In-circle Series challenges participants to reflect on inclusivity and accessibility on the internet. The work houses two interactive websites built on smart contracts which run on the Ethereum Blockchain. It combines features of internet interaction, blockchain technology, and creative writing to expand and reshape our understanding of the artist’s identity. 

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The first website uses blockchain to democratically and permanently record individual artist identities digitally without proof from a third party. The goal is to explore how blockchain’s utopian decentralization aligns with the goal of democratization of art in order to create an inclusive online space where everyone is an artist. Simultaneously, it reflects on the extent and validity of such artistic freedom achieved through the seemingly equal power structure within technology. It inadvertently raises questions about privilege and technological literacy.

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The second website invites users to collectively define an artist's identity. It creates a real-time manifesto of the public artist while also poetically liberating the artist’s identity through their contribution. The creative writing portion draws inspirations from Alison Knowles’ House of Dust (1966), a computer-generated poem. It serves as a complement to the first by offering an inclusive view that engages with artists' identities in an open. It focuses on the blockchain's feature of permanence to document the audience’s definitions of an artist literally. By leveraging the constraints and features of the Internet and blockchain, the artwork series calls to action in our ongoing efforts to achieve a more inclusive and equitable society in the digital era.