fxhash has been an eyeopener in terms of pool of art, creativity and immense talent. Most of them go without a sale, a mintout or even a follow or Twitter frenzy in days leading up to release date. Whatever the reason, the art is undeniable and in your face. OR it's a slow burn that you will forget upon seeing, but will come back looking for it since it remains etched in your head unconsciously. Here are a few that I've found in the last year, that I'd like to share - These are my personal favourites for how they speak to me as a collector.
Disclaimer - I do own a couple of these pieces. I have neither the technical knowledge nor can I speak to the commercial long term value of these pieces, but only am sharing from an art perspective. DYOR if you intend on buying!
The project is Smoky Mountains. It depicts a scene of mountainscape against the sky on 'n' number of panels. The smallest being 3, the highest being 20.
The scene comes to life and it changes ever so slowly and beautifully from night to day and vice-versa. It is a mood elevator, and a prized beauty for any viewer caught unwittingly watching it in passing.
Open in live view, and full screen to fully appreciate this piece.
Total - 50 Floor - 12 XTZ
https://www.fxhash.xyz/u/clayheaton https://twitter.com/clayheaton
Artist - Clay Heaton
Artist - Daniel Bali
filaments -
A simulation using differential growth, imitating simple life-forms resembling bacteria. The points in each filament attract and repel each other, to form doodle-like shapes in the end.
Primordial soup - 1024 kinematic automata that imitate living organisms, leaving behind a trace of paint before going extinct. Blotches of paint are deposited by these nodes that attract and repulse each other according to rules based on their color and size.
Daniel Bali's Primordial soup is what drew me to his collection. But soon 'filaments' took over. Both these projects are exceptional in their animated dance with colours as organisms on a drawing board. 'pendula' and 'walkinthepark' deserve rich mentions in this collection from the artist.
https://www.fxhash.xyz/u/balidani https://twitter.com/balidani
Artist - cloudnoise
https://www.fxhash.xyz/u/cloudnoise https://twitter.com/CloudnoisePxl
Here is an artist whose first four collections on fxhash is dedicated to the Brutalist architecture and is applied to everything down to its last pixel, literally. Brutalist Movement, Brutalist Manifesto, Habitat and even Brutal Larvas. All come together in mostly blue and red combinations and is a collectors item for the quirkiness it enshrines.
Artist - Marcus Christopher
https://www.fxhash.xyz/u/Marcus%20Christopher https://twitter.com/artnfacts
Accalance 1 "is an investigation into the visual weight of colours".
It is an interesting experiment of sorts and the visual outputs are quite soothing to the eyes and meets a certain aesthetic that I've grown to like. For some reason I was drawn to the colour palettes and sizes of the fields which matched my experience with another collection on fxhash. Each of the 128 tokens is quite pleasing.
https://www.fxhash.xyz/u/Tomluyten https://twitter.com/tom_luyten
Artist - Tom Luyten
Tom Luyten's Machine 7 and 11.
No words, just watch them on full screen.