The Parody of a Tangled Thread - Across a Field of Ice
Summer Wagner
“I was introduced to Summer’s work by Funghibull and I immediately knew it was something special. I was lucky enough to meet her in person at NFT NYC 2022 and soon after I acquired two pieces from her collection, The Pardoy of a Tangled Thread. It was such a compelling work with so many threads that I was inspired to build a website to help me (and others) to explore the masterpiece she had created.”
Chikai Ohazama
Other collected works
The Parody of a Tangled Thread - A Prayer for Mother Pylon
Story of “The Biography of an Untangled Thread”
I was so inspired by "The Parody of a Tangled Thread" by Summer Wagner that I built a website in homage to her extraordinary collection.
It is meant to help you discover all of the intricate threads in her work.
When Funghibull tagged me to look at Summer's collection, I knew it was special but it was hard to pick which one I wanted. I had the great fortune of meeting Summer at NFT NYC.
After meeting Summer, I knew I wanted one of her pieces, so when I got back home I spent time with her collection and put in a bid on one. It seems like many others had the exact same idea and so by the next day there were 11 bids on her work and I had been outbid!
I put in a bid on another piece, got outbid again. I tried to win the two auctions I had started but Artifaction wanted it more and so I lost both of those auctions. So what do I do? I started to look through her collection again and discovered something truly amazing. I looked at them a bit deeper and started to notice all of these connections, all of these threads that she had spun throughout the collection. I found one of these hidden threads and bid on two new pieces, two I don't think you would've noticed at first glance.
And this is why I built the website in homage of @bugindreamland's collection. I wanted to help people discover all of these intricate threads. I did a play on the words in her title and called the site: "The Biography of an Untangled Thread".
I pulled the data for the entire collection using the OpenSea API and then went through, piece by piece, manually tagging every element I noticed. I tagged whether it was night or day, number of people, ghosts, water, phones, lights, every little detail I could find. And then I built a whole UI so that you could filter the collection using these tags and when you start turning on/off these tags, you start seeing all of these threads. It's truly amazing what Summer has created and it's not something you notice at first glance.
My hope is that this site will help people take a deeper dive into her collection. I hope it helps her current collectors truly appreciate what they have. And I hope it inspires new collectors to buy the remaining pieces or to make secondary offers.
It is very rare when an artwork inspires me enough to build something in homage. Summer’s collection is one of those rare masterpieces and I hope this site inspires you sit with her work for hours on end.