New Zealand — 2021–2025

Mint
Face

As we live on the edge of believability,
MintFace conjures placeholders
to guide our way.

Painting · AI · Generative · Photography · Illustration · Sculpture
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Everglade Sunset — Self
Everglade Sunset — Self — Painting
Biography

MintFace works across painting, photography, generative code, and artificial intelligence — using each medium as a different pressure applied to the same question: what remains after you subtract the unnecessary?

Based in New Zealand, MintFace was among the early artists to tokenize work on the Ethereum blockchain, establishing a practice where ownership, provenance, and physical presence coexist without hierarchy. Collectors in Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia and the United States hold paintings that began as NFTs and arrived, eventually, as objects on walls.

The work is deeply personal — structured around a father's desire to leave a trail of evidence: paintings, geodetic coordinates, metadata, inscriptions on Bitcoin. Things that might one day be found.

Practice
Multi-disciplinary — Painting, Photography, Generative Art, AI, Illustration
Active Since
2021
Exhibitions
NFT NYC 2024, The Line Gallery, New Zealand
Collections Held
Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, United States
Blockchain
Ethereum (ERC-721 / ERC-1155), Bitcoin Ordinals

Collections
2021–2025

15 Collections · 500+ Works
2025
01 / 15

Artificial
Flowers

Painting / AI / Augmented Reality

Hand-painted flowers worked to completion, then offered to AI as source material. The machine returns its vision — displayed on the physical canvas via augmented reality. It asks the only question that matters: who is the student, and who is the master?

Each physical painting becomes a trigger for the tokenized work to play. Collectors standing before the canvas experience both visions simultaneously, comparing and contrasting the two.

22 × 1/1
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Daffodil Season
Daffodil Season
Banana Zone
Banana Zone
Flax Feeding Season
Flax Feeding
Re: Growth
Re: Growth
Solar Reaching
Solar Reaching
AR
ACTIVATED
2025
02 / 15

Patrimora

Generative Art — On-chain

Inspired by senbazuru — the Japanese tradition of folding 1,000 origami cranes. Named for a word MintFace coined: patrimora — a legacy delayed in its realization. A memorial to a son growing up without a father, through the motif of cranes.

Cranes are thought to represent long life. The name means an inheritance delayed by history, culture, or generation — something owed, not yet received.

1/1 + 469 editions
patrimora.com Mint
Patrimora — full collection
Traits: Twombly · Rothko · Pollock · Mintface · Tricksta · Firstlady
2024
03 / 15

Two
Burdens

Oil on Canvas — 36 works

The inner and outer burdens we all carry. The surface is worked over and over — adding, subtracting, adding, subtracting — until an intensity presents itself. Influenced by Richter's later squeegee works, but the mindset here is active, not indifferent.

Acquired by collectors in Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia and the USA. Exhibited at NFT NYC 2024 and The Line, New Zealand.

36 × 1/1
twoburdens.com OpenSea
Beyond the Meadow
Beyond the Meadow
Cascade
Cascade
Laceration
Laceration
Salvation
Salvation
The Grotto
The Grotto
Untitled III
Untitled III
2023
04 / 15

Recursive
Mind

Illustration — Photoshop — Bitcoin Ordinals

Endless thought patterns looping to infinity. Pixels pushed until they break. What remains becomes the art — a study in deletion, removal, and sitting with what is left after the pressure finally subsides.

No AI. All hand-drawn in Photoshop since age 13. Inscribed as Ordinals on Bitcoin — an expensive act that binds their longevity to Bitcoin's own.

13 × 1/1
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The Crucible
The Crucible
Lost in Sound
Lost in Sound
Dark Summer
Dark Summer
Day at the Park
Day at the Park
2022
05 / 15

Geodetica

AI — Midjourney — 100 works

Geodetica documents the shortest visual path between human and machine — the geodetic line of creative intent. Each of 100 unique works traces a direct route from imagination to output, without the weight of physical media to negotiate.

Made entirely in Midjourney at a time when the technology was new and the conversation between artist and algorithm felt genuinely uncharted. Sold out.

100 × 1/1 Sold Out
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Strength at its Core
Strength at its Core
Look Around You
Look Around You
A Son Points Something Out
A Son Points Out
Face to Face with a Geodetic Moment
Face to Face
Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon
Geodetica
2022
06 / 15

Roads
& Rivers

Photography — Aerial — North Island, NZ

Roads are for travelling. Rivers go with the flow. When the two overlap, you get to decide which way you go. MintFace drove the North Island of New Zealand — post-pandemic, little traffic, the freedom of open roads — photographing bridges.

