THE WORKS OF @hiroji_kotegawa: Hiroji is a Japanese artist based in Kabukicho, Tokyo. He produces visual and audio art. Hiroji's projects to date have explored themes of viewing, hybrid human-AI design, viewing the metaverse from inside, and the impermanence of being.
"SZNS" is collaboration between @hiroji_kotegawa and @JakNFT of 888 hand-crafted artworks that combine pixel art, glitch and sound to create unique meditative experiences, inspired by traditional Japanese Suibokuga paintings, Japanese ukiyo-e prints, and Chinese shanshui hua paintings.
Below SZNS #504, "Zazen" character type in "peaceful mind" season.
SZNS #198 a monochrome "Enlightened Monk".
'Hyaku 2' #5, a collection of 100 1/1's artworks by @hiroji_kotegawa themed "Modern Alienation".
Hyaku 2 #6.
The New Beginning #3: "The Future is Bright". 29 tokens in total.
The New Beginning #2. "Life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to the other, on a bridge of dreams." 26 tokens in total.
The New Beginning #1. "Do nothing which is of no use." 17 tokens in total.
The Final Chapter. "Seasons changing fast, Lives pass like falling snowflakes, Time keeps on ticking. ❄️❄️❄️" Those who minted The Final Chapter could redeem a "New Beginning" token by burning two "Final Chapter" tokens. The burn for each version was just available for 24hours, holders not being able to redeem a version of which the burn window had closed. 42 tokens in total remaining after all three burn windows had closed.
Construct #53. "Thanks to technological progress, longevity and immortality no longer seem so exaggerated. Many large companies are currently working on these topics. The most "sci-fi" idea of all is that in the future you will be able to download your mind and upload it into a new synthetic body.If that happened one day, it would mean you could be immortal. Construct is my visual representation of a mind that "lives" in cyberspace before being uploaded into a new body." Creative Process behind Construct: 1.) The background is a generative art created using Processing software, 2.) the Construct is 3D modelled by a program and carved by hand, and 3) The void is 100% hand-painted by Hiroji.
Hyaku #3. "The way of walking alone." Hyaku is a collection of 100 1/1's portraits. Each piece was created from scratch as it has no shared base or layers.
HirOG #52. "Never stray from the Way." HirOG is a derivate of Hiroji's personal PFP.
"The Most Mysterious Artwork". "There is more than one path to the top of the mountain." More than 30 artworks were merged together to create this piece.