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Sarah Meyohas — Cloud of Petals Interactive VR Experience #4
Sarah Meyohas

Cloud of Petals Interactive VR Experience #4

2017

A luminous collision of labor, data, and femininity, Cloud of Petals stands as one of the defining works of Sarah Meyohas's practice and a landmark in the history of performance-based digital art. Created in 2017, the piece originated in a live performance at Bell Works in New Jersey, where one hundred AT&T factory workers stripped petals from ten thousand roses while Meyohas observed from above. Every gesture was captured, catalogued, and translated into data points that now animate this immersive virtual reality environment, transforming an act of tender, repetitive human effort into an infinite cascade of swirling color and motion. The work sits at an intersection rarely occupied so gracefully, drawing equally from minimalist performance traditions, feminist conceptual art, and the emerging language of blockchain and digital asset culture. This particular file, designated as Interactive VR Experience number 4, is signed by the artist and offered directly through Meyohas, lending it clear provenance within a body of work that has attracted serious institutional and collector attention since its debut. As a digital medium, it invites the collector to reconsider what ownership of an experience means, a question that feels increasingly urgent in contemporary art markets. The piece is not a passive image but an environment one enters, and that distinction carries real weight both conceptually and in terms of long-term value. Collectors of historically significant digital and new media work will recognize Cloud of Petals as an early and sophisticated meditation on what has since become one of the most contested territories in contemporary culture, the question of who controls data, labor, and the poetics that emerge from both.

Medium
Digital Virtual Reality File
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Yes

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Sarah Meyohas, Cloud of Petals Interactive VR Experience #4, 2017

A luminous collision of labor, data, and femininity, Cloud of Petals stands as one of the defining works of Sarah Meyohas's practice and a landmark in the history of performance-based digital art. Created in 2017, the piece originated in a live performance at Bell Works in New Jersey, where one hundred AT&T factory workers stripped petals from ten thousand roses while Meyohas observed from above. Every gesture was captured, catalogued, and translated into data points that now animate this immersive virtual reality environment, transforming an act of tender, repetitive human effort into an infinite cascade of swirling color and motion. The work sits at an intersection rarely occupied so gracefully, drawing equally from minimalist performance traditions, feminist conceptual art, and the emerging language of blockchain and digital asset culture. This particular file, designated as Interactive VR Experience number 4, is signed by the artist and offered directly through Meyohas, lending it clear provenance within a body of work that has attracted serious institutional and collector attention since its debut. As a digital medium, it invites the collector to reconsider what ownership of an experience means, a question that feels increasingly urgent in contemporary art markets. The piece is not a passive image but an environment one enters, and that distinction carries real weight both conceptually and in terms of long-term value. Collectors of historically significant digital and new media work will recognize Cloud of Petals as an early and sophisticated meditation on what has since become one of the most contested territories in contemporary culture, the question of who controls data, labor, and the poetics that emerge from both.

Medium
Digital Virtual Reality File
Year
2017
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
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