Deckoviz: The Genesis Piece

The Art of Being: Why We Built Deckoviz

How did Deckoviz come to be? What was its genesis? It started not as a product but as a vector to infuse moments and spaces with more life, more spirit. It started in a bleak space 14 months ago - in my apartment, but also in my inner world. The walls were empty. No art, no color, no life. And honestly, that mirrored how I felt inside, as for the past year, I had been fruitlessly trying to find the projects I could devote the next 3-10 years of my life to, something I could feel deeply animated and actualized about.

The days were slow and grey, and something deep within me started asking the kind of questions and themes I’ve always been drawn to: what could change the way we feel in our spaces and moments? How could we infuse these with more spirit, more animation, more radiance? What could lift us, move us, make us feel deeply? What could bring emotional vividness back into our world?

That’s when the seed was planted.

Because art at its core isn’t just about decoration or aesthetics. It’s one of the most powerful and essential technologies of the human spirit. It’s storytelling. It’s emotion-setting. It’s how we make sense of the world - not as it is, but as we are, and how we'd like to be. Art doesn’t show you the objective truth. It reflects your inner landscape, your hopes, your memories, your moods. It’s the bridge between the chaos of life and the clarity of feeling.

And yet, in our homes, in most of our lives, art is dead. Not dead as in gone, but static. Distant. Impersonal. Detached from who we are and how we feel, especially now. Most people hang a painting, maybe a print they like - and that’s it. Day after day, month after month, that piece fades into the background. The emotion that pulled you in at first? It dulls. The novelty? It wears off. And what was once meaningful becomes mundane.

That’s the brokenness I felt. And that’s the fire that started this whole journey. The magical becoming the mundane, and something to bring the magical essence out of daily moments.

The Problem Isn’t Art. It’s Inaccessibility.

Art has always been sacred in a sense, but it’s also been exclusive. You walk through a gallery or museum, and you see fragments of brilliance - but they weren’t made for you. They were made through someone else’s lens, from someone else’s experience. And even when we connect with them, most of the time we can’t bring that magic into our everyday life. That’s a tragedy, because art is one of the most universal parts of the human experience. 

The conclusion I drew was that the best art - sorry, purists - is that which has been created for you. 

We'll return to this theme in a moment, but let me ask you something deeper: what if art could evolve with us?

What if it could reflect you - your moods, your desires, your values, your rhythms, your inner world - moment to moment, day to day? What if your home could become a living canvas that responded to who you are and who you’re becoming?

That’s the heart of Deckoviz.

A New Kind of Art: Personalized. Intelligent. Alive.

This is where the power of generative AI, curatorial engines, and deep mental and emotional modeling comes into play. For the past few years, at Elinity and elsewhere, I’ve been obsessed with building emotionally intelligent systems - systems that don’t just know your behavior but understand your being.

Now, we’re taking that core idea - deep modeling of the self - and applying it to art and space-setting.

Deckoviz is our flagship product. It's a smart art frame. But calling it that barely scratches the surface. Because Deckoviz isn’t about passively displaying images. It’s about creating an immersive, emotionally resonant, evolving, multisensory, multimodal art experience - made just for you.

It learns you. It gets you. It understands your values, your lifestyle, your context, your dynamics, your rhythms. And it creates from that understanding.

It doesn’t just curate what already exists - it can generate entirely new artworks that don’t exist in the world yet. Visuals. Music. Multimodal experiences. It can transform your photos - family portraits, travel memories, personal moments - into magical reimaginings. A Monet version of your wedding. A Studio Ghibli take on your childhood home. A Van Gogh-style painting of your child’s drawing. A Picasso-take on your trip of a lifetime.

And it doesn’t stop there.

Because art, again, is about timing. Context. Mood. Deckoviz can recognize special moments - your anniversary, your child’s birthday, the start of seasons - and present artworks that elevate and reflect the emotional quality of those moments. It’s not just what it shows - it’s when and how it shows it.

Beyond Paintings: Toward Storytelling and Ritual

One of the most beautiful things people have connected with is our storytelling feature. Imagine a dad narrating a bedtime story to his daughter - and Deckoviz visualizing that story, live. Imagine music crafted to suit the tone, evolving as the story progresses. Imagine not just seeing a picture, but entering a world.

We’re also exploring rituals - morning and evening experiences, emotional grounding tools, interactive games, poetic modes. This isn’t just a screen. It’s not just tech. It’s a living interface for your emotional life.

And as AI continues to evolve, we’ll be able to go even further - into short video experiences, interactive poetry, evolving dreamscapes. Multiple dynamic frames to convey what one never could. Music, visuals, motion, emotion - interwoven through a single emotionally intelligent thread.

As we have more leisure time in the post-AGI world, art is going to become a bigger part of our lives. And we see Deckoviz as the conduit to bring about the most evocative and powerful, moving and inspiring, provoking and grounding, moments in your home space.

The Best Art Is Personalized. And I’ll Stand By That.

I know this is a bold thing to say - and it might ruffle feathers - but here it is:

The best art is personalized art.

It’s the kind that makes you feel. That reflects your world, your hopes, your heartbreaks. That evolves with your life, your seasons, your state of being. That deepens your relationship with the spaces you inhabit. That makes your inner world visible.

That’s the world Deckoviz opens up.

We’re building something I truly believe in. Something that isn't just beautiful but meaningful. Something that could live in homes, in studios, in restaurants, in therapy rooms, in yoga spaces - and turn those places into vessels of emotion, story, and magic.

This Is Just the Beginning

I’ve always believed that the best products aren’t painkillers. They’re possibility-makers. They don’t fix a problem. They elevate the experience of being human. The paradigm of problems will evolve in the post-AGI world as we climb higher in the hierarchy of needs. And as self-actualization becomes the core part of our being and living.

That’s the vision behind Deckoviz. That’s the soul of it.

So here we are. We hope it brings magic into your home, your moments, your memories. I hope it helps you feel more. See more. Be more.

Because Deckoviz isn’t just about art.

It’s about you.

It’s about aliveness.

It’s about the human experience - made visible, made more real, made more magical, for as Einstein reminds us oh so powerfully, 'there are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle', and Deckoviz is all about appreciating and actualizing the awe, beauty, and meaning of it all.