SUMMER WAVES
by A-Mashiro
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“The elements themselves were already part of my visual language, but by changing the way I used them, I discovered a space within my own work that I hadn’t seen before. It felt like I had found a new world of my own.”
SUMMER WAVES BY A-MASHIRO
Some works continue an artist’s language. Others expand its possibilities.
Summer Waves does both.
For more than two decades, A Mashiro has worked with circles, lines, color, Japanese patterns, and the natural world. These elements have become a visual language of their own, shaped across years of physical and digital creation. Traditionally, his patterns remained contained within forms defined by circles and lines.
In Summer Waves, something changed.
While searching for what the composition still needed, A Mashiro allowed the wave pattern to escape those boundaries and move across the entire image. What began as an experiment unexpectedly transformed the work. The composition no longer contained pattern. It moved through it.
The discovery did not replace A Mashiro’s existing language. It expanded it. As he describes it, allowing pattern to move freely across the image has given him “one more possibility” to carry into whatever comes next.
Summer Waves captures that moment of discovery: familiar elements rearranged until they reveal somewhere the artist had not been before.
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ABOUT
SUMMER WAVES
I grew up near the sea. The view of the water, the smell of the tide. I still love them, and I have been painting the seasons for a long time now; Summer Waves continues that line of work.
While I was working on it, the paintings of David Hockney were somewhere in the back of my mind. Nothing of his appears in the piece directly, but I wanted to make a painting with that kind of bright atmosphere.
I have painted circles and Japanese patterns many times. This time, though, instead of only enclosing the pattern within lines, I set the wave motif boldly across the whole picture. Doing so let me express a brightness that isn't confined by a frame — and it also feels like I found a new world of my own.
ABOUT
A-MASHIRO
A Mashiro makes geometric abstractions that hold order and chaos in the same frame. Circles, lines, and squares settle over flowing, ink-bled grounds, each element placed, in his words, “as if they were there originally.”
Raised on Japan’s coast in a family home more than 150 years old, he grew up surrounded by traditional patterns, nature, and the quiet logic of functional beauty. More than two decades of oil and acrylic painting followed, shaped as much by Western approaches to color and composition as by the Japanese visual traditions he inherited. In 2021, he carried that painter’s hand into digital media, where the underlying discipline remains unchanged: every work is a search for balance, built stroke by stroke.
For A Mashiro, creating is a way of steadying the mind, his own first, then the viewer’s. That pursuit has taken his work to exhibitions in Tokyo, Seattle, New York, Miami, and across Europe, as well as projects with Bright Moments in Tokyo and Venice and work on SuperRare. He is equally committed as a collector and curator, introducing international artists to Japan while helping connect Japanese artists with the wider world. He lives and works in Tokyo.
Digital+Physical
Summer Waves exists first as a digital painting. Its physical edition is not intended simply to reproduce it.
For the 24 × 36 inch (61 × 91.4 cm) print, A-Mashiro worked with 360°GRAPHICS, a Tokyo printmaking studio founded in 1982. The work is printed on Kakita 300, a Japanese silkscreen printmaking paper. The studio has produced works for artists including Yayoi Kusama, Tadanori Yokoo, and Yoko Ono.
The underlying image is printed in giclée. The first layer of medium gives the surface a distinctive sheen while also protecting the image. The second layer of ink renders the wave pattern in silver, giving the surface a physical character that cannot be experienced on a screen.
The result is a different encounter with the same work: one transmitted through light, the other through ink, surface, and scale.
The edition is limited to 25. Each $750 acquisition includes the digital artwork and its matching museum-quality print, hand-signed and numbered by A-Mashiro. One work, two encounters.
Buyers are responsible for any applicable import duties or VAT on their purchase. Please allow up to 10 weeks for the print to arrive.
Closer look
Summer Waves by A-Mashiro
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Collection Size
25 editions
Available on a First-come, first-served basis.
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Purchase Price
$750 USD paid via ETH on Transient Labs
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DIGITAL + PRINT
Each $750 purchase includes the digital artwork and one museum-quality, hand-signed physical print.
Buyers are responsible for any applicable import duties or VAT on their print purchase. Please allow up to 10 weeks for your print to arrive.
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Pre-Sale
ICONIC Art Pass Holder Presale: Tuesday, August 18th, 12 PM EST through Wednesday, August 26th at 10 AM EST.
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Public Sale
Wednesday, August 26th at 12 PM EST.
FAQ
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Summer Waves is a digital artwork by Tokyo based artist A Mashiro, released as an edition of 25 on Ethereum.
This piece marks an evolution in A-Mashiro’s visual language. Patterns that were previously contained within individual forms are released across the entire composition, while brightness becomes an explicit artistic aim. Together, these changes create a greater sense of openness, movement, and spatial freedom within the work.
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The work introduces a new compositional possibility within A Mashiro’s established visual language. For the first time, he allows a Japanese wave pattern to move beyond the circles and lines that traditionally contained it and spread across the entire composition.
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Summer Waves was digitally painted entirely by hand. A-Mashiro developed the linework using a Wacom pen display and Clip Studio Paint before working extensively with color, pattern, and texture in Photoshop. The process included repeated color adjustments, detailed pattern editing, and close inspection of individual lines and forms.
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No. Summer Waves is neither generative nor AI-generated. The artwork was digitally drawn and painted by A-Mashiro entirely by hand.
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Summer Waves is limited to 25 editions, available on a first come, first served basis.
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Summer Waves will be released on Ethereum as an ERC-1155 digital edition.
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Yes. Every purchase of Summer Waves includes both the digital artwork and one corresponding museum quality, hand signed and numbered physical edition.
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The physical edition is a 24 × 36-inch print combining giclée printing with silkscreened silver elements. The additional silkscreen process introduces a reflective material quality that cannot be reproduced through giclée printing alone.
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The physical edition begins with the same composition as the digital artwork but is conceived as a distinct physical expression of the work. The silkscreened silver introduces reflectivity, texture, and a changing relationship with light that exists only in the physical edition.
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360°GRAPHICS in Tokyo produced the physical edition. A printmaking studio founded in 1982 with more than four decades of experience across silkscreen and giclée. The studio has produced works for artists including Yayoi Kusama, Tadanori Yokoo, and Yoko Ono.
For A Mashiro, the collaboration was as much artistic as technical: the studio approached the physical edition as an artwork in its own right rather than simply reproducing a digital file.
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Each edition is $750 USD. The $750 purchase includes both the digital artwork and one museum-quality, hand-signed, and numbered physical print. There is no additional cost for the physical edition.
Buyers are responsible for any applicable import duties or VAT on their print purchase. Please allow up to 10 weeks for your print to arrive. -
During the pre-sale, collectors can purchase Summer Waves using a credit card, debit card, Apple Pay, or ETH. After the pre-sale ends, Summer Waves will only be purchasable using ETH during the public sale.
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The ICONIC Art Pass Holder Presale opens Tuesday, August 18th, at 12 PM EST and runs through Wednesday, August 26th, at 10 AM EST.
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Wednesday, August 26th at 12 PM ET
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