To create the works in this collaboration with the Gallery of Digital Assets, James and his studio are re-investigating the five sacred geometries known as the Platonic solids—the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron and dodecahedron—each of which embodies the respective elemental powers of fire, earth, wind, the water, and the void.
Rather than presenting his iconic Platonic Solid sculptural forms as static digital imagery, James has not only animated his NFTs—from gold framed icosahedrons electrified by white light and floating over fiery seascapes to steel framed cubes lit with gradient LEDS hovering against a crisp desertscape—he’s also “gamified” them.
While collectors can acquire each of the five platonic solid forms as Tier 1 NFTs, they can also choose to “burn” them—literally deleting the tokens from existence—to potentially acquire newer, rarer forms with additional animations that exist in more complicated and emotionally evocative environments. This burning of NFTs is a direct reference to James’s monumental 2008 sculpture, ΚΘ (short for kalos thanatos, or “beautiful death”), which is comprised of the artist’s Ferrari 355 Spider that he doused with gasoline and lit on fire in upstate New York only to encase its charred carcass in a garage-sized infinity box.
July 7th for GODA Mint pass holders only. If any inventory remains there will be an allowlist sale on July 9th for GODA project holders, and friends.
