what's Ripe?

Ripe is an independent conceptual artist whose practice treats blockchain infrastructure as artistic material rather than mere storage or distribution. At the core is "onchain optimism," the belief that shared systems like Ethereum produce outcomes exceeding individual capabilities. Notable projects include LESS, which explores compression mechanics with burn-triggered mint windows; Here, For Now, visualizing wallet presence via ETH deposits in a shared space; Liquidity Layer, where trading activity redraws the artwork through subtractive blending; and others like (distributed) and np1 that repurpose network states, transactions, and token burns into generative compositions. To Be a Machine (TBAM) exemplifies this approach as a networked generative NFT collection on Ethereum. Each token instantiates a machine with fixed DNA set at mint, generating evolving visual expressions every block (~12 seconds) using block data for variations within constrained palettes and patterns. Collectors settle one frame permanently onchain, collapsing infinite potential into a fixed image, which triggers 69-minute mint windows for new tokens, 24-hour open editions of that frame, and base price increases—deriving scarcity dynamically from participation rather than arbitrary caps.