Maneki Neko Art

The Beholders

Collection

This collection of AI-facilitated art is an exploration of more surreal themes and abstract patterns than Maneki's genesis collection, Floriferous.

This is the second collection minted by Maneki. All pieces were originally on Foundation, but a compromised wallet forced her to burn and re-mint three of the pieces that were unsold at the time on her personal contract.

This collection is sold out.

Dubiosity

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Collected by

Mark Kelly

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Our lives are a collection of perceptions. Every waking moment we are observing or being observed: sometimes an active pursuit, sometimes passive, sometimes it is external, and sometimes we look within.

We are all Beholders.

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circles of trust

Here they are and there they go, of unclear origin and fluid form.

Boundaried but borderless, only seen if carefully followed.

Firm but not the firmament, and anything but permanent.

flashes of brilliance

Dancing out of scattered action, with a full head of energy.

Leaving a wake of rich surf — those moves are being copped.

The rise itself was abrupt, but you didn’t expect the interrupt.

U N D E F I N E D

Freedom Etch and Lifts

آزادی

Etch 1899

Lift #762

Freedom in English and Persian.

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Red

Graphite

Red/Graphite was originally a monotype series completed in 2014 and minted on Rarible October through November 2020.

The physical works are rendered in two inks, as the name suggests, applied, treated, layered, and printed in various ways.

This set was minted before the NFT ethos as I understand it now was established: public art monetized through enthusiasts. I spent quite a bit of effort taking very high resolution scans of the originals, hosting them with IPFS, and minting the token with a lower res watermarked version that unlocks the download. This was a compromise for what I had actually wanted to do: a token which could be "spent" to receive the physical piece and thereafter would serve as a digital certificate of authenticity. As much as I try, I'm no programmer and I don't have the ability to write such a smart contract myself, so I rely on the various NFT platforms for functionality. As of yet, I haven't found a platform that can mint a token with exactly the features I'm looking for, but I'm optimistic.

Red/Graphite 12

The last original to be produced, the first NFT minted.

An old friend of mine (who actually owns a physical piece) asked me to mint a version for PoolTogether v3's week 1 prize pool. I sort of rushed through the steps, trying to get all the material together before the start date. As a result, this token is ERC-721 and not connected to the larger ERC-1155 collection.