Project · Nifty Gateway Studio · August 2025
The Garden of Other Worldly Delights
A unique digital triptych after Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1500), produced over four years and presented with Nifty Gateway Studio in August 2025, together with seven editioned works and an open edition of Sin Tokens.
The triptych
The work follows the three-part structure of Bosch’s painting: paradise at left, the garden at center, hell at right. Other World retains the landscape and its fantastical architecture and replaces Bosch’s figures with Fiends, the hooded characters that recur throughout his practice. At left, a robed figure joins the hands of two Fiends in the place Bosch gave to the presentation of Eve to Adam. At center, a procession of riders circles a pool while crowds occupy the lawn below. At right, a city burns above a field of oversized instruments.
The composition contains several hundred individual scenes, most of them legible only at close range. The file preserved on chain measures 25,000 by 14,231 pixels and can be viewed on this page at full resolution. Its accompanying text reads: “Are you in control? Tend to your garden.”
Background
Other World began the triptych roughly four years before its release and developed it alongside his other projects; he has described the process as a “crushing yet extremely rewarding journey.” It is his largest single composition to date. The Seven Deadly Sins provide its organizing subject, carried from the triptych into the editions and tokens issued with it.
The Judgment
Collectors entered the project through a stage the artist called the Judgment. Each participant answered a sequence of narrative prompts and was judged by the King of Nothing, a central character of the work who appears in the middle panel of the triptych. The King assigned each participant one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and a Sin Token was issued for that sin. The seven editioned works were then offered through ranked auctions, one for each sin.
Sin Tokens
The Sin Tokens form an open edition, the first in Other World’s practice; 514 were issued. Each takes the form of a coin bearing a scene for its sin, the legend His Throne Knows All, and an inscription specific to the sin.
The Seven Deadly Sins
Seven works accompany the triptych, one for each sin, each issued in an edition of 20.
Variants
The works within each edition are not identical. Each edition is divided into variants in which a second sin modifies the composition, altering the sky, the palette and certain figures. Forty-six variants were issued across the seven editions. They are grouped below by sin.