Basalt Rooms Mr. Gas

Basalt
Rooms

Mr. Gas

Freight
Freight
13 Works on Cardboard
2025
GasWarriors
GasWarriors
248 Works
2021–23
Basalt IRL
Basalt IRL
9 Works — Acrylic on Canvas, Hologram
2023
SimPunks
SimPunks
100 3D Digital Portraits
2021
Ghost Hardware
Ghost Hardware
4 Works — Video
2022
Rvckfender
Rvckfender
12 Works — Digital
2022
Based Ghosts
Based Ghosts
7 Digital Paintings
2024
FLOOR — Artist Publication

FLOOR

ISBN 978-1-0684630-0-6
Limited edition of 50

Wire-bound artist publication with die-cut cover. A visual essay documenting blockchain culture from inside its most volatile period — community language, system errors, and digital economies collaged into and around the artwork itself. Published by Basalt.

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Basalt Editions
Basalt Editions
Digital Sculpture — 2022
The Basalt Rooms
The Basalt Rooms
Virtual Gallery — 2023
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GasWarriors

248 Works — 2021–2023

A sustained body of digital portraits born from Ethereum's gas wars — the volatile period when transaction costs made participation itself an act of endurance. Over two years the project expanded into an evolving mythology: each phase responding to market crashes, community fractures, and the strange new rituals of decentralised culture. Loose, improvised brushwork replaces pristine digital imagery throughout. The visual language draws from graffiti, street art, and the urgency of painting made in real time.

Phases
The Warriors
50 Pieces — 2021

The original portraits. Painted during the first wave of gas fee volatility, each character emerged from the chaos of live minting — the cost of making the work encoded in the urgency of its execution.

The Survivors
25 Pieces — 2021

Forged in the aftermath of the July 2021 market collapse. A new breed of character — harder, more weathered — painted in direct response to the moment the speculative floor fell away.

The Ancestors
50 Pieces

Spirits from past ages summoned to give the tribe new strength. The project reaches backward — constructing a lineage and mythology that extends beyond the immediate moment of blockchain culture.

The Legends
19 Pieces

Composite figures — two warriors fused into a single, elevated form. Characters that transcend their individual origins through combination.

The Shadows
16 Pieces

Mutated and enigmatic clones — familiar characters returned through distortion. The uncanny doubles that emerge when digital identity is copied, corrupted, and reconstituted.

The Marauders
25 Pieces

A divergent species arriving from outside — outsiders bringing new visual language and energy to the existing mythology. The project opens its borders.

The Secret Order
8 Pieces

A stealth crew from beyond the veil. Figures that exist at the threshold of visibility — the project's most elusive characters.

The Veterans
9 Pieces

Commemorating sustained commitment. Portraits made for those who remained through the full duration — endurance as a form of loyalty.

The Icons
Limited Series

The royalty. Figures that have accumulated the full mythology — every phase, every variant, every weapon — condensed into singular, authoritative portraits.

Extensions
The Glitches
950 Pieces

Mass-produced fragments and visual noise — the residue of the GasWarriors universe. Quantity as material, repetition as commentary.

GasGear
Weapon Pieces

The armoury. Objects and accessories that exist alongside the characters — the material culture of a fictional tribe.

Open Editions
7 Pieces — 2023

Editions released beyond the core series — burn rewards and open mints that extended the GasWarriors universe into new formats and distribution models.

GasWarriors Meta
VRM Avatars — 2023

The characters translated into three dimensions. Wearable virtual avatars that carry the GasWarriors identity into spatial and embodied digital environments.

Physical Works
Acrylic on Canvas — 2023

GasWarriors rendered in paint. The digital character translated into physical media — acrylic and gold leaf on canvas.

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Basalt IRL

9 Works — Acrylic on Canvas, Hologram — 2023

Digital identity made physical. This series navigates the space between online avatars and embodied selfhood — animation aesthetics rendered in paint, layered with the residue of digital interface elements. The virtual leaks into the real.

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SimPunks

100 3D Digital Portraits — 1500 × 1500 px — 2021

A cross-section of collective memory from an interconnected, media-saturated society. Through a process of distilling shape, form, colour, and texture, SimPunks recasts digital identities as something both recognisable and uncannily new — playful yet incisive commentary on the commodification of the self.

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Ghost Hardware

Digital Landscapes — 2022

A gateway to our digital past. Meticulously crafted landscapes that bring forth the echoes of shared digital heritage — internet folklore, retro gaming, and the spectral afterlife of obsolete technology. Each piece challenges the assumption that our digital history simply disappears.

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Rvckfender

12 Works — Digital — 2022

The vernacular as the profound. This collection converts the seemingly trivial into potent commentary, blurring the boundary between meme culture and meaningful critique. Some works employ AI as a tool, testing the boundaries of authorship and the speed of cultural response.

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Based Ghosts

7 Digital Paintings — 2024

A commentary on the contemporary digital art landscape, capturing the essence of various digital eras and subcultures through a playful yet thought-provoking lens.

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Freight

13 Works — Acrylic, Spray Paint on Cardboard — 2025

Everything arrives on something. Freight marks the infrastructure before it disappears — pattern, figure, and bone applied to surfaces that were already in motion. The ground gives way. The image doesn't.

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