MINTFACE TOKENIZED ART

2021 - 2025

MINTFACE ART PROVENANCE

All artworks are tokenized on blockchains. Tokens create art ownership rights.Rights are transferrable between counterparties without needing a gallery.Tokenized art represents a significant innovation in how works are created, catalog'ed and traded.

MINTFACE | ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS 2025

hand-painted flowers bloom in liminal space.painting / AI / AR
22x 1/1s
view on opensea↗

MINTFACE | PATRIMORA 2025

Patrimora replays the delayed attempts of presence.generative art
1/1/469 editions
minting at patrimora.com↗

MINTFACE | TWO BURDENS 2024

The inner and outer burdens we all carry.painting
36x 1/1s
view on twoburdens.com↗

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MINTFACE | ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS 2025

hand-painted flowers that bloom in liminal space.painting / AI / AR
22x 1/1s
view on opensea↗

painting
artist paintings as source material for AI

artificial flowers shows optimism in an AI prompted future, while also signalling a potential loss of creative autonomy, as AI becomes a collaborative partner. each artificial flower was painted until I was happy the work was finished... then asked AI to show what it saw, using the painting as its source material.AI handed back its vision for the finality of piece, which is then tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain for animation permanence. collectors acquired the final digital work, that fuse both the hand painted flowers by MintFace with the artistic aspirations of large language models.the physical painting 'source material' becomes a trigger for the tokenized artwork to play. viewers standing in front of the painting experience both the artists work and AI's work simultaneously, comparing and contrasting the two, in an attempt to decide who is the student and who is the master.

MINTFACE | TWO BURDENS 2024

The inner and outer burdens we all carry.painting
36x 1/1s
view on twoburdens.com↗

two burdens borrows the subtractive process involved in the pixels of recursive mind (2023), and applies it to painting. the surface is worked over and over, adding, subtracting, adding, subtracting, until an intensity presents itself.I was deeply influenced by richter's later works with one key difference. richter sought to remove all human involvement through his mechanical left to right squeegee application. My mindset is more active than indifferent during the application and thus there is intermediation between thought and application of the paint.paintings were acquired by collectors around the world via NFTs that allowed their owners to optionally claim the physical painting. many of these works are now hanging on the walls of collectoors in Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia and USA.two burdens exhibition was debuted at NFT NYC 2024 and now is exhibited at the line in New Zealand

MINTFACE | PATRIMORA 2025

Patrimora replays the delayed attempts of presence.generative art
1/1/469 editions
minting at patrimora.com↗

patrimora is inspired by 'senbazuru' 千羽鶴, the folding of 1000 origami cranes. sadako sasaki, a child survivor of hiroshima attempted the feat before dying of leukaemia. the story stayed with me from primary school. I wanted to memorialise my son (tricksta) growing up without a father, through the motif of cranes...often thought to be a symbol of long life.the name of the collection is 'patrimora'; a word mintface coined to mean 'a legacy or inheritance that is delayed in its realization, often due to historical, cultural, or generational factors.'

MINTFACE | RECURSIVE MIND 2023

endless thought patterns looping to infinity.illustration in photoshop
13x 1/1s
view on rrrecursive.com↗ or gamma↗

recursive mind pushes pixels until they break. what remains becomes the art. each work is a study in deletion, in removal and sitting with with is left. there is a kind of peace in exploring what's left after the pressure subsides.no ai, all hand drawn in photoshop, a tool I have used almost non stop since I was 13. recursive mind sat in a folder for two years from 2023 until 2025, before I decided to inscribe them as ordinals on the bitcoin blockchain. an extraordinarily expensive endeavour that guarantees the art's longevity in line with Bitcoin's longevity.

