For over 10 years I have created handcrafted mosaics using tiny tiles cut out of vintage children’s book covers.
Roadmap of sorts
Holders of Tessera NFTs get a special place in the Tessera universe. Presale, airdrop, discount on commissions (resellers?) and print on demand. Tessera Titans (hold at least 8 Genesis pieces) have a seat at the Titans Table, to exchange ideas, get more perks and higher discounts.
Q2 ’24
- Delivering the genesis collection. Aiming for 5 pieces each week besides customs.
- Start minting pieces within the Tessera Gallery collection, an open collection of Tessera art with room for experiments, collabs and commissioned works.
- Doing the groundwork for a small generative collection following the genesis.
Q3 ’24
- New website on tessera.gallery to reflect the expansion of the Tessera universe.
- Mint and airdrop of a small generative collection (tbd). Working on this already. With an airdrop (whitelist) of 1:1 for genesis holders.
- Expanding the Tessera Gallery collection and connections to related art projects on the xrpl and neighbouring chains.
Q1-4 2025
- I have some undisclosed ideas about gamification of the technique of mosaic building. Who knows if it will work. #nopromises
- Building an online (or web3?) one-stop-shop for IRL print-on-demand of Tessera art with priviliged early access and/or discounts for Tessera holders.
- Start developing a large gallery with light filled halls in XSpectar/Metaverse with special access and perks for holders.
Genesis tiles are 25x25mm (1×1″) from vintage children’s book covers.
Any size or material however is possible and will be for future exploration.
Artist
I’m an artist for almost 25 years now, graduated from art school in 2000 (Fine arts, Minerva). I founded my own studio in 2007 focusing mainly on visual and graphic design and furniture design. I started creating mosaics from recycled children’s book covers in 2009, after having used book covers als base material in a range of furniture designs.
My IRL mosaics are handmade one-offs, both commissioned and free work, and are most often put up for sale in galleries and at art fairs. For each handcrafted mosaic I need ±2000 small tiles from real children’s book covers to choose from. These small tiles are handcut and physically filed and subsequently digitally catalogued. Over the course of the last decade I have garnered up to 75.000 small digital files of unique colorful ‘pixels’ of real world pieces of book cover that are inextricably linked to handmade works of art.