Dylan White, known as Ruralidyll, is an artist whose work is driven by an urge to capture his connection to natural landscape, extending it toward what he calls a Romantic need for transcendence. In his own words, “the drawing of the platonic idyll strives for a brief feeling of transcendence through the repeated drawing of idealised natural form”.
His 2022 piece Tych was released on Teia as part of this practice.
In February 2023 he helped co-organize TezQuakeAid, a Tezos community fundraising initiative launched after the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, becoming its de facto social media coordinator. He described it in his own words as “a rotating assembly, a loose-knit, non-hierarchical, decentralized group of friends and strangers, artists, collectors, developers”. Its first phase raised roughly 120,000 tez, worth about $100,000 at the time, which was shared between Ahbap, Inara, and the International Committee of the Red Cross.He also served as one of eleven community curators for Teia in a Tezos-hosted exhibition with RefractionDAO at the Nautilus in Miami.
