Bay Backner

A year ago, Tempus Impromptu was reimagined in 3D by a Juek studio and brought to life in @decentraland . Today, I decided to revisit it. 🖤 I genuinely thought it might no longer exist there, but to my surprise, the world was still standing. The video installation no longer seems to trigger, but I could still walk around inside a place that began years ago with nothing more than my hands, paper and imagination. Three separate physical drawings, now in different parts of the world, became a single interconnected composition. From there, the work travelled through digital animation, augmented reality and eventually into a three-dimensional environment you could actually explore. And somehow, a year later, part of that journey is still alive. Tempus Impromptu has never found a collector. I don't sell a lot of my work. That's something I've learned to live with, even if it sometimes weighs on me. But walking through that world again reminded me that an artwork's journey isn't necessarily measured by how many times it changes hands. Sometimes it's about the places it reaches, the forms it takes and the little traces it leaves behind. I won't pretend I'm not proud of that. Maybe it's a small legacy, but it's mine. 🖤 If you'd like to wander through this strange little world yourself, you can still find it in Decentraland: 📍 Coordinates: -133, -82 And if the video doesn't play, at least you can still get lost in the scenery. 😂🫂 thank you @BayBackner