Meet DeltaSauce
DeltaSauce describes himself as a curator of nostalgia and a liminalism artist, identities that have shaped the core of his practice from the beginning. When asked how those ideas first took form, he explains that he is “an artist, using AI to explore the fringes of memories, and the moments they capture.” For him, every collection is a narrative, a channel for intent and emotion. “These ideas all take shape within a story I want to tell. Each collection has a narrative, and intent behind what I want to share with the world. For me art is meant to stir discussion, that is where the beauty of making art and being an artist comes from.”
That narrative impulse can be traced all the way back to his father’s woodworking shop, where he first learned the value of making with one’s hands. The influence of craft still sits at the center of his digital process today. “I look at AI as a tool, a part of the process, and by working hands-on post-projection, I am giving a bit of myself back into the artwork. With these new tools, we can explore and carve away at the spaces they provide, thus bringing humanity to artificiality.”
Limitless Possibility
AI, for DeltaSauce, is a sandbox with limitless possibility. When asked how he maintains a distinct artistic voice amidst such infinite space, he points to play as his compass. “For me navigation comes from play, as does most creativity. I enjoy the prospect of being an explorer within latent space. This space is boundless, infinite in a way that we have never seen before.” Yet even in that vastness, he always returns to memory: “I tie back all my work, the meaning and intent behind it back to this idea of past memories, of capturing a feeling or setting the tone of a body of work based on what I’ve experienced growing up.”
This pull toward memory is also what draws viewers into the quiet, still, dreamlike environments that define his work. He explains that much of this comes from a lifelong sense of observing rather than participating. “I am drawn to the fact that most of my life I’ve felt like a spectator, someone on the outside looking in. For me these moments are meant to encapsulate that feeling, to let the viewer step into that role. The camera is never facing me, but facing the experiences I’ve had.”
Hands-on with the Machine
Balancing traditional craft and new technology is an essential tension within his practice. When asked how he preserves reverence for traditional art while experimenting with AI, he returns once again to his childhood. “For me the balance of working with the machine, and being hands on is just that, a balance. It’s a give and take relationship… When my dad would give me scraps of wood to build with. The same could be said with AI, it gives me pieces to build upon, to carve away and add to. I feel like a forager, exploring the spaces that exist in these models, picking up pieces to build into something new.”
Color Calibration
His newest project, Color Calibration, brings a dedicated color study to Bitcoin, tracing the evolution of computers through five distinct palettes. The inspiration is deeply personal. “For this collection, I was inspired by the innovation of the computer over the decades. The computer and chair have always felt like a home for me, a place to explore the digital highways, and now I get to explore the latent spaces that were built on top of these highways.”
He recalls his first computer with vivid clarity: “I remember getting my first computer in the early 00’s and it being a gateway, and how it opened up the world to me. Thus by exploring this relationship between the pc and the chair, it feels like a symbiotic relationship.”
Building the palettes became a way to trace the lineage of digital history itself. “Exploration into color has always been something I’ve wanted to do, but I wanted to do it in a way that symbolizes a meaning. Each color is meant to represent a specific lineage of the evolution of the computer… each color is meant to represent a part of the evolution.”
His research deepened into early internet history: “Each color represents a specific era in the innovation of technology, from the early age of black and white monitors, to the era of green computer text on a black screen, to the blues of the early 1990s windows XP. Each color represents a growth in the technology that we use on a daily basis.”
A Nod to Culture
Choosing to inscribe Color Calibration on Bitcoin was a philosophical decision. DeltaSauce has long been drawn to the permanence and ethos of ordinals. “At an early age, we were told that once something is online that it would exist forever. This is no longer true… By anchoring this color study to BTC, it will outlast me and the majority of the internet as a whole.”
Cultural references are also foundational to the project, reflected through choices like a 144-piece total supply (the average number of Bitcoin blocks produced per day) and an edition size of 21 in one of the sets. “By adding in these nods to the ecosystem I am immersing myself and my body of work in, I am anchoring to our reality of things. I often refer to my whole body of work as being set in my universe of things, and that universe is adjacent to the one we exist in.”
A Final Hint
As for what’s next, DeltaSauce leaves a final hint for collectors:
“With regards to Color Calibration, we have something planned for those who do complete a full color set by December 8th, 2025!”
