Light and Relic

13/04/2026

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22/03/2026

Ira Foil Poster✨🔮

09/02/2026

The brand is more than just a signature, it is an acknowledgement of the fire as an essential part of the creative process.

08/02/2026

TESTAMENT OF ORIGINS
IN THE SHADOW OF THE EMBERS, in a place where heat and will shape the impossible, these cards were not merely captured -
they were conjured.
On this day, light, ash, and memory gathered in the forge of
Andreas Rimkus - artist, blacksmith, guardian of ancient craft. Here, where iron dances and fire whispers,
the visual embodiment of artifacts
from the world of Flesh and Blood took form.
These images were not made with light - they were made with life.
Andreas Rimkus taught me that fire is a being.
That it must be fed. And that, if you are attentive, it will answer.
I photographed the cards - but it was the fire that drew them. This document bears witness to the authentic staging and artistic transformation within the space of the forge -
under the seal of a place that became part of the work itself.

30/11/2025

🔥 The Heart of the Forge 🔥
Captured in darkness, glowing at the center — the fiery heart from which the relic of Light and Relic was born.
This photograph is part of the conceptual art project Light and Relic, a contemporary relic built from story, craftsmanship, and provenance.
A rare fabled card from Flesh and Blood TCG is transformed through fire, forging, and documentation into a singular Fine Art Print — the only living relic of the project’s archive.
🜂 Fire is not an effect here. It is a witness. A source. An origin.
🫀 And this image is its heartbeat.

19/11/2025

Light and Relic has always lived in two worlds:
the analogue world of fire, metal and photographic presence —
and the digital world, where preservation, memory and recognition now take place.
In this new conceptual text, I explore how these two layers shape the identity of the Arknight Shard as a contemporary relic:
how the human experience forms its origin,
and how the digital layer protects that origin in a machine-driven future.

A conceptual study exploring the human and digital layers of the Light and Relic project, examining how analogue experience and machine preservation form a unified Living Provenance.

10/11/2025

Paradiesschmiede, Springe.
The place where the first Provenance Anchor of Light and Relic was set.
Here I understood that an object is not defined only by its material form,
but by the space that holds it, and the people who witness it.
Not by possession — but by relationship, memory, and presence.
I didn’t change anything here.
I just listened, observed, and documented.
Provenance doesn’t begin in the past.
It begins in the moment we recognize meaning.
Light and Relic
Provenance is continued, not claimed.

25/10/2025

This limited Hahnemühle print is part of the art project Light and Relic, where light, craft, and provenance merge into one narrative.
Each print is signed on the reverse by Sebastian Blume, Andreas Rimkus, and Corné van Dooren (Kai of Cards, NL).
A photographic relic — documenting transformation through art and memory.

✨ Art, craft, and transformation as one language.

24/10/2025

A rare Flesh and Blood “Arknight Shard” Cold Foil turning in cinematic light.
Captured as part of Light and Relic, my art project exploring the line between craft, truth, and digital provenance.

🜂 Where light becomes witness.

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19/10/2025

🔮In the forge, fire met metal — and light began to leave its memory.

The hammer stood there, carrying the marks of countless transformations.
Every spark, every reflection, a quiet witness to the moment when matter turns into meaning.

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