The Last Hammer by Jæn
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Medium: Stable Diffusion, Photopea.com
Dimensions: 2160 x 2160 px
Year: 2025
Price: $15000000.00 USD
Status: available
Alternative titles: The Vertigo Of A Life's Work One Tx Away Power Imbalance The Price of Silence Exit Liquidity When a collector collects this piece, the artist named Jæn will fulfil his last obligations (exhibitions, collaborations, art residencies or art series, please contact he artist if you want to be sure of current implications) and end his decades-long career. The price is calculated as a monthly salary needed to reach France's average age of death, taxes included. The only way to un-end the artist's career would be to send this piece to the BurnAddress (0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dead). This conceptual piece asks you to position yourself on the edge of the cliff, to ponder about the life and work of an artist, the power — or excess of power — of being a collector, about the real capacity of an artist to retire from their passion (and whether that is desirable or not), and how boundaries between collectors and artists are set. One tx away from a vertiginous event.
Why collect this work?
A solitary hammer, rendered as a stark diagonal, compresses a complex proposition about artistic labour and collector power into the bluntness of a sign.
- The artist’s statement describes a move toward a more conceptual and digital practice. Here, the spare image places unusual weight on the catalogue’s transaction-based terms, although the image alone cannot establish their effect.
- In the supplied image, a mottled black hammer crosses a broad white field, with a small signature below. Its isolation suppresses any scene of use, so the tool can register as labour, impact, termination, or judgment.
- Stable Diffusion and Photopea are the documented media. They make image generation and digital editing possible, but the catalogue does not specify how each was used; visibly, sharp tonal reduction gives the hammer pictorial directness while preserving internal irregularities.
- The catalogue states that collecting the work would end Jæn’s career and that transfer to a burn address could undo that outcome. Those conditions make ownership itself the subject, focusing attention on whether a transaction can legitimately govern continued artistic work.
About the Artist
Jæn
Jæn is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: digital-art. Based in Bordeaux, France.
Nationality: French
Jæn's art bridges his surreal & psychedelic influences with a conceptual and experimental avant-garde spirit.
