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Indian Head Gold five-dollar Half Eagle oil painting by Toby Mikle
Signature painting

Gold Coin

1910 five-dollar Half Eagle · oil on gesso board · 18 × 20 inches

The channel family

Six channels, one expanding archive.

Finished work, experiments, virtual worlds, time-lapse and aerial footage—every public Incoprea-linked channel in one place.

Surreal Juxtapozism virtual scene

Juxtapozism

Visual experiments

Collage, editing and invented realities from an earlier channel era.

Open channel
Lindens Are Virtual gallery and city environment

Lindens Are Virtual

Virtual worlds

Second Life architecture, galleries and stories built in shared space.

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Life of a Camera time-lapse city scene

Life of a Camera

Time-lapse

City light, weather and movement observed through time-lapse photography.

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Aerial landscape from the Drone and GoPro channel

Drone / GoPro

Earlier channel

Flights, landscape footage and small-camera field experiments.

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Audience favorites

The work people return to.

Selected from verified video totals and the journal’s current readership—not simply the newest entries.

Secret Garden Incoprea video artwork

Secret Garden

One of the most-watched works in the Incoprea film archive.

Most watched
 Other Worlds Incoprea video artwork

Other Worlds

A widely watched visual journey that also became a publication.

Most watched
 Alien City original drawing video

Alien City Drawing

An original drawing whose making found an audience of its own.

Popular artwork
 Virtual city environment from the Incoprea journal

Virtual City Journal

Video, the city model and the possibility of creative virtual residents.

Most-read journal path
 Original numbered Incoprea envelope drawing

$5 Original Drawings

A numbered series of small original works made to stay direct and affordable.

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 Maintenance Required book cover from Incoprea Publications

Publications

Independent fiction, nonfiction, art books and illustrated projects in one catalog.

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The living archive

Follow the work across time.

Eleven visual anchors lead into the deeper map below—from the first Incoprea drawing to the current studio. Every section opens independently, so the archive stays rich without becoming a wall.

1995—now

One practice, many lives.

These are points of entry rather than a greatest-hits ranking: drawing, paint, digital worlds, film, field studies and the present-day journal.

Framed Incoprea Castle drawing from 19951995 · roots

Incoprea Castle

The earliest surviving Incoprea drawing: towers, structures and an imagined city.

 Dense blue and violet Flowers digital illustration2014 · digital

Flowers

Intricate organic linework carried into digital color.

 Old Mill in Hastings Minnesota oil painting2015 · first painting

The Old Mill

The Hastings mill in oil—the first painting in the archive.

 Indian Head Gold five-dollar Half Eagle oil painting2016 · icon

Gold Coin

The showpiece now leading this page: oil on gesso board.

 Dense panoramic Bug Bar drawing from a dream2015–19 · expansion

Bug Bar

A dream drawing that grew into a two-canvas painted world.

 Watercolor of a weathered fence post in a field2021 · a new place

First Watercolor Here

A small field observation marking a new studio chapter.

 Vermillion Falls Hastings Minnesota oil painting2022 · field painting

Vermillion Falls

Water, rock and moving light observed in oil on panel.

 Painted study of the cliffs and water at Taylors Falls2023 · river studies

St. Croix / Taylors Falls

Repeated plein-air studies become a record of place and geology.

 Watercolor of a textured stone mill facade with a wooden door and dark arch2024 · watercolor

Mill Watercolor

The stone façade, warm wooden door and shadowed arch—the overlooked piece you remembered.

 Night view across an illuminated Incoprea virtual city2025 · virtual city

A World Kept Alive

The long virtual-world practice continued through journals and films.

 Recent Incoprea watercolor and ink work2026 · current

Watercolor & Ink

The present practice remains handmade, restless and open-ended.
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Art Across Time

Painting, watercolor, drawing and digital work from 1995 to now

Old Mill oil painting previewVermillion Falls painting previewMill watercolor preview52 paths

Visual deep dive

Field observation, invented cities and the handmade thread between them.

Watercolor of the old stone mill facade2024 · rediscoveredMill WatercolorStone, timber and shadow held in a loose architectural study. The Old Mill in Hastings oil painting2015 · first paintingThe Old MillThe same recurring subject, approached in oil. Vermillion Falls Hastings oil on panel2022 · oil on panelVermillion FallsA vertical rush of water and rock from Hastings. Taylors Falls landscape painting2023 · river studiesTaylors FallsThe St. Croix landscape returned to across several studies. Darby the Bear hot-air-balloon watercolor2015 · watercolorDarby the BearAn early storybook watercolor with a hot-air balloon. Recent watercolor and ink artwork2026 · currentWatercolor & InkA recent branch of the still-growing handmade archive. Fantasy waterfall cascading over a mossy stone form2025 · digital cascadeWaterfallThe waterfall motif shifts from observed place into fantasy.

