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For 10 days we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of Sunset. You can now travel to San Bavòn on Anchurian Air for 10 US Dollars through Itch.io and Steam. Vacuum cleaners and fighter jets are waiting for you.

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“Generato non creato” is Auriea and Michael’s first collaborative art work since a few years and Michael’s first NFT-project. The work is inspired by historical ornamentation and specifically by the beautiful monstrances that contain the Blessed Sacrament during Eucharistic Adoration in Rome’s many churches. It is a homage to Saint Pope John Paul II who had a deep devotion to the Eucharist even when he suffered badly from severe Parkinson’s disease at the end of his life. The title of the work comes from the Nicene Creed of which fragments are displayed in the background. It refers to the son being generated from the father, not created like the rest of us.

This project is part of the digital section of Cure³ at Bonhams, curated by Alex Estorick and Foteini Valeonti of reGEN.

Mint opens on 3 February at 11 pm CET.

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The fifth beta version of The Endless Forest remake is now available to backers and supporters. 🌳🍄🦌 If you didn't receive an email with a download link, please let us know.

Read about it on the development blog.

Happy All Hallows' Eve! Blessed All Saints' Day! Soothing All Souls' Day! See you in the Forest!

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Step 26 of remaking of The Endless Forest focuses on controls and looks. Read about it here.

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The beta 4 client of The Endless Forest remake is available to backers.

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The Viriditas Chapel of Perpetual Adoration will be projected on a wall in the Poortersloge in Bruges as of Saturday evening at 7 pm when the exhibition "Simulacrum" opens for which my dear old friend Yves Gabriëls has selected Auriea and myself, Lena Daems & Frederik van Remoortere, Koosje Schmeddes & Dirk Schellekens, Laura Maes and Artiste Inconnu to show our work next to his until 29 October.

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The third beta version of the remake of The Endless Forest has just been released. 🍄🦌🌳🦌🌲🦌🍄

An email with a download link has been sent to all backers.

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Viriditas on Steam

The Viriditas Chapel of Perpetual Adoration is now available on Steam.

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🌳The 🦌 Endless 🍄 Forest🌳 remake 🚧 inches closer to completion 🏁 with a new beta version ✌️. Backers 🥇of the project have received a download link 🔗. Thank you 🙏 for the support. 🎄Merry Christmas!🎄

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The Viriditas Chapel of Perpetual Adoration is a virtual reality by Michael Samyn inspired by Hildegard von Bingen and released on the feast of Saint John Paul II 2022. Download the program for free from cathedral-in-the-clouds.net/viriditas

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The Viriditas Chapel of Perpetual Adoration

Coming soon, the first chapel of Cathedral-in-the-Clouds: The Viriditas Chapel of Perpetual Adoration, a VR experience inspired by the visions and music of Hildegard von Bingen, whose feast it is today.

Hildegard von Bingen was an 12th century abbess in the valley of the Rhine in present day Germany. She was a mystic, a scientist, a composer and a writer. In 2012 she was declared Doctor of the Church, among luminaries such as Theresa of Avila, Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo. Viriditas is a guiding concept in her thinking. It expresses the vital power of nature, specifically of plants. Within this context, she imagined Jesus Christ to be a flower that blooms on the branch that is the Holy Virgin. It is this idea, combined with her vision of the cosmos in an eternal embrace of the divine, that inspired the Viriditas Chapel.

O greenest branch whose breath inspires the wonder of saints. Hail! When you bloom in your branches the heat of the sun flows from you like ointment. In you a beautiful flower blossomed whose fragrance awakened all that was withered. And all emerged in full vigor!

The Viriditas Chapel of Perpetual Adoration will be released free of charge as a Virtual Reality application for the Windows OS. In it you approach the altar of the chapel reverently and kneel down to meditate assisted by the heavenly sounds of Hildegard's musical poem O viridissima virga. After these five spectacular minutes you remain in silent adoration of The Most Holy Eucharist for as long as you please.

The Viriditas Chapel of Perpetual Adoration will be published as part of FoAM's Anarchive, a collection of artifacts that looks at the multi-decade existence of FoAM, a transdisciplinary organisation founded by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney, who became patrons of the chapel during the crowdsourcing campaign for Cathedral-in-the-Clouds.

Cathedral-in-the-Clouds is an umbrella project for the creation of contemplative art inspired by Christian narratives and iconography in the context of contemporary culture. The digital cathedral is being built piece by piece by artists Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn, formerly Tale of Tales, now Song of Songs.

://cathedral-in-the-clouds.net/viriditas Art by Michael Samyn Music by Hildegard von Bingen Voices by Stevie Wishart and Synfonie Patrons are Maja Kuzmanovic & Nik Gaffney Fascicle No019 of FoAM Anarchive Published by Liminous Editions Release planned for Michaelmas

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The first beta version of the remake of The Endless Forest is now available to backers of the project. You can read a summary of the entire project on the development log.

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The Endless Forest II alpha 3

We have released another alpha build of the remake of The Endless Forest in Unreal Engine. Backers of the project have received a download link.

You can read more about the release here.

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The Endless Forest Second Decade: Alpha 2 released!

A new alpha version of the Unreal Engine remake of The Endless Forest is now available for backers and supporters. You can read about it here.

Backers should receive an email message with a download link. If you haven't, please let us know.

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Against all odds and Big Tech's dedication to the destruction of culture, we have managed to save our touch screen apps (for now): Luxuria Superbia, Vanitas and The Graveyard are now available in 64 bit on Google Play.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=8536517990300588176

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You can now marvel at the world of Compassie in your browser! Cathedral-in-the-Clouds.net/Compassie/sphere

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Compassie, our pietà in virtual reality, is now available from Cathedral-in-the-Clouds.net/Compassie