THE HUMAN MIND AND ART
A 1-of-1 art project exploring consciousness, the mind, and culture through the vision of a lifelong creator.
Each work is unique. Each work is singular. Each piece is a chapter.
by ARQMAXNFT
“The Human Mind and Art” is not a finite set of collections, but rather a digital art project in continuous artistic exploration. It functions as an ecosystem where neuroaesthetics and consciousness take shape through singular works, conceived as fragments of visual thought.
This framework unfolds across five interconnected series, where each unique piece explores a distinct conceptual path—from soil regeneration to ancestral symbolism—as part of a shared narrative. Acquiring a work integrates the collector as a patron of a vision that uses art as a tool for cultural reflection, visual education, and human connection.
ABOUT THE PROJET
“The Human Mind and Art” documents the evolving relationship between mind, experience and creation, approaching artistic practice as a long-term process rather than a sequence of isolated outcomes. The project deliberately operates outside market-driven cycles, embracing a slower rhythm in which each 1-of-1 work functions as a singular record of consciousness at a specific moment in time.
Digital technology is used not as an end in itself, but as an infrastructure for transparency and continuity. Through on-chain systems, the project seeks to transform the symbolic value of art into tangible, verifiable impact.
This approach materializes through concrete actions that extend beyond representation: from the preservation of cultural heritage and ancestral symbolism—exemplified in series such as “The Lions of Fu and the Flower of Life”—to the regeneration of critical ecosystems through initiatives like “Save the Soil”.
Within this framework, art is understood not only as expression, but as an active instrument capable of contributing to the healing of both culture and the environments that sustain human existence.
MANIFESTO
“The Human Mind and Art” is not conceived as a collection in the conventional sense, but as an open-ended artistic practice.
The project emerges from a sustained interest in how human consciousness, memory, culture and lived experience shape artistic expression over time.
Rather than producing works to fit predefined themes or market cycles, each piece arises from a specific moment, question or inner state. The works are not variations of a style, but independent responses to experience as it unfolds.
The practice embraces slowness, continuity and reflection. It accepts change, contradiction and uncertainty as essential elements of the creative process.
Meaning is not imposed in advance. It is revealed gradually through accumulation, distance and time.
THE CREATOR
His approach as an architect has always been oriented toward understanding the structures that sustain our reality, both physical and cultural.
This perspective has shaped the way he inhabits the world and engages with the contexts he has encountered throughout his life. During his travels across Asia, this same approach guided a deep immersion into ancestral iconography that now forms part of his digital work. These experiences emerged through direct contact with living traditions, long-lived Tibetan artists, and significant spiritual figures, including the youngest Chinese Living Buddha of the last century.
“The Human Mind and Art” emerges as the synthesis of decades of observation and experience. Drawing from his background in spatial design and his work in neuroaesthetics, he develops 1-of-1 works that function as bridges between historical memory and contemporary consciousness.
Each piece is the result of a journey that began long before the technology that now enables its materialization existed.
CURRENT FOCUS
A Galaxy Animal
The “A Galaxy Animal” collection is presented as the current focus within “The Human Mind and Art”. While the global project encompasses a lifelong inquiry into consciousness, this series serves as an urgent chapter dedicated to the culture of peace—the indispensable condition for all life, now under constant threat.
The guiding thread of this journey is the figure of the cat, a being that throughout history and across diverse cultures has been recognized as a protective guardian of both space and spirit. By intertwining this ancestral presence with the vastness of the cosmos, the collection seeks more than contemplation; it becomes a call for conscious action.
Preserving peace requires an active and unified will to protect the very foundations of our existence.
OTHER WORKS
Beyond the current focus, “The Human Mind and Art” expands through series that explore different layers of conscious experience. Each of these works represents a node in our research network:
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“Consciousness and Evolution” (The Human Mind and Art): Reflections on the origin and transformation of thought. - •
“Regeneration (Save the Soil)”: Art as a tool for direct impact on the health of our ecosystem. - •
“Ancestral Legacy (The Lions of Fu and the Flower of Life)”: An immersion into the symbology that has shaped cultures for millennia. - •
“Identity and Memory” (Beijing Opera Masks and Their Attributes) : Explorations of the mask and the representation of the self.
