Companions exist within that world, but do not explain it. Like the sea itself, they offer form without instruction.
Some encounters are brief. Others linger. If this work has stayed with you—if it feels familiar, or quietly unresolved—this is where you can choose to continue that relationship. Collecting the piece places it into your care onchain, where it can be revisited, lived with, and allowed to unfold over time, without urgency or explanation.
The CERYS companions are offered as limited interactive digital artworks on Transient Labs, each one a quiet, living fragment of this underwater world that only fully exists once it’s in a collector’s care. If one of these beings already feels like it recognizes you, trust that. Add it to your collection and let it swim on-chain with you, resurfacing whenever you’re ready to step back into CERYS.