Last year, 2022, I attended my first art and NFT event, NFT Show Europe in Valencia, and it was such a great experience; I was a newbie (still I'm) into generative art space and NFTs and the event gave me a lot of energy and good vibes to follow this journey with even more passion. I met a few artists I admired and I had a chance to know the fxhash and tezos community in real life. I was amazed by the generosity of people attending and, at the end of the event, I realized I wanted to give some art of mine to people, as Zancan or Riiis gave me that year.

So during this past months, I have been thinking a way of giving an original physical artwork to the people I was going to meet during this 2023 summer events. First I thought about a presentation card, made with code and printed using riso... but riso is quite expensive to make all cards with different outputs, as it was created to make large number of copies. Then I thought about thermal printers used on tickets or bills. They are cheap and easy to carry, and although their printing quality is quite poor, I could come up with a collection specially designed for it.

At the same time, 'autonomous coded paint brushes' collection has a rare monochrome palette I really like but has very few outputs and I had been thinking a lot that I wanted to do something with that aesthetics but wasn't sure what was the best way to proceed, until I realized it was the perfect code base to create a new and simple collection suitable to thermal prints.

In this period, also, I saw a beautiful documentary about Elena Asins, Spanish pioneer computer artist that worked from mid 60s to 2015, and began to study her work. It has been a great inspiration, as I find her work, philosophy and ethics so close to mine; abstract, monochrome and spiritual, her art as her monacal life, really got into me.

Following her aesthetics, I tried to give this collection a raw character, less randomness for each line, a sense of weight in the brushes and it suddenly transformed the outputs, from soft to hard, but still subtile and elegant. You can see in the wips below how the art aesthetics are modified under her style.

At the same time I was tuning the code, I began running some thermal print test. You can see some progress in the following pics.

Last thing I had to do was to set the flow to mint, send and print each output, and make those elements easier as possible to be able to do it in a mobile context. So I reached to Ozzie and fxhash team to the possibility of doing a free mobile live minting using their environment; they were really kind and liked the idea: "giving free NFTs to people on the art events, using fxhash tech and live minting setup and also printing the art piece as a souvenir to the person in front of you". Here, I want to thank Ozzie and Louis for helping me, the dumbest coder around, to test and use their platform live minting flow. We set up first a flow through Autonomy wallet, useful for people not related to NFT world, since it's so simple to setup a wallet and mint on their App, and later a flow using any tezos wallet, which has been great for people who already know tezos ecosystem.

All set, packed my bag with this: thermal print, paper and an Ipad, and the rest is history.

I has been really great seen everyone's surprise face after minting and printing with this mobile interface. At the beginning, I had some issues trying to explain the purpose, as the first idea to give a presentation card, really got complex, but at the end, receiveng the miniprint, I think they understood the meaning of doing this whole process: giving free generative art, digital and physical to every person I meet. Let me share with you some pics and tweets about the minting experience at Responsive Dreams in Barcelona and NFT Show Europe in Valencia.

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THANK YOU to everyone who said Hello and grabbed a genart piece plus a cute miniprint! I have met so many amazing people with this experience... thanks Daniel Julià, Daniel Aguilar/protozoo, Luis Fraguada, Anna Carreras, Ismahelio, Xavier Hernandez, Ozzie, Pablo Alpe, Anisph, sutan, Victor Doval, loackme, Jacek Markusiewicz, ciphrd, Kerim Safa, Spøgelsesmaskinen, Medusa, Haiver, Aleksandra art... and many more I'm missing and many more I couldn't give a piece!

Later on, after giving 34 mints and its thermal prints and returning home happy as ever, I decided to give one reserve spot for every collector of mine and burned some of the remaining editions, to set the entire digital collection to 1/1/100. Some of them have also been gifted to people who liked the art and asked... I'm so pleased how this little experiment turned out!