We had the pleasure of celebrating Lumen Prize Award Winning Artist Dr Libby Heaney at AllBright, London.

Libby designed a bespoke napkin for each guest to keep which was photographed at the end of the meal and uploaded to the guests AirWallet as an NFT the following day.

Fahad Karim was a finalist for the 2023 Lumen Prize for Pohualli.

Inspired by Aztec mythological motifs and the rich cultural history of Mexico, Pohualli is an ongoing series of live code-generated images. Organised across three themes—nature, motivations, and entities—the work shape shifts over time, revealing itself as a timelapse of morphing creatures and visions.

The generative nature of the project meditates on the passing of time and the slippery interplay between past and future. The title itself is a reference to the Nahuatl vigesimal counting system, inside which pohualli is a base unit. Pohualli #31 (age 2140days) (birthday 2017)—characterised by geometric imagery layered, collage-like, atop an oceanic navy backdrop—represents a small blip in the map of this generative world. Drawing a welcome connection to the idea of Oceanic Feeling—a psychic state in which the sense of self is annihilated in favour of a collective consciousness—the work is a poetic meditation on the nonlinear capacities of storytelling as a cultural carrier bag for generations and worlds to come.