Caleb Ogg’s work plays with geometry and scale to create mesmerizing generative visual art. While each piece is a still image, the colors and shapes used create a sense of movement and depth. His use of bold yet familiar color palettes makes each piece feel approachable despite being extremely intricate. 

Caleb has enjoyed drawing since he was a child. He gravitated towards abstract geometric art as a teenager, feeling drawn to the precision of this style. He began using drafting tools to develop more intricate works, rather than drawing freehand. 

Caleb’s first foray into generative art was back in 2011, well before the advent of NFTs. He was creating a piece on canvas and wanted to randomize the color palette. He ended up rolling a dice to select the shades for each geometrical section. 

Several years later, Caleb began looking for a tool that would help him achieve a higher level of precision and efficiency in the creative process. He initially used Adobe Illustrator to create digital art, but quickly progressed to a tool called Processing, a free, open-sourced, code-based program.

Using Processing, Caleb created generative art pieces in his signature geometric style. He’s now been creating generative art consistently for over five years. 

Caleb has an engineering background and has worked in construction and temperature control. His generative art was initially a way to decompress after working a highly physical full-time job each day. Caleb slowly began sharing his work on social media. The work was so well-received he has since transitioned to a full-time art career. 

Since that leap, he’s jumped into the deep-end of NFT creation. Initially, he focused on revisiting work he’d already created and moving it to the blockchain. As he explored the medium further, he began creating new collections. 

In early 2022, Caleb began working on his most ambitious project to date: Coalesce.This is a collection of generative scripts made entirely of circles. Eeach piece in the collection contains roughly 500,000 circles. The final pieces in the collection will contain over 1 million circles. Other collections include Marbled, which is based on Perlin gradient noise, and Micro Mondrian, which took inspiration from the iconic Cubist works of Piet Mondrian. 

Caleb currently lives in Denver, Colorado. He spends most days working in his studio. Outside of his art practice, he enjoys exploring the outdoors, cooking, and weightlifting. As for the future for Caleb? One day he hopes to launch a design house where artists could bring digital creations into the physical world. Sign us up.

In his debut Wild collection, Machines, Caleb Ogg takes his signature style of geometric art to the next level with interactive viewer experiences. Not only will collectors be able to manipulate each piece directly, but they will also have the ability to view each layer in these intricate works to see exactly how the piece came together. 

Caleb has been creating geometric art for more than 15 years, and his passion for generative art began at a young age. “I used to draw a lot in class when I should have been listening.”

Machines builds on concepts that Caleb has explored throughout his career. He began using coding techniques in his work in 2018, but this is the first time that his work will be generated live at the time of mint. Machines was originally inspired by the concept of circle packing, which is the process of arranging circles across a given surface without any overlap. Caleb initially created a set of works exploring this concept in 2021 and was motivated to explore this process further, thus Machines was born.

Caleb began by exploring the relationships between circles and how they would visually connect and interact. These circles eventually began to resemble mechanical systems like engines and conveyor belts. The natural kinetic energy in these forms inspired Caleb to animate the pieces in Machines. 

“I like to think my work reflects a thorough examination of the parameter space and an attention to detail,” Caleb says. “Machines is the culmination of months of work and combines some of my favorite concepts I’ve worked with over the past year.” It’s easy to get lost in the rich detail of Machines, which features both realistic images of gears, conveyor belts, and other mechanical components as well as abstract images, emblazened, of course, in Caleb’s signature bold color palattes. 

Each piece in Machines is animated using a p5js script and has a unique color palette, animation speed, number of components, and scale of each component. Each of the wheels, gears, and other components comes in a variety of different styles as well. 

Due to the extremely detailed nature of Caleb’s work, even the smallest adjustments result in dramatic changes to the overall composition. For example, adjusting the wheel sizes changes the number of components that fit into each piece, which then changes the scale of the piece. After acquiring the piece, collectors will be able to digitally manipulate the artwork on their own, zooming, rotating, and translating the piece to explore it from different angles and see all of the intricate details. 

Collectors will also be able to take digital snapshots of the piece as they manipulate it, providing a way to find their own creativity within the piece and essentially create new works. The ability to view all of the layers within the piece also gives collectors a behind-the-scenes look at Caleb’s creative process and the level of detail that goes into the work. 

Caleb is based in Denver, Colorado. Outside of his artwork, he enjoys hiking, snowboarding, and mountain biking. Just like the pieces themselves, Caleb’s daily creative routine is calm and methodical. Before starting work each day, he takes time to tidy his space and set up music for the day, whether that’s on Spotify or on his vintage radio. He cycled through a variety of different genres while creating Machines, ranging from classical and jazz music to electronic, hip-hop, and classic rock. Coffee and tea breaks paired with plenty of walking helped keep the creative process feeling fresh.

With Machines, Caleb continues to push the boundaries of his signature geometric art style. Moving forward as a full-time artist, he plans to further explore coding, animation, and generative art practices. In addition to supporting his work, Machines collectors will be placed on an allow list for future projects.