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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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👉 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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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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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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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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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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9. As such, the roadmap I am making may be hard to comprehend, and you may end up with question marks floating above your heads, or worse, some of you may erupt in irritation. You may ask: “Who do you think you are?”
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11. Vision and values
Murakami.Flowers is being activated upon the system of Superflat, a theory that artist Takashi Murakami put forth in 2000. Superflat refers to the cultural concept generated in Japan in the 77 years since its overwhelming defeat in the Pacific War. 👉
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👉The concept stand in opposition to Pop. Superflat refers to the aesthetic concept of social construction by the defeated: Japan, which cannot institute a structure in which the victor defines the righteousness of society👉
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👉 in its post-war cultural structure, has instead established an anti-pyramidal hierarchy. 👉
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👉At the root of the narrative formation in Japanese manga, anime, and "light novels" is this seemingly negative sense of never being able to fully endorse the winner. 👉
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In June 2020, I, Takashi Murakami, decided to discontinue the production of my film Jellyfish Eyes Part 2 in order to avert bankruptcy of my company, Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. The project that had been in the works since 2012 was halted for the time being.👉
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👉but I wanted to share the news here that we are now hopeful we can finally restart the project. 🌸
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I intend to create my NFT art based on the method that I believe, in the long run, will let my work survive through in the future art world 100 or 200 years from now,👉
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👉by extending the skills that I have already cultivated to survive on the frontlines of the art market for over 30 years.🌸
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13. Physical world Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., which is producing M.F, have worked in the past in the real world creating artworks, sculptures, CGI live-action films, TV-series-style animations, etc., and in the world of luxury fashion by collaborating with famous and powerful brands.
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👉 I would like to create work with the theme of bridging between this worldview and the digital world.🌸
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14. A bridge between
In December, 2022, I am planning to release a portable game with an LCD monitor. In addition, I plan to start developing and producing online and physical games.
I am also planning to activate events in the real-world art community as mentioned earlier.👉
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👉 I believe that M.F will also spread to exhibitions in art venues around the world.🌸
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15. Ecosystem
The art world operates as an ecosystem entirely different from those of stocks and commodities. It is a cultural synthesis and marketplace with a huge scale of its own.👉
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👉As it is already trading NFT art and is operating with the DAO-like worldview, I believe it is M.F’s mission to connect it with those who inhabit the worlds of NFT and DAO. 🌸
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16. Events
In early summer of 2022, I will have an exhibition at Gagosian Madison Avenuee @Gagosian . It involves a surprise collaboration, as well as presentations of physical paintings and sculptures of M.F.👉
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👉I hope to create opportunities for people to encounter in person through salons and club events on that occasion. I so wish I could go into more details now…!🌸
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And now, here’s the first version of our pictorial roadmap.
We completed it a few days ago and are still updating it little by little, but this is basically how it looks.
I have also been posting the first version of the 16-item text roadmap on the M.F Instagram page.👉
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👉I will summarize all these again and plan to post the details of the sale of works, among other things, on M.F’s page in the coming days.
I have also started sending out my mail magazine yesterday to those who have signed up.👉
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Artist : POM&ME