{"id":4996,"date":"2025-12-02T16:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motoi-works.com\/en\/?page_id=4996"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:54:18","slug":"digital-nft","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.motoi-works.com\/en\/works\/digital-nft","title":{"rendered":"Digital \/ NFT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have newly released two NFT collections as part of my ongoing exploration of new forms of expression. These works are positioned as an extension of the salt installations I have been creating for many years, and they are a quiet attempt to expand my ongoing themes of memory and time into the digital realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Inevitable Expression Born from the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At the core of my practice is a cycle in which I draw large patterns in salt within a space and, at the end of the exhibition, return that salt to the sea \u2013 a process guided by the idea of \u201ccontinuing to create in order not to forget.\u201d<\/em>
However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, all opportunities to create salt installations suddenly disappeared. Under those circumstances, what emerged were flat works that I could make alone in the studio, and NFT artworks. Although I originally trained as an oil painter and had occasionally produced paintings, working digitally with a tablet was a completely new challenge for me. Once I actually dove into it, I discovered the same \u201clayers of time\u201d that I had pursued in my salt installations, and I became deeply drawn to the medium\u2019s potential.
The NFT works presented here are a series in which the linear structures of my long-standing motifs\u2014such as \u201clabyrinths\u201d and \u201cspirals\u201d\u2014are treated as \u201clayers of light.\u201d Unlike physical salt works or conventional flat paintings, they offer a new way of viewing, and they are also an attempt to quietly leave traces of memory within digital space. Even if a physical work disappears at the end of an exhibition, it can continue to exist, connected within a virtual space. I create these works in the hope of exploring this \u201canother way for memory to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staying in Time \u2013 Digital Drawing<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my solo exhibition in Portland, I built a terrain-like screen across the entire floor using salt and projected a digital drawing onto it. The images shown here are views from that exhibition: on the left, visitors standing around the salt screen, and on the right, a close-up of the projected drawing. In the darkened space, viewers slowly walked around the work, sometimes bending down, watching the subtle movements of light and lines as if overlapping them with their own memories.
You can see more of this atmosphere in a video documenting the installation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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