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MEK is an Indonesian-based pixel artist. Started as a graphic designer with 12 years of experience in running a graphic design studio, pixel art is his medium of choice to express things that’s not quite translatable through practices in graphic design. Often found Ukiyo-E and Shin-Hanga as his main compass and fountain of art— one of his biggest mission is to bring pixel art medium out of pop-art, cute or game-esque notion into something that’s more timeless and agnostic to current trends. “Layers of Eden 天” was the real genesis of my pixel-art style explorations. The fascination to translate the hard pixel boxes into something softer was coming from Japanese old woodblock prints. The two share the common traits of translating something that’s very rigid (woodplanks, pixel boxes), into a seamless picture of landscapes, portraits, and graphics— that often times made you forget that it initially came from a very rigid components. “Snake of Eden 天” is the small card pair airdropped to the primary collectors of the main piece. My dimension and size exploration came very early on. I don’t marry to one monolithic kind of style and theme— but the red line between all of the pieces have similar undertones; to make people forget about real world temporarily, to have a moment of pause and contemplation, and made the audience forgot about the medium itself (pixelart) and rather enjoy the piece as a whole. Which ultimately brought me to this special piece, “Retribution of a Builder”, which was made in the rougher part and times of our web3 journey. · · One more stone, one more pillar, Watching fellow builder turned a killer. “To make foundation out of blood”, In the end, it was made on top of mud. —Michael Alexander, 2023 (MEK)

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