🌿 Greenhouse of ImageryCreated by Kior Ko   Project period: 07.27 — 09.30.2024
đŸ–Œïž Artwork collectionTokenized on ETH (BASE) via Manifold🔗 Link to the collection
📄 This is a log about the art collection <Greenhouse of Imagery> and activities around it. — ✶
Table of Contents
  1. Artwork
  2. Exhibition
  3. Digital + Physical
  4. Final


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Artwork


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In Greenhouse of Imagery, fragments from days and nights are nurtured into artistic ideas. Flourishing and growing with careful cultivation, they blossom into vivid and lush visions, infusing visitors’ days and nights with a sweet, lingering fragrance.

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This series of artworks titled <Greenhouse of Imagery> depicts the relationship between me and things in my surroundings.

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Artwork 

  1. Vision 
  2. Elixir
  3. Spring 
  4. Revival
  5. WORDS

Digital painting, 2024, jpeg


✷ 1. What one sees becomes what one thinks; What one thinks blooms their eyes; it circles fertilizing each other. ✷ 2. Vivid vitality of blooms is a treatment that revigorates one. ✷ 3. One dreams to be a flower grower, even if its process stings. ✷ 4. The flowers bloom to revive one when they feel lifeless. ✷ 5. Beautiful words can be hurtful.

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I find the source of my art from daily events, thoughts, sensations, and impressions—and my interpretations of them. Making artwork with these ingredients makes me appreciate being a human day by day.

When you take time to see things, the conversations between you and your surroundings have been sharing in the unseen corner of the space reveal themselves—sometimes, at unexpected angles. It is a window to see the world refreshed perspectives. 

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Exhibition


B.U.T.T. 
— Beyond Unique Transformation Twist
@Chignitta Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Organized by ArtGumiDAO 

The exhibition started with a several session of small talks about life as creators and limitations in creating, with a group of artist friends from different parts of the world. As the talks grew, it turned into an idea of making the talks an exhibition. 

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What limits us? Perfectionism, mannerism, familiarity, need for attention, self-doubt, you name it.

We live on by creativity and have a bottomless passion for expressing it (and maybe being loved for it.)

As creatives, constantly challenging ourselves to go and imagine what’s beyond our boundaries, confronting them, breaking them, and at last, laughing at our limits are crucial to improving — whether it’s about physical or mental challenges, engaging in a fresh new experiment, or pushing us to go the extra mile.

In this exhibition, each of our limits and the efforts to jump over their boundaries become the theme for artistic expression. 

We invite you (the audience) to our creative adventure.
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Participating in this exhibition was a meaningful start for the art series Greenhouse of Imagery since the theme motivated me to do something new. 

Now, the exhibition ended, but under the same concept, this art collection will continue to bring more beauty to the onchain art space.

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  1. Opening day
  2. Displayed artwork 1
  3. Displayed artwork 2
  4. The exhibition view 1
  5. The exhibition view 2
  6. Entrance with the exhibition poster


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Digital + Physical


This exhibition’s theme encouraged the participating artists to try something new — for me, it was bringing my art created digitally to physical forms (which were brought as prints.) Yet, I also wanted to present the artwork as digital to the audience.

So, during the exhibition, discount codes for NFT editions were offered to the physical Giclée print collectors. This offer served as a connection to the gap between digital and physical art collecting.

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    There were also physical goods made of my artwork <WORDS.> ✷ This artwork was mintable as an open edition on ZORA, with a month period — on BASE. ✷ It first opened for minting at NFT ART TOKYO (06.28.2024.) During the event, the minters of <WORDS> were able to get a physical art poster version — it was my very first attempt to mix digital art collecting with a physical environment. ✷ There were some unclaimed art posters left after NFT ART TOKYO, so I exhibited them in the B.U.T.T. exhibition, as well. 

    1. Signing certificate for the print
    2. Package of the print 
    3. NFT discount codes
    4. Giclée prints on the wall
    5. Mint page for NFT editions
    6. WORDS art poster


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    Final.


     Creating artwork, to me, is a not-so-short, emotionally fluctuating, and draining journey that gives me feelings of wonder, joy, and gratitude. The path of my artwork, from the chaotic sketchbook to the digital canvas, and to being put on chain, continues to the next project. 


    1. Idea sketch of Vision
    2. Idea sketch of Revival
    3. Idea sketch of Spring
    4. Idea sketch of Elixir
    5. Spring in progress
    6. Revival in progress
    7. Elixir in progress

    2024 ©Kior