"A knight's story" this creation was inspired by a fictional interpretation of the Nuremberg Armor from the Met public archive. The original piece is a German suit of armor made in Nuremberg around 1520, constructed from steel and leather. Its distinctive fluted surfaces reflect the transition from late Gothic armor toward the fuller forms associated with the Maximilian style. The video explores the stages of the armor as part of an environment that's left a trace in history, a strong way of understanding the journey both personally and in the context it was created in. The challenge was to communicate a specific feeling and to leave the viewer with a story they can complete; Really happy to participate in the #FloraMuseum Challenge, generating with Flora and sharing to everyone here on Contra, exploring the pieces from the MET museum was inspiring and even better digging deeper into the stories related to specific pieces;

If you want to see the canvas I worked on here it is: https://app.flora.ai/view/js77nwey12bfgav8ra0gcbqj2d8dqz98 Reference to the inspiration used: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/24807

Brilliant! The storytelling is beautiful too.

NAYMLAP: The Piercing Vision An entry for The Met x FLORA Museum Challenge

A thousand years ago, a Sicán ruler on Peru's north coast was buried wearing a mask of hammered gold and cinnabar red its winged eyes marked with the Sicán Deity's "piercing vision," believed to guide the dead into ancestorhood.

For this project, I reimagined that same mask as a piece of wearable fashion: sculptural gold sunglasses that carry over its exact material language — the hammered gold, the cinnabar and verdigris patina, the winged eye silhouette, and even its original gold danglers built for the living instead of the dead.

The full process is documented on FLORA: — Concept exploration (15+ directions branching off the original mask) — Symmetry and detail refinement — A custom studio environment ("the Gold Chamber") built entirely from the mask's own palette — A full campaign shoot inside that space

Original artwork reference: Lambayeque (Sicán) Funerary Mask, 900–1100 CE, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 1974.271.35. (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/309959 )

Full canvas: app.flora.ai/js78eg2ydn0xc0v57t7nmfn4j58dqek9