The Tool and the Philosophy**

English version

The tools an artist chooses are never neutral. They are not merely instruments; they are philosophical choices. They can be a rented space where you operate by the house rules, or they can be your own workshop where you set the rules yourself. One is a walled garden, the other is an open ecosystem.

My decision to exclusively use open-source software in all of my artistic creation is a direct extension of a core D!NA tenet: Use only digital tools that you have full control over.

This is not a choice about cost. It is a choice about sovereignty. In a closed system, the artist is a user; in an open one, the artist is a participant. It is the guarantee that the tool does not impose its own pre-packaged “style” or aesthetic onto the work. It ensures that every brushstroke, every color shift, is my own.

It is a quiet act of independence. An insistence that the art remains sovereign, from the first line of code to the final pixel.


– Refur Geirdal