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Built by Stipinpixel in Tucumán, Argentina
SURI DIMENSION emerges from over thirteen years of archaeological and visual research on the iconographies of Northwest Argentina (NOA). It is, in essence, a design-based study of a region that holds extraordinary symbolic, archaeological, and geological richness, yet whose cultural traditions remain largely unexplored.
My first approaches began with clay, mud, and ceramics, then evolved into drawing, and today continue through pixel art used as a method of digital synthesis to develop cultural and heritage identity within video games.
Why art before the video game?
Because I see blockchain as a space to share my art (the art behind the game). If the art itself reaches many people first, then when the video game (still in development) is finally released, it will carry much deeper meaning and relevance.
🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
Who is Yukk?
Yukk is the main character. His name derives etymologically from the Quechua pronunciation of “Tucumán” (“Yukk-man”). Possessed by an ancestral mask, specifically a stone mask from the Tafí culture, he ventures to discover why he has arrived in this strange realm called SURI, stripped of all memory of the earthly world.
What is Suri?
In Tucumán and the surrounding region, the suri is a native bird that has existed since ancient times. Today it is endangered, with some carefully protected in reserves or cared for in remote mountain homes. Suris are gray, feathery beings that resemble balls of fur; in regional iconography they have often symbolized the wind or clouds, perhaps due to their formal likeness. My cat is also named Suri, because he too is a little gray ball of fur.
SURI DIMENSION is a place where archaeological elements, silent in the earthly world, are reactivated and alive, charged with magic. Through a contemporary visual language, I build new narratives that re-signify and transform local cultural heritage.
This is about exporting living culture sharing our archaeological and cultural memory through digital art, both respectfully and magically.
☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️
Wayra T’uru – Clay of Air
These are archaeological ceramics from Northwest Argentina, linked to the native Ciénaga and La Candelaria cultures. Some were originally ritual vessels.
In the SURI DIMENSION, they become living beings: floating forms reanimated by the magic of ancient wizards.
🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳
Wayra Wasi – Andean Sky Habitat
Floating houses made of grass balls and stones, like kokedamas suspended in the sky, inhabited by masked characters, ancestral magicians, and mystical explorers who traverse the city on suris. The architecture is built from vegetation, rocks, and hollow structures resembling cheese, interconnected like living organisms. Grass spheres cluster and expand like popcorn, echoing the spatial configurations of ancient Tafí dwellings.
Dance and Ritual at Night – Objkt (Dec 17, 2024)
Wayra Wasi (Andean Sky Habitat) – Mallow (Dec 31, 2024)
Magic to Have a Good Trip – Foundation (Jan 13, 2025)
🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃
Rumi Raymi – Stone Dance
A celebration of stone: in the SURI DIMENSION, sacred huacas from El Mollar and Tafí del Valle float in the limbo alongside Yukk, guardians, gatherers, and mystical shards. Here, tangible nature merges with the liminal. Archaeological findings are not static; they are reactivated with magic.
These transitional, spiritual spaces suggest a unique understanding of balance and the passage between states of existence. Rocks once used as sacred markers or sites of ritual are awakened through dances, ceremonies, and magical operations.
Creatures of Suri Dimension
My first PFP collection
100 unique 1/1 creatures living between sweet distortions, cosmic echoes, ancient roots, and digital spirits. From cat-like plants, viruses, and giggling slimes, each creature is part of the Suri Dimension.
These creatures are part of the story. In fact, they’re not meant to be captured, only sighted, though some might become your loyal friend, like #008 CAT-PLANT, who’s been inseparable from Yukk since they met.
✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
This exploration is supported by archaeologists specialized in the region’s iconography. I was awarded the First Prize for Innovation at the NOA Regional Visual Arts Award in Jujuy with the video game “Ritual de Arclla para llorar” It presented a mini-platformer playable from a lounge chair, in which Yukk had to traverse Wayra Wasi (Air Homes), collecting drops of water to save native trees of the NOA Yungas region.
