Hardware (2025)

No matter how art is framed, labeled, or verified, its meaning ultimately resides in how it's perceived.

Hardware exposes the fragility of physical authenticity systems by turning their visual cues into deliberate fictions.

Its predecessor, 1988, was a commentary on the tenuousness of physical provenance. Provenance is supposed to establish an artwork's history — its origin, ownership, and value — but it often depends on subjective storytelling and institutional validation. 1988 takes this to its logical extreme by linking an artwork's "origin" to the year of my birth. The name itself references Damien Hirst's practice of backdating artworks to the year they were conceived rather than when they were made.

1988 was distributed as a 3D model that could be projected into physical spaces via augmented reality.

As a final nod to "The Physical Impossibility of Provenance" — 1988, minted on Ethereum Layer 2, is now redeemable for Hardware pieces on Ethereum Layer 1. For each new mint, the cost goes up by one. A maximum supply of 554 pieces. Just pay gas.