Blade Runner
Blade Runner is one of the canonical references for the Cattiva Explorer world. Its dystopian urbanism, layered materiality and hybrid organic-machine aesthetic have been deeply influential — a vision of an alternate reality that doesn't abandon beauty but finds it somewhere unexpected. This series uses that lens as a starting point: speculative objects and footwear generated through Midjourney AI, distilling the material qualities and forms that an alternate reality enables. The results reference the familiar world but shift it — enough to feel new and unknown, not so much that it loses believability. That threshold is the interesting place to work.
