The idea for Planet 173 was born out of a painful breakup. To dull the pain from time to time, Sell was given a few prescription pills by a neurologist friend to calm himself. Lying on the floor of his studio, he saw himself from a drone-like perspective, shattered into individual pieces—a rushing sensation that managed to articulate his emotions with unsettling precision.

From this emerged the idea: What if all these fragments were creatures, built upon Sell’s character traits, now hurled onto a planet where they must build a new life for themselves?

Although born from a negative experience, the potential of this idea became clear over time. A restart—not only for oneself, but also for humanity’s eternal task: exploring and striving for a form of good coexistence.

A new era, a new calendar; emotions and states that one can converse with due to their materialization; plants that reflect moods; and, of course, the coexistence of these diverse creatures and extreme characters.

The number 173 stems from Sell’s affinity for prime numbers. It is a perfect number, as both the number itself and the sum of its digits are prime numbers. Sell also plans to live to be 173 years old.

On this planet, Sell continues to explore sounds and adds stories of the individual creatures to them. He has set himself the task of writing a screenplay in the form of visual art, with the aim of developing Planet 173 into a film series in the future.