Artists Isa Kost and oculardelusion are pleased to announce VIVO DESIDERIO, a new collection celebrating the ecstasy and agony of romantic passion.

VIVO DESIDERIO – which means “living desire” in Italian – expresses the vibrance, magic, physicality, and ever-changing emotions we experience when falling in love.

Isa Kost (Italy) & oculardelusion (US/UK) met as members of the DADA collective, and in May and June 2023 spent weeks together mounting an exhibition at MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan. During that time, the two artists collaborated intensively on an art installation for the exhibition – and discovered that their skills, interests, and styles complemented each other beautifully.

“We’re both inspired by organic forms, and both have an emotive, whimsical quality to our work. Isa’s style tends to be precise and thoughtfully composed, while my approach is more free-form and intuitive,” says oculardelusion. “Together, we are able to create work that’s true to each of us as individuals while being completely unique from what we’d create on our own.”

After weeks working in Milan, they retreated to oculardelusion’s home in coastal Norfolk, England, to recover. They walked the beaches, gathering shells and digging for cockles, and found themselves having long discussions about the nature of love and desire. Meanwhile, they carried on making art daily. Thus was born VIVO DESIDERIO  – a celebration of romantic passion that combines Isa’s precise and whimsical anatomical drawings with oculardelusion’s psychedelic expressionism and poetry.

The initial nine animated** VIVO DESIDERIO** artworks will be available as 1/1 editions from 14 November, on MakersPlace.

After this launch, the artists plan to continue releasing unique generative artworks from the VIVO DESIDERIO collection. Collectors of the initial 1/1s will be given preferential access to these near-future mints.

“We love that the artwork has the capacity to generate more than 300 million unique iterations. If we were to output one piece a day, it would cover more than 821,917 years… in other words, into eternity,” says oculardelusion. “Each experience of love is unique, yet love itself is infinite and eternal. We look forward to Vivo Desiderio unfolding into the future, long beyond our own lifetimes – sort of a message in a bottle sent out from our lives today.”