Trusting the Unseen:
Elements of the Infinite Garden
An Exhibition by the Devcon Scholars Program Artists and Writers Cohort
In the modern technological environment we inhabit, our lives are subtly guided by underlying systems and protocols that shape and sustain us, often without our full awareness. These invisible systems, whether digital, social, or biological, gently shape our thoughts, actions, and interactions. Much like the unseen roots of a tree spreading quietly underground, these networks provide steady support in ways we may rely on but don't fully perceive.
This exhibition, Trusting the Unseen: Elements of the Infinite Garden, invites us to explore and honor these subtle forces with humility and openness. As participants in the Ethereum ecosystem, we understand the protocols we build aren't meant to control, but rather are foundations that support connection, resilience, and creativity in deeply layered ways. Here, the Infinite Garden emerges as a vision of interconnected growth and infinite play, a space where natural and digital elements come together in quiet balance that invites ongoing exploration.
When we speak of the elements, we're often drawn to the classical archetypes: Air, Water, Fire, Earth, and Ether- our namesake and symbol of unseen connection. Ether represents the subtle space that links all things, embodying the intangible forces and dynamic interactions that shape both our physical and digital worlds. Each artwork in this exhibition, displayed throughout various spaces within the venue, explores these elements in their many forms—reflecting the quiet trust we place in these supportive systems and protocols, mirroring Ethereum's vision of the Infinite Garden.
As you journey through the exhibition, we encourage you to engage with each piece as an experience, allowing these elements to resonate within you. Approach them with a sense of openness, trusting your intuition on what they evoke for you and why. In this quiet trust, the Infinite Garden is more than a vision; it's a lived reality where growth unfolds with balance and grace. Together, let us celebrate this act of protocoling—of trusting in and engaging with the subtle forces that guide and nurture our collective experience.
Ethereum Foundation
The Ethereum Foundation Fellowship Program is an initiative to help address gaps in representation across cultures, nationalities, and economic classes. The Fellowship Program is about bridging these gaps by identifying and supporting unique and talented individuals helping to enable Ethereum’s relevance, and breaking down barriers to entry for those underrepresented people and communities who will become the future of Web3.
Artists
1. SOTOROJI by Ryuta Aoki
2. Contact by Inch Chua
3. études -inité by Wassim Z. Alsindi
4. Kabi Kimari by The Infinite Antropolis
5. Fungisync by Botao Amber Hu
6. Vignettes from an infinite teahouse by Shanhuan Manton
7. Poetic Cryptography: The Seed Phrase Verse by Fang Ting
8. Nine Tales from In-between by Dilara Savut
In the forces of nature, there is something special to humans.
Pushing and pulling us, entangled with us. Between the trees and winds, inside the waves of the sea, under the suns and stars, there is a sound that always wants people to wake up. Whispering loud,
“Wild children, I call upon you.”
It precedes all principles of order and entropy. It’s neither a god nor a maggot. Its desires define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers and phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.
The curiosity, Spirit of Techne.