Star Seed 6/10

ROHAN WEALLEANS 

Star Seed 6/10 with signed certificate of authenticity

paint on object

130 mm diameter

$480 inc gst 

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Rohan Wealleans invites us into a world where paint transcends its traditional role, becoming something entirely new. Each Star Seed is meticulously crafted from layers of acrylic paint, every one bearing its own specimen number.

These are not merely artworks; they are artefacts of transformation — the cultivated yield of Wealleans’ long-term practice, a process he describes as paint farming. Over 25 years, this practice has evolved into a unique system of creation, in which paint itself becomes both medium and subject.

Each Star Seed is composed of these carefully nurtured paint cones, manifesting in diverse sizes and colours. Their rounded forms suggest potential — the possibility of growth or metamorphosis. Yet their purpose remains open-ended. What might they become? Would combining a blue seed with a yellow one yield a green seed? Are these seeds ideas? Relics of transformation awaiting activation?

Like the imaginative worlds of Pokémon or Masters of the Universe, Star Seed Farm is an open system — a world without fixed boundaries, its meaning shaped by those who engage with it. Wealleans offers no definitive purpose for the Star Seeds; instead, he invites each viewer to decide. If a seed speaks to you, its meaning becomes yours to define. In this way, the Star Seeds are invitations — to wonder, to question, and to cultivate your own interpretations.

As Wealleans explains:

“I’ve always been fascinated by how franchises like Pokémon and Masters of the Universe create expansive worlds where everything is interconnected and open to reinvention. The Star Seeds are a way into this kind of worldbuilding — farmed objects that might be the beginning, or the centre, of any number of possible worlds and stories.”

Star Seed Farm explores systems of transformation, possibility, and classification. Each Star Seed belongs to a science-like collection — open to mixing, categorisation, and reinterpretation. Like Pokémon, Pandora bracelets, or interior design combinations, they exist in a space of potential, waiting for meaning to be assigned.