The Way of Flowers

„As a kid, I fever-dreamed too often. I wasn't in my bed but underground, dark, warm, damp, my limbs unraveling into a long, tangle of strings growing through a tunnel made of humming light. I could taste the hum of the cartoons with my fingers; it tasted like putting your tongue on a sour battery.
CROSSLUCID had made my dream literal—or perhaps I never woke. The Way of Flowers sprawls before me like a hallucination of late capitalism finally eating its own tail, birthing something beautiful and monstrous: a garden where generative code photosynthesizes and collective devotion blossoms into literal biomes.“

Part of the exhibition text „We are the soil for what comes next“ by Chen Qiufan
Read the full text of here oder listen to the reading by Penny Oxi Peng 

CROSSLUCID
Blooming Screen_1, 2025
Custom LED Screen, with blockchain integration
60 × 60 cm

Link to the The Way of Flowers DApp

The Way of Flowers offers a fundamental reinterpretation of ecological art by creating a living connection between generative hybrid plant-beings and real-world ecosystem regeneration projects.
Collectors become art seed stewards acquiring blockchain-registered digital seed organisms that transform through biodiversity protection actions.

Through our bespoke Morphological Art Engine, each biodiversity conservation contribution triggers a beautiful metamorphosis—root structures shift, branching patterns emerge, and coloration evolves based on authentic conservation data—creating living artworks that visually embody the ecological projects they support and are shaped by collective participation.

These living digital botanicals fund actual biodiversity protection projects spanning six global bioregions from California vineyards to Colombian cloud forests and Brazilian wetlands to Caribbean coastal restoration.The biodiversity initiatives are verified through partnerships with organizations such as Regen Network and project selection is curated by ArtEcology, a global regenerative design studio.


This innovative approach reveals how Protocol Art becomes both a catalyst for environmental regeneration, creating a meaningful bridge between world building and real-world impact through communal engagement, ultimately embodying the principle that the model is the message.