These pieces are not repetitions, but unique explorations that sustain the architecture of this digital art project.
SOCIAL IMPACT: FROM SYMBOLISM TO ACTION
- • Culture of Peace: Through the “A Galaxy Animal” series, we utilize cosmic harmony and the ancestral wisdom of the cat as a protector to promote collective empathy and raise awareness for peace—the indispensable condition for life that is threatened today.
- • Ecological Awareness: Through the “Saving the Soil” series, we transform visual stimuli into a promotional tool for the preservation of biodiversity and activism for the health of our earth.
- • Identity Preservation: We rescue ancestral iconography, such as the “The Lions of Fu and the Flower of Life” and “Beijing Opera Masks and Their Attributes”, translating millennial legacies into contemporary language to ensure their symbolic meaning endures in the digital consciousness.
- • Responsibility and Transparency: The project embraces an ethical commitment to the cultural and social impact of its artistic practice. Beyond the economic value of each work, it promotes a notion of social return understood as the generation of awareness, critical reflection, and shared responsibility within the community of collectors. This impact is conceived primarily in cultural, educational, and symbolic terms, respecting the nature of art as a space for thought and transformation. The economic value generated by the works is understood as support for the continuity of the project, the preservation of the artistic archive, and the creative autonomy of the artist, rather than as a speculative objective.
ROADMAP
🛣️ The Human Mind and Art: A Journey Through Consciousness and Art
Our roadmap is not just a list of tasks; it is a chronicle of a journey that celebrates the fusion of art, technology, and the human spirit. Each step, each creation, brings us closer to a new dimension
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✨ The Origin (2022 - 2023)
Concept & Foundation The project emerges from the trajectory of an architect, professor, and tenured researcher, with more than nine decades of life dedicated to thought, teaching, and creation. His practice integrates an academic and creative legacy with blockchain and NFT technologies, exploring the relationship between art, the human mind, and spirituality from a contemporary perspective.
💡 Inspiration: The life experiences of a unique figure who bridges human consciousness, quantum physics, and social activism.
🤝 Collaboration: A diverse founding team is established to bring the project to life.
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🚀 The Creation (2023 - 2024)
Early Works and Collections The project’s conceptual vision takes shape in its first digital works, where artistic research, symbolism, social awareness, and cultural memory converge. At this stage, the narrative and aesthetic pillars that structure the project are consolidated..
🎨 Initial Series Curation: The project’s first collections are developed — The Human Mind and Art, A Galaxy Animal, Save Soil with Art, and other foundational series — establishing the artistic, ethical, and narrative framework of the ecosystem.
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💎First Launch and Learning (2025)
Initial Opening of the Project: In 2025, the project’s first public release takes place through the collection A Galaxy Animal, conceived as an introductory series to explore market reception, distribution channels, and dialogue with collectors.
🌌 Initial Collection: A Galaxy Animal serves as an entry point into the project’s conceptual universe, integrating symbolism, social awareness, and a vision oriented toward peace and the preservation of the planet.
📘 Outcome Collection: This phase makes it possible to identify technical, curatorial, and positioning limitations, laying the groundwork for subsequent strategic restructuring.
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🔁 Restructuring and Relaunch Preparation (Late 2025 – Early 2026)
Ecosystem Consolidation. Building on the experience of the first launch, the project enters a phase of strategic review and structural strengthening.
🔗 Technological Migration: Progressive transfer of the collections to the Manifold environment for its flexibility, curatorial control, and compatibility with secondary marketplaces. The minting of all collections on the Ethereum blockchain is completed in January 2026, and the project is withdrawn from Mintable.
🌐 Digital Space Reformulation: Comprehensive adjustment of the website to unify the project’s narrative, roadmap, and curatorial positioning.
📄 Conceptual Documentation: Following the completion of the website (February 2026), the drafting of the official Whitepaper for the relaunch begins, articulating the project’s vision, structure, and projection.
