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Daniel Greenwood

Daniel Greenwood approaches imagined worlds through a background in landscape photography, compositing and teaching. Metalands extends that concern with constructed landscape into the BrainDrops catalogue.

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Metalands
Official example from Metalands. Artwork © Daniel Greenwood.

Photography and the imagined view

In a 2019 Mimeo Photos interview, Greenwood describes being drawn to photography by the camera’s capacity to reveal things beyond ordinary vision, including the night sky. The account combines demanding outdoor work with an interest in ideas that arrive away from the camera. It also discusses developing an individual style despite criticism. This provides a useful pre-AI context: the image has long been both an encounter with a place and a deliberately shaped visual result. [1]

Teaching the constructed landscape

Greenwood’s official site presents prints, workshops and tutorials. A composite-photography blending tutorial makes the role of assembly explicit: a landscape image can involve selecting and joining material, rather than merely recording a single exposure. That teaching practice matters when approaching Metalands because it establishes a prior concern with the construction of convincing spaces. It does not establish that particular photographs were training data or inputs for the BrainDrops series. [2][3]

Metalands and places beyond a visit

Released on 29 April 2023, Metalands presents imagined landscapes rather than a catalogue of locations a viewer could simply travel to and verify. The continuity with Greenwood’s photographic practice lies in the organisation of an encounter: scale, atmosphere and a sense of place remain meaningful even when the place itself is invented. BD5D treats that continuity as interpretation. The official release is the source for the series, while the earlier interview and teaching materials establish the broader photographic context. [4]

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Collectors and attribution

Each series dossier links to the sampled wallets that hold it. A wallet holding the collective project All AI Art Looks The Same is not automatically counted as holding work by every participant. Token-level artist attributes are needed to make that more specific claim.

Artist names here are public release credits. Aliases and collaborations are resolved only where the credited record supports the relationship.

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Sources

  1. Mimeo Photos — Daniel Greenwood interviewArtist, collaborator or presenting organisation · accessed 2026-10-13

    Career or process evidence; release-specific claims are cited separately.

  2. Daniel Greenwood — photography portfolioArtist, collaborator or presenting organisation · accessed 2026-10-13

    Career or process evidence; release-specific claims are cited separately.

  3. Daniel Greenwood — tutorialsArtist, collaborator or presenting organisation · accessed 2026-10-13

    Career or process evidence; release-specific claims are cited separately.

  4. Metalands — official release recordPlatform / primary · accessed 2026-10-13

    Official credit, description, launch date and reported supply; not an independent mint audit.

  5. BD5D collector ownership evidenceRead-only chain audit · accessed 2026-10-13

    balanceOf, tokenOfOwnerByIndex and ownerOf at one block for 52 selected wallets.

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