Since my debut, my art has focused on the relationship between the United States and Japan. To embark on my NFT journey, I decided to start with the flowers, which are at the center of my creative expression. Why did you want to start your NFT journey with the flowers? Murakami.Flowers uses your well-known flower motif in pixelated form, with its roots in your early nihonga nature paintings. And that’s why I wanted to step into the field myself. The sensation I had in the process made me see yet another cognitive revolution in contemporary art.
From there, I went on to try to understand CryptoPunks and the like. When I heard the news about Beeple’s work selling for $75 million at an auction, I got curious about NFTs.
NFT art inherently expands the cognitive field. What truly matters is whether or not the work is proposing a whole new cognitive field within art history. I realized that, for the evaluation of a piece of art, superficial qualities or themes are not that important (though of course, they can still get people interested). These experiences helped me understand the essence of evaluating artworks. In both cases, I couldn’t comprehend them at first, but later, once I was able to digest the concepts, I felt a cognitive revolution take place. I remember seeing Robert Ryman’s white-on-white paintings before encountering Jeff Koons’ porcelain Michael Jackson and Bubbles sculpture at Sonnabend Gallery. The occasions that opened my eyes to contemporary art-the moments of epiphany-happened when I was an art university student.
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