For his latest NFT series Walled Garden (2025), supported by FakeWhale, Jan Robert Leegte created a enclosed wild garden, a sanctuary which we can look at and be looked at from, even own, but not enter. For inquries and availability click here.

Walled Garden is a 20-meter-diameter digital garden. A lush, natural scene with trees, grasses, and overgrowth, encircled by a high wall. Wind animates the foliage. The sun moves through the day, the moon at night and at the garden’s centre in the grass lies a sculptural scrollbar, equal parts modern relic and digital readymade. Surrounding this secluded world are 150 openings punctured randomly into the wall at varying heights.

Each NFT in the collection corresponds to one of these vantage points, each a fixed framed view into the interior garden. Here, sharing the experience of the same central procedural perspective creates a unique output rather than variation. These windows are not only visual compositions but also social interfaces: when hovering with the mouse, the collector’s name or wallet address appears in the windows on the opposite side, turning the experience into a subtle network of presence and observation.

The architecture of the garden recalls Herman de Vries’ Sanctuary (1997)), in which the GUI becomes the wall to an online peep show. This aspect also brings in Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés, peeping at an online wild garden in all its beauty, only to become aware of all the others looking back.

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