Where to find my art:
🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿 Enjoy the adventure 🌿🌿🌿 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿
Built by Stipinpixel in Tucumán, Argentina
SURI DIMENSION emerges from over thirteen years of archaeological and visual research on the iconographies of Northwest Argentina (NOA). It is, in essence, a design-based study of a region that holds extraordinary symbolic, archaeological, and geological richness, yet whose cultural traditions remain largely unexplored.
My first approaches began with clay, mud, and ceramics, then evolved into drawing, and today continue through pixel art used as a method of digital synthesis to develop cultural and heritage identity within video games.
Why art before the video game?
Because I see blockchain as a space to share my art (the art behind the game). If the art itself reaches many people first, then when the video game (still in development) is finally released, it will carry much deeper meaning and relevance.
🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
Who is Yukk?
Yukk is the main character. His name derives etymologically from the Quechua pronunciation of “Tucumán” (“Yukk-man”). Possessed by an ancestral mask, specifically a stone mask from the Tafí culture, he ventures to discover why he has arrived in this strange realm called SURI, stripped of all memory of the earthly world.
What is Suri?
In Tucumán and the surrounding region, the suri is a native bird that has existed since ancient times. Today it is endangered, with some carefully protected in reserves or cared for in remote mountain homes. Suris are gray, feathery beings that resemble balls of fur; in regional iconography they have often symbolized the wind or clouds, perhaps due to their formal likeness. My cat is also named Suri, because he too is a little gray ball of fur.
SURI DIMENSION is a place where archaeological elements, silent in the earthly world, are reactivated and alive, charged with magic. Through a contemporary visual language, I build new narratives that re-signify and transform local cultural heritage.
This is about exporting living culture sharing our archaeological and cultural memory through digital art, both respectfully and magically.
☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️
Wayra T’uru – Clay of Air
These are archaeological ceramics from Northwest Argentina, linked to the native Ciénaga and La Candelaria cultures. Some were originally ritual vessels.
In the SURI DIMENSION, they become living beings: floating forms reanimated by the magic of ancient wizards.
🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳
Wayra Wasi – Andean Sky Habitat
Floating houses made of grass balls and stones, like kokedamas suspended in the sky, inhabited by masked characters, ancestral magicians, and mystical explorers who traverse the city on suris. The architecture is built from vegetation, rocks, and hollow structures resembling cheese, interconnected like living organisms. Grass spheres cluster and expand like popcorn, echoing the spatial configurations of ancient Tafí dwellings.
Dance and Ritual at Night – Objkt (Dec 17, 2024)
Wayra Wasi (Andean Sky Habitat) – Mallow (Dec 31, 2024)
Magic to Have a Good Trip – Foundation (Jan 13, 2025)
🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃
Rumi Raymi – Stone Dance
A celebration of stone: in the SURI DIMENSION, sacred huacas from El Mollar and Tafí del Valle float in the limbo alongside Yukk, guardians, gatherers, and mystical shards. Here, tangible nature merges with the liminal. Archaeological findings are not static; they are reactivated with magic.
These transitional, spiritual spaces suggest a unique understanding of balance and the passage between states of existence. Rocks once used as sacred markers or sites of ritual are awakened through dances, ceremonies, and magical operations.
Creatures of Suri Dimension
My first PFP collection
100 unique 1/1 creatures living between sweet distortions, cosmic echoes, ancient roots, and digital spirits. From cat-like plants, viruses, and giggling slimes, each creature is part of the Suri Dimension.
These creatures are part of the story. In fact, they’re not meant to be captured, only sighted, though some might become your loyal friend, like #008 CAT-PLANT, who’s been inseparable from Yukk since they met.
✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
This exploration is supported by archaeologists specialized in the region’s iconography. I was awarded the First Prize for Innovation at the NOA Regional Visual Arts Award in Jujuy with the video game “Ritual de Arclla para llorar” It presented a mini-platformer playable from a lounge chair, in which Yukk had to traverse Wayra Wasi (Air Homes), collecting drops of water to save native trees of the NOA Yungas region.
Where to find my art:
🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿 Enjoy the adventure 🌿🌿🌿 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿
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