Seven of the 36 bridges were washed away in Cyclone Gabrielle, February 2023. The collection sparked conversations about memory, crossing, where people were going and why it mattered. Featured in the NZ Herald.

36 × 1/1 Sold Out
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Bridge #2
Bridge #2
Bridge #5
Bridge #5
Bridge #9
Bridge #9
Bridge #22
Bridge #22
2021
07 / 15

Geodetic
Moments

Photography — Pukekura Hill, Taradale

A study of one location, one hill, walked at different times of day and night throughout 2021. Each photograph is accompanied by metadata — direction faced, time of day, notable objects — recorded permanently on the blockchain.

A record of physical presence, left for a son to find. If he finds the geodetic marker on Pukekura Hill, he can probably find me.

100 × 1/1 Sold Out
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Geodetic Moments #1
#1
Geodetic Moments #23
#23
Geodetic Moments #77
#77
Geodetic Moments #84
#84
Geodetic Moments #87
#87
Geodetic Moments #96
#96
2025
08 / 15

Geodetic
Home

Paint on Timber Sculpture — Cultural Object

A geodetic sculpture exhibited at the opening of The Line Gallery, May 2025. Visitors were invited to mark-make directly on its surface — signatures, drawings, names accumulated over weeks. The structure invited people to pause around it, as one does at a New Zealand summit marker.

In a time where algorithms divide, the geodetic sculpture brought people together on a single surface — and reminded us how to speak in person again.

15 editions Sold Out
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PROVENANCE
Geodetic Home · 1 artwork · 15 editions · Sculpture
0x7b5ccc…ce4
2025 · Ethereum · ERC-1155
Geodetic Home — The Line Gallery 2025
Signed by: frens · family · mayor hopefuls · kids after school
officer of court · tattoo artist · gang affiliates · a chef
tourists · farmers · security officers · businesspeople · artists

Provenance
& Chain Records

All artworks are tokenized. Tokens create transferrable ownership rights — without the need for a gallery.

Collection Year Editions Chain Contract
Artificial Flowers
Neural Painting / AR
 2025 21 × 1/1 Ethereum · ERC-721 0xd64ac5…be90d
FROGDNA
Painting
 2025 1 work · 88 editions Bitcoin · Ordinals FROGDNA
Patrimora
Generative Art
 2025 1/1 + 469 editions Ethereum · ERC-721 0xEabffd…502d8
ID Please
Illustration
 2025 1/1 + 328 editions Ethereum · ERC-721 0x33fd42…7af1
Recursive Mind
Illustration
 2023–25 13 × 1/1 Bitcoin · Ordinals 146688a…b95i0
Two Burdens
Painting
 2024 36 × 1/1 Ethereum · ERC-721 0xe1d1f9…ed09
Geodetic World
Pure AI
 2023 95 × 1/1 Ethereum · ERC-721 0xe16c77…d396
Roads & Rivers
Photography
 2022 36 × 1/1 + 162 ed. Ethereum · ERC-721 0x18bd00…ee67
Geodetic On-Chain
Illustration
 2022 5 works · 2×100 ed. Ethereum · ERC-1155 0x7b5ccc…ce4
Geodetica
Pure AI
 2022 100 × 1/1 · Sold Out Ethereum · ERC-721 0xf6f44f…2933
Geodetic Memory
Photography
 2022 1 work · 823 editions Ethereum · ERC-1155 0xa81f80…979c
Geodetic Illusions
Neural Painting
 2022 87 × 1/1 Ethereum · ERC-721 0x38bae1…6045
Geodetic Moments
Photography
 2021 100 × 1/1 · Sold Out Ethereum · ERC-1155 0x495f94…b7b5e
1/1s on Foundation
Photography
 2021 7 × 1/1 Ethereum · ERC-721 Foundation
Geodetic Home
Sculpture
 2025 1 work · 15 ed. · Sold Out Ethereum · ERC-1155 0x7b5ccc…ce4
City vs Nature
Photography — Genesis
 2021 1 work · 5 editions Ethereum · ERC-1155 Rarible
Exhibition
History