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8. We contemporary artists stand far apart in the society from such real-world values and meanings, and I believe our job is to transmit messages from that singular position.
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7. And so I am constructing this roadmap not as a product description but with a hope that it will serve as a pictorial puzzle for breaking down Murakami’s artistic concept.
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6. In the first place, art is a thought process to discern what is meaningful and to makes sense of what seems meaningless—not a concept that refers to the flow of residue that results after the thought, such as the product itself, or the awarding or trading of things.
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5. By the way, this series of texts here are numbered, but basically it’s just my essay. So perhaps its content may not be the kind of thing people would want to discuss on Discord, for instance.
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👉 Each field has 108 flower images, resulting in 11,664 flower images in total. The number 108 is a reference to bonnō, or earthly temptations. 🌸
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👉 The work is being developed with the number 108 as the keyword; a combination of 108 backgrounds and flower colors make up a field, and there are 108 fields.👉
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4. Murakami.Flowers is a work in which artist Takashi Murakami’s representative artwork, flowers, are expressed as dot art evocative of Japanese TV games created in the 1970s. 👉
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3. In any case, I intend to present my plans one by one.
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2. I think this roadmap may be a little different from those put forth by the forerunners of NFT art. (Or maybe it’s no different.)
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1. I am currently making the roadmap for Murakami.Flowers.
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727 is one of my magic numbers.
This number comes from a 300 x 450 cm painting I made in 1996, three years after the birth of Mr. DOB in 1993. 👉
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👉 It is my hope that Murakami.Flowers can be the symbol of such an idea. 🌸
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👉 Anger is amplified when greed is not satisfied. When a one is driven by anger, one is left with regrets.👉
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👉 Greed is bottomless desire. In Buddhism, greed is considered to be unfulfillable. No matter how wealthy or beautiful, humans always want more. 👉
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Of the 108 bonnō, the three that cause the most suffering are greed, anger, and ignorance. 👉
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👉 In Buddhism, the cause of human suffering is considered to be one's own bonnō, and the path to liberation and nirvana has been sought by grasping and overcoming the causes of bonnō. 👉
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Bonnō, or kleshas, in Buddhist tenet, are mental states that disturb and trouble the mind and body, hindering wisdom, and there are supposedly 108 of them. 👉
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Property Octopus
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Please watch my instergram full Version this VIDEO. 🙇♂️
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⑧ The existence of Murakami.Flowers extends beyond blockchain.
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⑦ Once the true worth of an artist is established, their work could become extremely expensive.
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⑥ An artist’s true value is put to the test after their death. Therefore, they often cannot be thoroughly evaluated in their lifetime.
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⑤ Art historical relevance of an artwork is set by the artist and their environment after the fact.
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④ In the moment of its creation, the meaning of an artwork is hard to grasp.
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③ Murakami.Flower NFT is art, pure and simple.
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Artist : POM&ME