Welcome to Bryant Park (Before the Virus), a thematic collection of authenticated digital artworks on the blockchain.

This scene was captured during rush hour from a window on the 16th floor of an office building on the southern edge of Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan just a couple years ago.

I became inspired to transform this photographic panorama into my most recent Dreamscape a couple weeks after my county in the San Francisco Bay Area became one of the first in the nation to issue strict shelter in place orders in response to the coronavirus. Even that early during this public health crisis, a bustling scene like this already started to feel like a distant dream.

Bryant Park (Before the Virus) fuses computational photography and artificial intelligence; specifically, it consists of a 45-shot, 482+ megapixel HDR panorama I captured in October 2018 that was ‘interpreted’ by a proprietary enhanced version of Google’s “DeepDream” AI software in March 2020.