“I am constantly thinking about whether the value of my work can effectively be sustained for as long as possible after my death, and that is the only thing in my mind as I continue to create artworks; I live to create.”
— Takashi Murakami, “Community”, murakamiflowers.kaikaikiki.com
The losers also have their arguments, as well as their ideas of beauty. I hope to visualize such a landscape in this project.
— “Vision and Values”, murakamiflowers.kaikaikiki.com
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. 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. 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.
Project description, murakamiflowers.kaikaikiki.com20,000 next-gen Avatars, by RTFKT and Takashi Murakami.
Collection description, OpenSeaThe primary standalone collection (Murakami Flowers Seed, 1,156 works) trades at a 5.0 ETH floor — a figure sustained by a four-decade career rather than a single NFT cycle. CloneX, the collaboration with RTFKT in which Murakami contributed artwork and character design, carries the larger raw volume (422,248 ETH, 99,521 sales) and a lower per-token floor (0.25 ETH); its scale reflects RTFKT's marketplace presence and the 19,764-token supply as much as Murakami's contribution. The two collections have different market identities.
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, by extending the skills that I have already cultivated to survive on the frontlines of the art market for over 30 years.
“Community”, murakamiflowers.kaikaikiki.comI am considering the 'meta' of metaverse in relation to the 'meta' of metafiction. The 'meta' of metafiction seems to be a structure that raises questions about the relationship between fiction and reality by deliberately (self-referentially) making the reader aware that it is a fiction, but it reminds me of a nestling structure, a matryoshka-like structure of a story, and that meta structure is the reality of 'meta' in my mind. In that sense, I am hoping to create M.F as a meta structure of my history as a painter.
“Metaverse”, murakamiflowers.kaikaikiki.comAlfred watches the floor, sales and new listings on Murakami Flowers Seed — and tells you when something changes.
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