The collection, Growing Within The Flame, explores the philosophical concept of recognizing blockchain technology as a gift of fire to the world. Nazarov visualizes blockchain solutions as a new flame that will influence the next chapter of human development. A single spark that forced the darkness into retreat and propelled us into the stars has brought society to where we find ourselves today. Humanity once looked to the sky for their future but now this new technology has brought that promise of answers in the stars into our hands. Nazarov explores the implications of the technology as it moves from hand to permeate the mind and soul, forever changing what it means to be human.  

Nazarov is proud to be collaborating with Epik to showcase this collection at Dcentral Miami for Art Basel Week 2021.

Nazarov: Growing Within The Flame

Scaling is a special edition NFT creation by Nazarov that is paired with the physical work titled: <a href="https://www.vladimirnazarov.com/the-faithful-feed-the-flames" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Faithful Feed the Flame </a> – 96”H x 72”W, Acrylic on Canvas. The two works were created in tandem and are sold in tandem, as a representation of the continuity between physical and digital existence.
 
 In Scaling, Nazarov explores the parallels of the adoption of blockchain technology to the human experience of adapting to change. Each external and internal stimuli is a challenge, lesson, and gift in our development. For Nazarov, life is a work in progress. Each day, there is a degree of growth that occurs to meet the needs of survival. Nazarov questions if we can ever reach a stage of completion for a predetermined goal and that perhaps the journey is the goal, if the journey is the goal, then our experience of scaling is not a means to an end, but the inevitable result of life itself. For Nazarov, being ready means we are never finished growing, we are always scaling.
 
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In Before Your Eyes, Nazarov explores a latent power, full of potential, exploding from the background in a game of taking chances and chasing regret.
 
 For the artist, every life-defining chance is already in front of us at any given moment.
 
 While regrets may be a lesson, to obsess over them is to create a barrier that shields us from our next chance. Which leads to the flashing panels as ghosts of opportunities missed, taunting, and to be chased forever instead of intuitive clues for opportunity present to be captured and explored on the journey.
 
 For Nazarov, opportunity is attracted to those that make themselves attractive to it, those who open themselves freely to its potential. Nazarov invites the viewer to open, enhance their perception, confront a wall and within it, see a door.

Nazarov envisions our most precious commodity, time, as freed from its own shackles. The piece takes the form of a conquered clock, with the viewer in command of the arrows of time. Nazarov invites the viewer to seize hold of this resource, both free and priceless, to decide if they shall run time or allow time to run them.

Voyagers shifting from one plane to another dance across the screen. Inspired by the work of poet Walt Whitman, To Seek and Find The Untold Want explores the human hunger to achieve desires beyond the depths of our knowledge and perception. Nazarov ponders the effects of ever-evolving technological advancements on the human physical, spiritual and emotional experience along this voyage. What pieces of ourselves shall we discover and leave behind in a realm of coded infinity.

Nazarov: Growing Within The Flame

Epik

Scaling

Before Your Eyes

We Are Beyond Time

To Seek and Find The Untold Want