All art paths

Collections first, followed by individual works and older pages.

Art by MediumThe main visual-art index PaintingsCanvas, panel, landscape and observation Current Oil PaintingsRecent studio work and works in progress DrawingsGraphite, ink and intricate linework WatercolorWash, ink and mixed-media studies Digital ArtworkIllustration, technical and painterly work AI GalleriesCurated and documented assisted experiments Original Galleries 2022–23Earlier collected visual work Gold CoinIndian Head Half Eagle oil painting $5 Original DrawingsSmall numbered originals and envelope art Incoprea Castle, 1995The earliest archived Incoprea drawing Flowers, 2014Dense digital color illustration Alien City DrawingArchitectural black-and-white linework The Old Mill — OilThe first painting in the public archive Hastings Old Mill — PencilA 2015 drawing of the same place Mill WatercolorThe 2024 stone-mill study Darby the BearEarly narrative watercolor Bug BarA dream drawing expanded across two canvases Alien GardenInvented organic landscape Koch CityIndustrial childhood memory in oil Ancient Natural Trap CaveOil on canvas, sold Deep DreamsOil on canvas, sold Red No. 5Oil on canvas, sold Abstract Oil on Linen2015 painted abstraction St. Paul at NightCity memory in oil Vermillion FallsHastings waterfall, oil on panel St. Croix / Taylors Falls StudiesRiver, cliffs and repeated field paintings Watercolor & InkCurrent handmade work St. Croix BeachA 2026 field study Not AI / HandmadeA well-read handmade-work post Winter StreamOriginal watercolor landscape Gold Water ReflectionsNature observed as abstract light Woodland StudyGraphite creek and forest drawing Creek: Image / MemoryDrawing and source photograph together Reclaimed Car VariationsAn overgrown car moving through process WaterfallA 2025 digital fantasy cascade New PosterGraphite timber structure and process Architectural Painting WIPA dark hand-painted interior structure Original Artwork to AIOne drawing transformed across media Tree-House PaintingOriginal 2024 work in progress Gothic House Ink SketchArchitectural drawing from the 2024 journal Blue-Gold Mechanical FantasyPainting from the 2024 archive Aircraft in a StormPainted flight and weather study Wisconsin BarnDocumentary place and rural structure Callot FritellinoOil on panel The CourtyardPainting in progress Insect CityOil-on-canvas work in progress St. Paul CathedralSold architectural drawing Aquatic FloridaEarly aquatic drawing Alien StoreEarly work in progress St. Paul in VariationsDigital color across one sketch City DrawingAn early architectural city study
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Worlds & 3D

Virtual cities, galleries, architecture and long-running imagined places

Lindens Are Virtual city previewCarson Mansion 3D model previewVirtual Gallery preview43 paths

Visual deep dive

Built environments move from shared grids to browser tools and cinematic archives.

Illuminated Incoprea virtual city at nightLong-running worldVirtual City JournalA personal city, its films and the people who kept creating inside it. Lindens Are Virtual gallery and city environmentShared worldsLindens Are VirtualCreative minds explored through virtual architecture. Carson Mansion digital 3D model at evening3D architectureCarson MansionA detailed model from the current 3D journal. Browser-based Incoprea Virtual Gallery exhibition hallBrowser worldVirtual GalleryWalk through the work inside a live 3D exhibition space. Surreal Midwestern urban street from the Exile archiveDeep archiveExile WorldsHundreds of images extending one unsettled Midwestern reality.

All world paths

Core destinations, year archives and named environments.

Virtual GalleryEnter the browser-based gallery World StudioBuild and explore personal 3D worlds 3D JournalModels, architecture and world-building notes JuxtapozismCollage, place and invented reality Lindens Are VirtualVirtual architecture, galleries and stories Virtual City JournalThe city and its creative residents 2021 ArchiveJuxtapozism and Lindens Are Virtual era 2022 ArchiveArtwork and studio chronology 2023 ArchiveArtwork, stories and studio chronology 2024 ArchiveProjects across media and platforms 2025 ArchiveArtwork, films and experiments Exile 2025Surreal Midwestern world archive Exile 2A deeper level of the visual world Exile 3Further environments and encounters Long Road HomeA 140-image journey through the world SuburbsDomestic edges and altered neighborhoods Route AIOne path through assisted environments ArchiveA 108-image world collection MerchantsShops, keepers and invented commerce EverythingEverywhereCrossing scenes and visual systems CurrencyTokens and artifacts from invented places TranquilityQuiet spaces inside the larger archive LandlordsCharacters, property and uneasy control Pawn ShopObjects and stories passing through one room 360°Immersive views and spatial experiments Carnival GamesMidway architecture and strange amusements AutodidacticA world organized around learning itself LedgesEdges, heights and precarious spaces BeadworkMaterial patterns within the world archive Ominous Vending Co.Machines, products and implied stories Escape RoomsRooms designed around exits and uncertainty RoutesRoads and ways through the archive PinballTables and kinetic world fragments Cosmic CasinoChance and spectacle in another register WaitA 48-image held moment Junkyard DwellingsSixty-six structures made from remains Alley MuralsPublic marks inside invented streets Civis LuminaA luminous city collection Ferrum FoulIndustrial architecture and atmosphere MetaFaunaCreatures shaped by the world around them CharmsSixty-two talismans and small objects ShelterStructures built for refuge MasterClassA learning-world experiment
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Film & Channels

