ALIENZ
Look a little closer.
The unknown
has a face.
Official records. Reported encounters.
A new way to see what remains unexplained.
Select a study
An ALIENZ interpretation.
An invitation to investigate.
Begin with
the record.
An encounter becomes a testimony.
A testimony becomes a document.
The questions remain.
Explore accounts preserved in official archives, with the source always within reach.
Explore selected recordsThumbnails are ALIENZ artwork. Official records preserve claims; they do not, by themselves, confirm extraterrestrial origin.
Different accounts.
Recurring forms.
Something familiar
in something unknown.
The unknown.
Made individual.
Genesis identities.
A finite first chapter.
From reported forms to illustrated identities.
The canonical ALIENZ collection, in its own visual language.
From the journal
Read the journal
The gendarmes went back the next morningA lavender farmer reported a craft and two figures in his field. What makes Valensole unusual is not the sighting. It is the paperwork that followed it.
The officer who found it still on the groundA New Mexico police officer reported an object on the ground and two figures beside it. The Air Force opened a file the same day.
Undeciphered
Something is counting. The notation is not ours, and it has not been read.
It is assumed to carry a date. Nothing has confirmed that either.
4 of 24 forms established
Get on the register before anyone can read thisBefore it opens
3,333 pieces,
in three tranches.
- 1,000
By invitation
A code and the mint amount, first come first served. A code that arrives after the last place is taken is not wasted: it enters the raffle instead.
- 2,222
By open raffle
Entry costs the full mint amount, and anyone not selected is refunded in full with no deadline. A draw only happens if more people enter than there are pieces.
- 111
Held back
For the archive and its collaborators.
Not open yet. Joining the register takes a signature, not a transaction, and costs no gas.
The illustration is the identity.
The archive is the beginning.
Look everywhere.
The questions cross borders.
So does the archive.
Illustrated map / Selected source countriesThe record exists.
The interpretation is yours.
Keep the source close.
Preserve the original record and its context. Let its provenance travel with the story.
Leave room for uncertainty.
Distinguish what was observed, what was reported, and what remains unknown.
Make the interpretation visible.
Give the account a visual language. Clearly identify where the art begins.