描述
One of only 1023 unique Ztripes sliced from "Origin of art #1" by fictional Swiss artist Max De Zutter. The original artwork - made in 1982 on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 8 bit computer - was a highly complex structure of lines and colors. The work gained mythological status amongst early digital art collectors but was rarely exhibited and never sold. Ten years later in 1992, Max De Zutter cut the original work into 1023 very thin vertical slices. All 1023 slices were stretched out along a wide horizontal expanse in an early digitization process creating Ztripes #1 to #1023.
The original work was destroyed in a fire in 1997, leaving only the 1023 Ztripes. Exactly 40 years after the creation of the original work, Max De Zutter decided to release the 1023 Ztripes as non-fungible tokens in memory of the original piece.
By adding one unique pixel of random color and position to every Ztripe, Max De Zutter secured that the original lost work could never be recreated. Lost forever, existing only as mutated traces from the original masterpiece.