Finished films, experimental cuts, virtual tours and six distinct channels

Secret Garden film previewThree Counties Over film previewOther Worlds film preview17 paths

Visual deep dive

Audience landmarks beside experimental work that belongs on Incoprea 2.

Secret Garden widely watched Incoprea filmMain channel · audience landmarkSecret GardenThe largest public entry point into the visual film archive. Other Worlds visual journeyMain channelOther WorldsA widely watched passage through the imagined archive. Three Counties Over Midwestern story filmIncoprea 2 · experimentThree Counties OverStories too strange to stay buried, given room on the experimental channel. Under the Field experimental filmIncoprea 2 · field filmUnder the FieldA quieter experimental path through the same Midwestern imagination.

All film paths

Every channel identity plus selected films and libraries.

IncopreaMain channel and finished selections Incoprea 2Experimental films, sound and process JuxtapozismEarlier visual-channel identity Lindens Are VirtualVirtual-world channel identity and archive Life of a CameraTime-lapse city, weather and light Drone / GoProAerial and field-camera work Art Videos LibraryA curated third-party art playlist Secret GardenOne of the most-watched Incoprea films Other WorldsWidely watched visual journey and publication Alien City DrawingA popular original artwork in process Art + AITraditional and generated work in motion Maintenance RequiredSurreal Midwestern folk-horror film Three Counties OverStories too strange to stay buried Under the FieldExperimental Incoprea 2 film Virtual Art GalleryA moving tour through the virtual work Animated ArtworkA widely read moving-image post Midwestern After HoursA well-viewed late-night visual sequence
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Writing, Books & Research

Studio journals, art history, independent books and illustrated stories

Maintenance Required book-cover previewOther Worlds book-cover previewArtists of the Past painting preview26 paths

Visual deep dive

Research and publishing are treated as part of the artwork, not a separate footnote.

Ivan Aivazovsky Naples Bay painting representing Artists of the Past20 volumes · 600 artistsArtists of the PastA new illustrated research library with 1,200 selected works. Maintenance Required ebook coverIndependent fictionMaintenance RequiredSurreal Midwestern folk horror in print and ebook. Other Worlds art book coverArt bookOther WorldsThe visual journey gathered into a publication. St. Croix Falls painting for the Geological History of the MidwestDeep time · placeGeological HistoryIllustrated research beneath familiar Midwestern ground. Illustration for The Depot of Mild WeatherIllustrated storyThe Depot of Mild WeatherA speculative threshold where weather becomes institutional.

All reading paths

Research, books, journals, process writing and story collections.

Art Journal & ArchiveNew work, field notes and the long trail Studio UpdatesIncoprea site journal and work in progress Artists of the Past600 profiles and 1,200 selected works Artists of the Past — Volume 01Thirty illustrated lives and a gallery film PublicationsThe complete books and collected-writing catalog Internet PeopleA living index of online figures and stories Artist’s PathNotes and advice from a working artist Geological History of the MidwestDeep time beneath familiar ground Faux PublicationsImagined covers and books that suggest other worlds Incoprea ComicSequential experiments and visual stories MyBookIllustratorChildren’s-book illustration and production Maintenance RequiredSurreal Midwestern folk horror Three Counties OverIndependent story collection Other WorldsVisual journey and art book Incoprea 2021–26A six-year archive in book form Space LunchIllustrated children’s science-fiction story $5 Original DrawingsThe numbered envelope-art series Animated ArtworkA measured audience-favorite post Virtual City JournalWorld-building and creative residents Linux / Mobile StudioA well-read working-process entry Learning StrudelCode, rhythm and process The Depot of Mild WeatherIllustrated speculative short story Louis WainArt-history essay and visual study On-Demand Illusory ContentA long-form thesis on AI media P O R T A L SA virtual threshold and world experiment Adventure GamesSeven complete browser text adventures
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Apps, Games & Tools

Released work, active experiments and the complete Workshop shelf

Sphere game previewGame Studio previewWorld Studio preview60 paths

Visual deep dive

Finished games at the front; builders and experimental tools remain close to the workbench.