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💎 The Relaunch (2026)
Conscious Opening and Unified Narrative. In 2026, The Human Mind and Art is presented again to the public with a consolidated curatorial structure, a clear narrative, and an optimized technical ecosystem.
🧠 Active Ecosystem: The collections A Galaxy Animal, Beijing Opera Masks and Their Attributes, The Lions of Fu and the Flower of Life, The Human Mind and Art, and Save Soil with Art are integrated as interconnected parts of a single ongoing artistic research project.
📢 Central Message: Digital art as a tool for awareness, culture, and collective responsibility, developed by a 90-year-old architect, professor, and tenured researcher who explores the potential of art in dialogue with contemporary technology.
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🌱 Expansion and Legacy (2026 onward)
A Project in Permanent Evolution. After the relaunch, the project enters a phase of organic and sustained growth, based on conceptual deepening, intercultural dialogue, and controlled experimentation with formats.
✨ Series Development: Sequential activation of the collections, with special attention to their cultural positioning (Asia, Europe, U.S.).
🧩 New Formats: Gradual exploration of physical and hybrid expressions — cloisonné ceramics, digital showcases, installations — as coherent extensions of the digital ecosystem.
⭐ Living Legacy: Consolidating The Human Mind and Art as an intergenerational project of continuous artistic research and a reference in the global dialogue on art, consciousness, and the digital future.
TECHNICAL CONTEXT
This project integrates artistic research with blockchain infrastructure to ensure the authenticity and permanence of each work. The technical dimension of “The Human Mind and Art” is available for verification through the following on-chain records:
COLLECTIONS
The Human Mind and Art
This vision of the Human Mind is, in essence, the result of the interaction between Surrealist automatism based on careful observation and chance operations, intuition, the actions of our subconscious, and digital art.
The “Human Mind and Art” collection explores the intricate mental processes shaping our lives. This collection delves into digital surrealism, revealing the complex dance of our cognitive abilities. Based on surreal automatism and conscious observation, it represents the interaction of attention, perception, memory, reasoning, and coordination. It captures the interplay between the subconscious and conscious realms, revealing a perpetually evolving universe where mind and brain are caught in a game of mystery.
The Collection includes conceptual art, inviting reflection on our existence and celebrating our ability to imagine, create, and understand the world.
A Galaxy Animal
A being from the Milky Way travels to Earth on a mission of Peace and Love, to eliminate wars, assuming the image of a cat, for its sweetness and protective character. Its image linked to cave drawings turned into NFTs, constitute A CALL FOR PEACE.
“A Galaxy Animal” is a collection that merges cosmic majesty, ancestral history, and a timeless message of peace. Inspired by a cosmic traveler from the Milky Way, it portrays a cat, a universal symbol of serenity, wisdom, and protection, delivering love, hope, and unity to Earth. Each piece combines digital art with petroglyph symbolism, intertwining ancient patterns and cosmic textures to honor the cultures that revered cats as guardians of peace. From Egyptian temples to Japanese folklore and Celtic traditions, these works highlight cats as symbols of harmony and balance.
With vibrant colors and galactic motifs, the collection invites reflection on peaceful coexistence, reminding us of the power of art to foster empathy in a fractured world. Wars constitute the planet’s main problem, with devastating consequences: hundreds of millions of human beings dead and/or affected only by the First and Second World Wars. This NFT collection aims to support the fight for peace through art. Each NFT is unique, adorned with cosmic textures and ancient patterns, symbolizing this celestial being’s journey to our planet.
“A Galaxy Animal” is a beacon of hope, urging us to embrace creativity and unity for a better future.
Save the Soil with Art
A surrealistic sculpture that embodies the very essence of soil, and its digital version linked to different types of soil, becomes NFTs, showcasing its importance, beauty, and the dangers it faces.This vision of the Human Mind is, in essence, the result of the interaction between Surrealist automatism based on careful observation and chance operations, intuition, the actions of our subconscious, and digital art.
