by piv .
Acrylic on wood
h: 30 w: 30 d: 3 (cms).
As a digital artist and painter, much of my work is inspired by CryptoPunks, the 2017 pixel art project that has become a cultural icon. The proposed work, Cropped Punk, is rooted in pixel art but departs from the clear figuration of the originals. By isolating and cropping a fragment, the image loses recognizability as a portrait and begins to verge on geometric abstraction. The use of paint on wood further distances it from its digital origins, emphasizing material qualities such as brushwork and subtle shifts in color absent from the file. This process resonates with the theme of Small Matters. CryptoPunks are pixel art, arguably the smallest possible form of digital art — both in scale and in file size — making them ideally suited for blockchain storage. Cropped Punk pushes this further: a cropped fragment of an already minimal image, reflecting on scale, compression, and how meaning persists when digital immateriality is translated into physical form.
€800
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