The visual history of Bitcoin is being created in real time. Each week, The Weekly Canvas documents another small part of that story. This week we bring you the following featured artworks:
932920 BY MADEX
PHEENIXX BY SWEEDGRAFFIXX
FEATURED ARTWORKS
932920 by Madex
932920 by MADEX, 30 x 40″ Hand Painted. Multi Layer Mixed Media on Canvas, Resin Seal.
“The piece is built on a base formed from pages of The Creature from Jekyll Island. It features multiple layers of Bitcoin content and philosophical text from masterworks such as Atlas Shrugged (pages from a special copy gifted to MADEX by Francis Pouliot in 2018). Embedded in the backside of the work is a funded Opendime holding 100,000 sats, secured to a MADEX vanity address.
Stretched on 1.5-inch stretcher bars, the base canvas has traveled from studio to studio since 2016.
Years of work, mistakes, iterations, and returns live in the surface.
The Guy Fawkes symbol runs through the piece, alongside hidden details and Easter eggs drawn from Bitcoin lore and the well-known story V for Vendetta.
The longer you live with this painting, the more you will discover.
At the center is a tactical, Spartan-style warrior. Laser eyes locked on the mission. This figure represents the mindset required to defend truth and destroy corruption.”
~ MADEX
Details from 932920:
The Pheenixx by Sweedgraffixx
“This unique piece was painted in over 150 hours with meticulous detail. According to legend, the phoenix embodies new beginnings, rebirth, and the start of a new era. Bitcoin, as the purest and most truthful element of our present, stands on the same level as the phoenix.
The background depicts the Matrix, the simulation of the world in which we live. The phoenix, representing the Bitcoin network, tears back the veil of delusion, and a Bitcoin sun anchored in the rocks marks an unimaginably secure construct of consensus. The Swiss woman represents the sovereignty of the 21 million.”
The Pheenixx by Sweedgraffixx, 39 × 39”, Acrylic, Posca, NBQ Montana Colors on Canvas.
Work in progress
Work in progress
Detail from The Pheenixx
ARTIST QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“i swear eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
defending freedom through art and cryptography.
– freedom to transact
– freedom to defend
– freedom to communicate
break from your programming – seek truth
there will ₿ a future, Anon ⚔️🏴☠️”
~ MADEX
Thank you for being on this journey with us.
Onward,
Asanoha
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