This sculpture stands as a dreamlike and urgent response to the alarming degradation of soil worldwide. Revealing figures warn that 52% of arable soils are already degraded, and it is feared that within a mere 60 years, the top layer of soil could completely vanish. In the United States, approximately 50% of its topsoil has been stripped away, while in Mexico and Central America, the degradation of their agricultural lands reaches a concerning 74%, and in South America it reaches 45%, with the deforestation of the Amazonia standing out.
The extinction of soil projects significant economic and environmental consequences. It is estimated that each year, this loss incurs an astronomical cost of around 10.6 trillion dollars for the world. In this overwhelming context, “Saving the Soil with Art” unleashes its surreal power to weave a network of awareness and action through art. THROUGH THE SPLENDID BEAUTY OF THE SCULPTURE, AND THE MAGIC OF NFTS, POWERFUL TOOLS ARE ERECTED TO SUPPORT THE PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF THE SOIL.
This sculpture stands as a dreamlike and urgent response to the alarming degradation of soil worldwide. Revealing figures warn that 52% of arable soils are already degraded, and it is feared that within a mere 60 years, the top layer of soil could completely vanish. In the United States, approximately 50% of its topsoil has been stripped away, while in Mexico and Central America, the degradation of their agricultural lands reaches a concerning 74%, and in South America it reaches 45%, with the deforestation of the Amazonia standing out.
The extinction of soil projects significant economic and environmental consequences. It is estimated that each year, this loss incurs an astronomical cost of around 10.6 trillion dollars for the world. In this overwhelming context, “Saving the Soil with Art” unleashes its surreal power to weave a network of awareness and action through art. THROUGH THE SPLENDID BEAUTY OF THE SCULPTURE, AND THE MAGIC OF NFTS, POWERFUL TOOLS ARE ERECTED TO SUPPORT THE PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF THE SOIL.
The Lions of Fu and the Flower of Life
This collection shows the interrelationship between the Lions of Fu and the Flower of Life in Asian culture. Particularly in China, Japan, Vietnam and Thailand.
The Lions of Fu arrived in China from Central Asia and Persia during the Han dynasty, reaching greater diffusion through Buddhism and trade routes.
The Lions of Fu appear in pairs to protect palaces, temples and homes from harmful influences.
Male: Yang energy
Female: Yin energy
Both: Harmony, balance between yin and yang.
The Flower of Life is a geometric symbol that represents the interconnectedness of all life and is found in various ancient cultures, such as Egyptian artifacts from over 6,000 years ago, in Jewish mysticism, and in esoteric teachings.
Each NFT in this collection highlights the cultural heritage and universality of these symbols.
CHINA
JAPAN
THAILAND
VIETNAM
CONNECTION BETWEEN THE FLOWER OF LIFE AND THE LIONS OF FU
Beijing Opera Masks and Their Attributes
Masks and attributes of Beijing Opera made of ebony through lacquer and glazing techniques. The masks serve as makeup for the actors in practice.
This NFT collection reimagines the masks and attributes of the Beijing Opera (京剧), recognized as a symbol of Chinese culture and a World Cultural Heritage. Masks and attributes have appeared in all human societies over the centuries, witnessing the oldest cultures and acting as sacred objects that transplant traditions.
Each NFT uses visual elements to explore concepts like hierarchy, strength, spirituality, etc., transforming cultural heritage into a contemporary digital collectible experience.
The painted masks of the Beijing Opera are recognized as a symbol of Chinese culture. They represent characters such as deities (神灵), emperors (皇帝), warriors (战士), among others, as well as their characteristics: nobility (高贵), power (权力), integrity (正直), bravery (勇敢), wisdom (智慧), among others. The masks serve as makeup for the actors, becoming symbolic and narrative objects, enriched by the collection’s attributes that connect them with profound concepts and act as unique narrative elements.
These are complex objects symbolizing beauty, strength (力量), gods (神明), hierarchy, and fulfilling multiple functions in each culture’s ancestral cosmology.
These pieces tell complex stories that reinterpret cultural richness, resulting in a mix of stylistic elements drawn from abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism, tending to express an idea or convey a message.
Limited and unrepeatable, the collection celebrates the link between tradition and modernity.
