Speculative Perspective (2024 new series), Financial newspaper 3D printed PLA and acrylic on board Dutch Golden Age’s Tulipmania, the birth of modern capitalism and 1st recorded speculative bubble was an alluring collision of desire and the dream of immense wealth. My series, “Speculative Perspectives,” delve’s into the rhyming histories of economic excess and collapse that have reverberated through centuries, meditating on deep surreal patterns about human nature. The original watercolors used by 17th-century speculators have been reimagined through 3D printing, a tech considered to be a pillar of the 4th Industrial Revolution, transforming them into digital tulips that stand against the backdrop of the Financial Times stock listings. These digital tulips are more than echoes of economic history, they reflect on a philosophical notion of a digital Eden—a promised Utopian datascape where nature and artifice converge to fulfill humanity’s yearning for paradise, a vision transformed by...