A 45-piece volumetric portrait series

VEXA

The Complete Language of Energy

Energy does not disappear. It transforms.

Grieving Weight Liberation

A note from SHILLS To everyone who has stopped to look, who has shared this work, felt something in it, or simply stayed for a moment longer than they needed to. You are not just a viewer. You are the reason this exists. The energy you give back: presence, kindness, connection. I carry that out into the world and give everything I can to others. You fuel that. More than you know. People you will never meet have been reached because you showed up here. That is not small. That is everything. That is Energy.
And what do we say? Energy always finds its people. Thank you.
— SHILLS

New to this?

Everything you need to know,
before you look.

01 What is digital art?

Art made with software instead of a paintbrush

Digital art uses computers, cameras, and software as the creative tool. The result can be displayed on screens, printed at any scale, or exist as a unique file. It is as real as any canvas; the medium is simply different.

02 What is AI doing here?

AI was trained on the artist's own layered smoke work, not text prompts

VEXA pieces begin as real smoke compositions layered by hand in Adobe. That work was used to train an AI model, which then acts as a collaborator: transforming the smoke into portraits under the artist's direction. The AI did not create these. It was taught to see through them.

03 How does ownership work?

45 pieces. Some are one of a kind. Some are limited editions.

Each VEXA piece is either a 1 of 1 (the only version that exists) or a signed limited edition (a small, fixed number of prints). Both are permanent. Both are collectible. Every piece is recorded on the blockchain so ownership is always verifiable, and no additional copies can ever be created after the edition closes.

04 Why Lisbon?

The NFC Summit is where art and technology meet

The NFC Lisbon Summit brings together artists, collectors, and technologists at the frontier of digital culture. VEXA debuts here because it belongs at that intersection; this is not art about technology. It is art that technology made possible.

The Work

Energy does not disappear.
It transforms.

VEXA is a volumetric smoke portrait series that gives form to what most art leaves invisible: the interior life of energy itself. Each piece is built from hand-made smoke compositions used to train AI and generate exquisite pieces, transformed through a rigorous visual process that preserves the character of the original material while revealing the emotional architecture beneath.

Five thousand years of energy measurement data inform the series. The work is not symbolic. It is structural. VEXA speaks in the language that energy has always spoken, and asks the viewer to listen with their body before their mind.

Digital Pieces

Cycles

Years of Data

The Question She Holds

Humanity.
Artificial Intelligence.
Who tips the scale?

VEXA does not answer. She measures.

Blue Eyes Emerging

VEXA Layer I

The Equations of Energy

The Three Cycles

Every portrait belongs to a movement.

Grieving

Energy contracting inward. The portrait of loss as a physical event. What is held when letting go is impossible. Smoke folding on itself in the dark.

Pieces 01 to 15

Weight

The suspension between states. Energy neither arriving nor departing. The portrait of burden as a form of resistance. Smoke holding its shape against gravity.

Pieces 16 to 30

III

Liberation

Energy finding its people. The portrait of release as structural truth. What happens when the weight no longer requires holding. Smoke becoming atmosphere.

Pieces 31 to 45

Selected Works