The practice,
project by project.
A visual chronology of releases, editions, exhibitions, books, and the systems built around them.
2019
2020
The Daily Manifest
The first VV product. A single-page system for planning your day and auditing your time.
The course library opens
The Fundamentals of Value, Build Once, Sell Twice, How to Visualize Value, and The Permissionless Apprentice turn the public practice into 184 lessons across four courses.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Illustrations for Eric Jorgenson’s book translate Naval Ravikant’s ideas on wealth and happiness into a visual language read around the world.
2021
2023
Checks
Onchain, composable, collector-curated. 16,031 editions. This artwork may or may not be notable.
Opepen Edition
Open-source art protocol. 16,000 tokens evolving through community consensus.
Checks Elements
152 monoprint and token pairs exploring elemental consensus. Auctioned at Christie's.
Trademark
Generative art built entirely from the ® symbol. Created with ChatGPT 3.5.
Signature
The victory burnout, rendered as generative art. 200 pieces with Red Bull Racing.
Oviators
Limited-edition collectible eyewear. Debuted at Art Basel Miami.
2024
Work
Silver sculpture combining a 750-year-old Assay ledger with the Ethereum blockchain.
Latent
80 AI-generated digital negatives translated into silver gelatin prints. Shown at Paris Photo.
1 of 1 of ?
The paradox of artificial scarcity. Sold as both a unique work and 35,262 open editions.
2025
Self Checkout
A pay-what-you-want installation that turned an art fair's hidden economics into the artwork. 5,837 receipts, $114,706 profit.
Gas Wars
Networked generative artwork inspired by survivorship bias. 500 combat simulations on Art Blocks.
Lemonade Stand
Nine content coins exploring permissionless markets through lemonade stand imagery.
Full Set
27 networked editions with a consensus trigger that permanently transformed the collection.
Hardware
Exposing the fragility of physical authenticity systems by turning their visual cues into deliberate fictions.
The Book of Elon Musk
A third illustrated book with Eric Jorgenson, following The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and The Anthology of Balaji.
2026
Work, Luck, Play
Three works examining how value is produced, how chance is engineered, and what happens when those ideas collide: Work, Luck, and Play.
Economy of Words
2,048 hand-made word cards. After the sale, each collector chose between the physical card and a synthetic twin on Ethereum.
Wrappers
Eighty torn packs ranked by how far each is ripped open, then sorted into six stages of a market coming apart. All wrapper, no underlying.
Hallucination
A machine invented an artwork and reported it sold for 5 ETH. The title was taken literally, the image made afterward, and the false record became its cause.