Heteronímia

“How many people am I?”, asked Fernando Pessoa in The Book of Disquiet. “I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tambours I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony,” wrote the celebrated Portuguese poet, who created more than 70 complex personae, dividing all his humanness among various authors. This orchestra of “selfs” is what drives Projeto Ruído’s drop – whose name literally means “Noise Project”. They work with a seemingly disorganised, somewhat discomforting visual universe, which at the same time is intentionally structured to generate reflection. They call this series Heteronymia, which is the study of heteronyms, that is, of fictitious authors who possess personality. This NFT series is a jigsaw puzzle of “selfs” created out of 36 cubes that can generate hundreds of different compositions, or faces, of the same man. The result is a visual, and unique, symphony.