roads and rivers breaks free of the single location constraint that was imposed in creating the geodetic moments collection. initially, the plan was to photograph geodetic markers throughout new zealand as further location markers for my son to find me through. geodetic markers are symbolic to only new zealand. however the locations of these around the country turned out to often be in remote places, private property and I decided to broaden the creative concept.the idea of treasure and 'x marks the spot' came to mind and the aerial cross section of a road and river seemed like the ideal aesthetic to speak the concept into life. I got in my car and drove around the north island of new zealand, photographing the bridges that I knew would look great, along with many more that were discovered along the way. Post pandemic there was little traffic and it felt absolutely freeing after being locked up for so long.the collection was exhibited at the line in September 2025 and featured in the nz herald. 7 of the 36 bridges photographed in the series were washed away in a cyclone in february 2023. the collection sparked many conversations about the memories people had of crossing the bridges, where they were going, who they were seeing and why it mattered.

geodetic moments is a study of a single location at the end of 2021 to express my own mental state (ie: looking forwards, looking backwards) at the time through NFT metadata. it was post the pandemic, I felt stuck, aimless, yet fully plugged in to the NFT crypto scene.at the same time, I wanted to create a record on the blockchain of my physical location during that period of time, that one day in the future, my son Joseph could find and perhaps go looking for. if he could find the geodetic marker, he could probably find me.I wanted to get back to taking photographs for the pleasure of it, and pull myself up by my own bootstraps. Each day I would walk up pukekura hill at various times of the day and night. after taking a photograph, I recorded the direction faced, the time of day and notable objects. I would then go back home and mint the photograph along with the metadata of the visit that became traits for the photograph. these traits became searchable within the collection; a new phenomenon with nfts in 2021.creating a collection of 100 was inspired from two sources. justin aversano's twin flame collection, that became the standard collection size many photographers copied; and secondly, the 100 interviews I produced to research and publish 100% Kiwi Business.

MINTFACE | GEODETIC HOME 2025

cultural object, co-signed by gallery visitors.paint on timber sculpture
15 editions
view on opensea↗ | SOLD OUT

geodetic sculpture was exhibited on the opening of the line gallery in may 2025. visitors were invited to mark make on the sculpture. over the weeks of the exhibition, signatures were added, and art drawn directly on to the pillars and panels of the sculpture.visitors would feel comfortable standing around the sculpture, in a similar way to pausing at a New Zealand summit, where geodetic markers are often present. new conversations were had. I got a fresh understanding of who the community was, and everyone got introduced to more art.signatures varied from frens, family, mayor hopefuls, kids after school, officer of the court, tattoo artist, gang affiliates, a chef, tourists, farmers, security officers, businesspeople and fellow artists.in a time where algorithms divide, the geodetic sculpture brought people together on a single surface and reminded us how to speak in person again.

ROADS & RIVERS EXHIBITION (SEP 2025)

Roads are for travelling. Rivers go with the flow. When the two overlap, you get to decide which way you go.photography
36x 1/1s
view on opensea↗ | SOLD OUT

GEODETIC SCULPTURE EXHIBITION (JUL 2025)

cultural artifact, co-signed by gallery visitors.paint on timber sculpture
15 editions
view on opensea↗ | SOLD OUT

MINTFACE SHORT BIO

180 words

MintFace is a cryptoartist and founder of The Line, working from New Zealand while making work for a global cryptoart audience.The practice moves between painting, photography, AI collaboration, and on-chain editions... all treated as a single narrative told through different instruments...and unified by an insistence on connection as both subject and method.Since 2023, painting has become the anchor. An immediate, bodily medium valued for what cannot be forecast, where a work begins with feeling rather than idea and is resolved only when a state of stillness appears.The blockchain functions as legacy infrastructure... a way of recording personal history with a timestamp to help future generations navigate their own desire for identity.MintFace resists typecast aesthetics in favour of an umbrella story. The output is organised as canon and experiments, where the canon holds the inner charge of the work and experiments open new doors in public view.Across both, the aim is restrained and difficult: to offer a moment of peace suspended in time, and a contemporary container for what cannot be neatly resolved.

