{"attributes":[{"trait_type":"Artist","value":"Parker Ito"},{"trait_type":"13_right_objects","value":"demon"},{"trait_type":"01_bg_bottom","value":"black_white_checkered"},{"trait_type":"02_rug","value":"rug_4"},{"trait_type":"figure_no_horse","value":"pony_girl"},{"trait_type":"background_figures","value":"crucifix"},{"trait_type":"no_couch_figures","value":"jesus"},{"trait_type":"no_couch_shadow","value":"lighter"},{"trait_type":"Artwork","value":"The Pilgrim’s Living Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble"},{"trait_type":"04_bg_top","value":"bg_21"},{"trait_type":"11_middle_objects","value":"demon_2"},{"trait_type":"12_left_objects","value":"bible"},{"trait_type":"noise","value":"noise_2"}],"description":"*I used to live in an apartment building in the Yucca Corridor of Hollywood—a tall structure on the\ncorner of Whitley and Franklin. Kenneth Anger lived there for most of the time I was there, until\nhe was eventually kicked out. I’d see him now and then in the elevator or lobby. We barely\ninteracted, but once he told me, “No one pays for your dinners when you’re old.” He was cranky.\nMy girlfriend at the time wanted to befriend him, but I was wary—I’d heard stories about him\nhexing people. At one point he tried to buy her socks and claimed he had a wife and child living\nin Hawaii.* \\\n*That apartment was the center of my creative world for years. I made a number of paintings\nthere, most notably a series of still lifes featuring my dining room table with the Capitol Records\nBuilding in the background. Over time, construction projects transformed the skyline entirely.\nViews like that are rare in LA unless you're in the Hills.* \\\n*One large painting I made during that time was titled* P, *based on Albrecht Dürer’s engraving* St.\nEustace. *In my version, I’m the central figure, walking through a reimagined Hollywood\nlandscape. That painting—and a black-and-white companion—would be shown at the\nHollywood Roosevelt a couple years later.* P *was originally intended as part of a larger series\ninspired by Dürer’s masterworks:* St. Jerome in His Study, Melencolia I, *and* Knight, Death, and\nthe Devil. *I had also read about an unfinished engraving attributed to Dürer called* Crucifixion in\nOutline— *I wanted to finish it, to make it mine.*\n*When Leyla asked me to propose a project for Verse, two ideas came to mind. One was to do\nmy own crucifixion NFT, based on the unfinished Dürer piece. The other was to build a work\naround the couch in my old apartment. I had already painted two versions of myself sitting on\nthat couch—those were the only works I made that looked into the apartment rather than out. In\nthose paintings I’m sitting on the couch looking into a mirror, inspired by a Balthus painting with\na young girl in the same pose. Each of my versions would include one of my cats: Chelsea,\nMarshmallow, Rascal, Carrot Cake (Cakey), Babs, Chicklet, Puttanesca, Cheeto, and Angel\nWing Begonia. I only completed paintings of Carrot Cake and Puttanesca.*\n*It’s been about a year since I released* ParkerIto.net, *my first NFT project on Ethereum. Since\nthen, I’ve launched three collections on Solana:* Collection 2 for Solana, *a shadow version of my\nfirst ETH project;* Horses?2, *a rapid-fire homage to the* Horses? *Solana collection; and* Drilady, *a\nPFP collection inspired by* Drifella, *which itself was inspired by* Mifella, *which was inspired by*\nMilady.\n*Before* ParkerIto.net, *I had never used tools like HashLips and had barely experimented with AI\nin my work. HashLips was originally built to pump out clean, normie-ready PFPs—but the\nSolana avant-garde (aka Gay NFT) hijacked it, pushing it toward* traitmaxxing: *chaotic,\nover-layered, Dada-by-default collages. This approach has been completely inspiring to me.\nOver the past year, I’ve developed a kind of mastery with these Hashlips—not technical\nmastery, but something more intuitive. A workflow that matches the way my brain works. I guess\nyou could call that a voice, an aesthetic language.*\n\n*Now that language is more ripened, it brings me to this new project with Verse:* The Pilgrim’s\nLiving Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble. *It’s really an amalgamation of everything\nI’ve done so far. A crucifixion scene with my couch. I’d still call it “traitmaxxed,” but it’s very\nspecific, more refined and distilled. This time, I’m trying to create a clean 3D space, as opposed\nto the flat, jagged, spaces typical of the traitmaxxed aesthetic. The entire image is in one-point\nperspective. I’ve had to draw shadows to unify the lighting—it actually feels like painting, like\nlearning about light in real time.* \\\n*This isn’t a PFP collection. But there’s a PFP collection embedded inside it. The collection has\nhorses, it has knights, it has Drilady,—like Russian dolls stacked within each other. It’s a nested\nsystem. An NFT inside an NFT. A* Gesamtkunstwerk *for the blockchain.* \\\n*As I sit here writing this, I discover that* Crucifixion in Outline *wasn’t actually by Dürer. It was a\npastiche, collaged together from his drawings by someone working in his style. That feels right.*\n\nParker Ito","hash":"0x94091140b8ed5d12ce15acc3a170b762a10cca88fcea139ccdf2f5b88b67d4b0","image":"https://0prod.infura-ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeiaqyoofl27zyx4ky2vha5bplnldsplxao33c4eiwyexdcpyyxt5lq","ipfs":"https://0prod.infura-ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeiaqyoofl27zyx4ky2vha5bplnldsplxao33c4eiwyexdcpyyxt5lq","license":"","name":"The Pilgrim’s Living Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble #67"}