Sphere surreal exploration gameplayReleased explorationSphereA hidden county, strange evidence and a landscape that rewards close looking. Poker game table in Ember GulchReleased gamePokerCinematic Texas Hold’em in Ember Gulch. Incoprea Game Studio ten-tool workbenchBuilder suiteGame StudioTen linked tools for making art, sound, systems and playable worlds. AV Studio menu with twenty creative applicationsCreative suiteAV StudioTwenty apps for sound, image, motion and production. World Studio 3D builder with a populated landscape3D builderWorld StudioBuild and explore personal browser-based worlds. Incoprea BBS private ANSI nodeExperimental technologyIncoprea BBSA private ANSI node reimagined for the browser.

Every app path

The entire released catalog and every current public Workshop destination.

AppsReleased games and current highlights WorkshopPrototypes, tools and active experiments SphereSurreal exploration across a hidden county PokerCinematic Texas Hold’em in Ember Gulch HeliofieldAmbient solar drone instrument AV StudioTwenty creative apps for sound, image and motion Game StudioA linked suite of game-making tools Multiverse CardsCards, encounters and strange worlds The Unnumbered ExitA city behind the city Bellwether ’77 — TextmodeA dimensional ASCII city Northwind NineQuiet country disc golf Incoprea BBSPrivate ANSI node in the browser Trading PostA living river town ShardmeadowSix peoples and two alliances Star VectorPlayable vector-space experiment Five After MidnightFive late-night skill rooms Velvet Voltage CasinoDeuces Wild practice table Creative SparkPrompt engine for making Color SpinnerKinetic paint-wheel studio World StudioBuild and explore personal 3D worlds POV ForgePerspective-construction editor 32B Game MakerMake five kinds of 2D game AudioBlocksBuild songs with musical blocks SIGNALGenerative sound and signal instrument CosmixCosmic visual mix lab Archive CinemaA personal archive theater Math BloomLiving equations and visual systems Color MixerFocused color-blending utility Midwest Geology & HistoryIllustrated deep-time experience Comfy HeadphonesCalm visual listening room Interstellar RadioSignal console for distant transmissions Game MakerScene-building workshop TypeFocused writing studio Caves & CastlesPainted fantasy world PulsewakePhone-motion game experiment PerspectivePerspective drawing tool Image to ASCIITurn pictures into text VesperreachSeven duskbound lands and the Underwell Virtual GalleryBrowser-based 3D exhibition hall Pro Paint StudioBrowser painting utility Transparent PNGBackground-removal utility EnsemblePC orchestra experiment PaperPrintout-making utility Mirror DrawSymmetrical drawing experiment 3D EditorSmall browser modeling tool ResizeQuick image-sizing utility PDF EditorFocused PDF utility Poster MakerLayout and poster experiment WishboneSmall playable experiment MANYWHERESurreal exploratory world Bellwether ’77Graphical city mystery Lumen TerrariumLiving light-and-growth system Sable EightDark experimental game Greyline: The Long ReturnAtmospheric journey in progress Phase GardenGenerative music environment CUTLINEExperimental music tool ChordwellChord-centered sound tool Adventure GamesSeven complete browser text adventures Wren SolitaireA quiet card-game page CreArt AppOlder creative-app journal entry
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Sound & Music

Fifty-seven public tracks, atmospheric sets and playable instruments

Signal Weather album-art previewSIGNAL generative instrument previewAudioBlocks visual songboard preview14 paths

Visual deep dive

Listen to finished sets or enter the tools where sound is still being made.

Signal Weather atmospheric works coverAtmospheric setSignal WeatherThree works where sound behaves like changing air. Glass Meridian audio collection coverAudio collectionGlass MeridianA focused path through the public sound archive. SIGNAL generative sound consolePlayable instrumentSIGNALSound, image and generative signal inside a browser console. AudioBlocks colorful musical songboardVisual compositionAudioBlocksBuild songs by arranging musical blocks across a timeline. Cosmix cosmic visual music editorMix labCosmixA playful cosmic editor for layering sound and motion.

All sound paths

Listening archives, sets, instruments and code-music experiments.

Incoprea on SoundCloudFifty-seven public audio entries Signal WeatherThree atmospheric works Glass MeridianCollected audio work AI Audio ArchiveFourteen music and sound experiments AudioBlocksA visual songboard for making music SIGNALGenerative sound and signal instrument CosmixCosmic visual mix lab HeliofieldAmbient solar-drone instrument Interstellar RadioDistant transmissions and sound collage Comfy HeadphonesCalm visual listening room Phase GardenGenerative music environment CUTLINEExperimental music tool ChordwellChord-centered composition tool Learning StrudelCode-music notes from the working journal

The featured layer can keep changing while this deeper map holds the long arc: early drawings, physical paintings, virtual worlds, films, books, sound, apps and work still in motion.

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