MINTFACE LONG BIO

623 words

MintFace is a cryptoartist and founder of The Line, working from New Zealand while making work for a global cryptoart audience. The practice moves between painting, photography, AI collaboration, and on-chain editions... as a single narrative told through different instruments. MintFace’s work is unified by one obsession: connection.Reconnection
How can connection become a time capsule of meaning? How can the stories of individual lives and moments can be synthesised into a collective force that feels real enough to hold?Private Engine
At the center of the practice is a private engine that remains intentionally opaque in public... an attempt to move from an unending grief toward acceptance and calm as surrogate for the impossibility of 'working through' the situation in any neat way. The work does not paper over tragedy, instead it asks the question... can the self grow beyond absence, and can art become a tokenized container sturdy enough to carry what can’t be resolved?Anti-Typecast
This is why MintFace refuses to be typecast. A singular palette or recognisable 'signature look' is not the point... it would flatten the story into a lookbook. Instead, MintFace treats medium as a set of tools in service of an umbrella narrative...each work another attempt at resonance... another doorway into the decade long corridor.Painting the Base Layer
Since 2023, painting has become the anchor. It’s where the artist begins with a feeling rather than an idea, working until stillness appears...often shaped by long contemplative hours in the gallery environment and by conversations with visitors that reset the emotional weather of the day. Paint is valued precisely because it isn’t easily forecastable. Paint speak in the moment, in the body, in front of the panel. The aim is simple and difficult: that a viewer standing before the work can feel what the artist felt while making it...a direct transfer of state.Connection Architecture
The blockchain is the future legacy infrastructure. It doesn’t replace the painting; it lets the painting live in time. It allows the work to travel, to be present across locations and to be revisited later with the digital clarity of provenance and timestamp.Canon or Experiment
MintFace’s output is organised internally into canon and experiments. Canon works are those that speak directly to the artist’s inner state while also carrying a recognisable 'crypto-era movement' ...a sense that the work could only exist in this time, with these tools, within this cultural context. Experiments exist to open shut doors... to test what’s possible, to discover new paths, to create shelter and momentum for other artists, and sometimes to generate unexpected beauty from strange constraints.Whakapapa - The Line of Descent
The same 'connection architecture' scales up into The Line: a physical and digital home base for tokenized art in New Zealand. Born from frustration with collector centered spaces that focus on ownership and flexxing, The Line is designed as an artist centered beacon, where meaning, context, and creative possibility lead. Visitors enter expecting a familiar white-cube experience, then encounter small ruptures: prices in ETH, titles that bend expectation, and works that shift from static painting into living motion through AI and AR.The Goal
The goal is to unlock curiosity and leave people feeling that possibilities for themself have expanded, and that they might create something too. From the edge of the world, MintFace builds a practice that is both intimate and public: personal truth as a quiet undercurrent; broader societal themes as the visible surface. The work asks viewers and collectors to slow down, to look longer, and to consider that the most radical thing an artwork can offer in a networked age is not spectacle...but a moment of peace suspended in time.

MINTFACE | ART AVAILABILITY 2026

most art is vaulted with collectoors.132x 1/1s and 316x editions are all that is available (as at Jan 2026) from the last 5 years of minting art:Artworks are available to purchase at the marketplaces below:Geodetic Moments (2021)
MintFace genesis photography collection
14x 1/1s @ 1 eth each
buy on opensea↗10k Project (2022)
documents the 2021 pfp mania
1/1 10.0 eth
buy on foundation↗Geodetica (2022)
1st large format Midjourney AI collection
7x 1/1s 0.5 eth ea
buy on opensea↗Roads & Rivers (2022)
1st post lockdown collection
21x 1/1s @ 0.5 eth
16x editions @ 0.2 eth
buy on opensea↗Geodetic World
expanding the geodetic internationally
48x 1/1s 0.3 eth eaTwo Burdens
*genesis painting collection
17x 1/1s 1 eth ea
includes physical painting & shipping
buy on opensea↗Recursive Mind (2025)
1st collection on BTC
13 x 0.018 BTC = 0.234 BTC
buy on gamma↗Patrimora (2025)
1st generative art collection
290x mints left @ 0.03 eth = 8.7 eth
buy on patrimora↗FROGDNA (2025)
1st FakeRare submission
10x @ 0.1 eth
buy on a dispenser↗ or
buy on opensea↗Artificial Flowers (2025)
1st hybrid painting+AI
7 x 0.69 eth
2 x 1 eth
2 x 0.4 eth
includes physical painting & shipping
buy on opensea↗