SERIES 411: Greg’s Amazing Landscapes

This collection consists of 411 unique images. These NFTs come with a rare and unintended advantage—zero royalties. Due to a quirk in the original smart contract, secondary sales are completely royalty-free, making them especially attractive to collectors and traders who prefer full ownership without additional fees.

Their scarcity is amplified, as I likely won’t create another commission-free collection—especially after so much work. Each NFT is handmade, with no AI or automation involved. I manually cut, scaled, and aligned every strip using only a mouse and keystrokes. Any imperfections that peek through are like Kintsugi—golden testaments to my effort.

The idea for this collection first struck me several years ago while viewing Gerhard Richter’s Strip Painting series. Richter digitally copied his physical paintings, then sliced them into thin vertical strips—some only a pixel wide. He then scaled, transposed, and reassembled them into entirely new compositions. I was intrigued.

Anyone who has ever cropped a photo or cut up a magazine has likely felt Richter’s impulse. In the physical world, you can only do it once though—the original is lost. Digitally, you can slice, rearrange, and duplicate infinitely, preserving both the new work and the source. Like many artists, I had experimented with this process in Photoshop, but never on this scale, nor with the dedication that Richter displayed.

I chose not to mix oil and watercolor in the same NFT. Though some exceptional experimental pieces emerged, the palettes often clashed, and the textures of canvas and watercolor paper didn’t mesh. In the end, I kept them separate.

41 of the NFTs are standalone works—the Elements of the series (cropped versions of the 41 Masters of the 451 Series). From these images, all others are derived. Next are the Reflections, flooded landscapes—ephemeral moments of calm beauty that emerge only after torrents of change. These are the only works where a source painting appears twice in the same piece.

The Triptych, Quadtych, Pentaptych, Hexaptych, Septaptych, and Octaptych are all collages—not in the sense of Picasso and Braque, who expanded Cubism by incorporating newspaper and magazine clippings. For them, these materials added political relevance, everyday textures, and wordplay, while also challenging the boundaries between art and reality.

Instead, Series 411 shares its lineage with Matisse’s "Cut-Outs." Unlike the Cubists, Matisse didn’t use printed materials, found objects, or stencils. Rather than buying colored paper, he hand-painted sheets of paper with gouache—insisting on absolute control. Likewise, I use only my own artwork. Matisse described his process as "drawing with scissors." Series 411 is drawn with “Select”.

Just as Matisse painstakingly rearranged his cutouts before committing them to paste, I obsessively tested compositions, shifting, rotating, and refining—undoing and redoing. This process was as rewarding as it was exhausting—the tyranny of Ctrl+Z.

Within the collection, you’ll find landscapes reimagined as forests, fields, cliffs, mountains, and the four seasons. There are also purely abstract designs and composite images. In the Hexaptych, Septaptych, and Octaptych, movement flows in all directions, creating new rhythms and balance. Bright moons reflect the sun’s brilliance. Landscapes dissolve, time flows, and new realities emerge—born from the interplay of deconstruction and renewal.

A Guide to the Fifteen Traits

Sequence Number

Sequence Number indicates the theoretical sequence in which each NFT was "printed" within the entire series. This serves primarily as a technical function and clerical aid rather than a marker of rarity, especially since each NFT possesses the same 0.24% attribute. It's important to note that all NFTs were technically minted simultaneously.

Painting Style

Oil or Water Color

Type

Element — 41 prime images that were used to generate this collection. Each purposefully tailored for optimal cohesion with its counterparts. Strip Direction: none

Reflections — Repositioned mirrored images of 37 Elements pondering themselves. Strip Direction: Horizontal

Triptych — Probably the most common type of multi-panel work, traditionally consisting of three panels. Often used in religious altarpieces, modern art, and storytelling compositions. Strip Direction: Horizontal/Vertical

Quadtych — A four-panel work that expands on the triptych format. Frequently used to depict a sequence of ideas, shifting perspectives, or a continuous landscape across multiple panels. Contemporary artists often explore this format for abstract compositions and conceptual storytelling. Strip Direction: Horizontal/Vertical

Pentaptych — A five-panel painting, often used for grand, complex narratives or highly structured compositions. Historically, pentaptychs were common in Gothic and Renaissance altarpieces. In contemporary art, some large-scale installations use the pentaptych structure for immersive storytelling. Strip Direction: Horizontal/Vertical

Hexaptych — This image is constructed from six Elements and comprises 3% of the collection. The Elements can manifest as strips, rectangles, squares and circles. Strip Direction: Organic

Septaptych — This image is constructed from seven Elements and comprises 1% of the collection. The Elements can manifest as strips, rectangles, squares and circles. Strip Direction: Organic

Octaptych — This image is constructed from eight Elements and comprises 0.73% of the collection. The Elements can manifest as strips, rectangles, squares and circles. Strip Direction: Organic

Aspect

Landscape or Portrait

Border

Each NFT features a border, which is either absent ("none") or presented in one of the following colors, ranked from most common to rarest: White, Black, Silver, or Gold.

Circle(s)

Circles appear exclusively in hexaptychs, septaptychs, and octaptychs, comprising only 2% of the collection.

Strip Direction

The Strip Direction defines the orientation of the segments within each NFT: Horizontal, Vertical, or Organic. Elements marked as "none" are singular images without segmentation. Reflections exclusively utilize horizontal strips, whereas Triptychs, Quadtychs, and Pentaptychs can be either horizontal or vertical. Horizontal strips extend from top to bottom; vertical strips span from left to right. Organic strip direction allows the cutouts to be arranged in any direction, providing a dynamic and fluid composition. Only Hexaptychs, Septaptychs, and Octaptychs feature an organic strip direction.

Source Painting (1-8)

The Source Painting refers to the original artwork from which each strip is derived. In horizontal paintings, Source Painting 1 begins at the top, while in vertical NFTs, it starts on the left. The sequence of Source Paintings aligns directly with the NFT types; for example, a triptych consists of Source Paintings 1 through 3, each labeled with their titles, whereas Source Paintings 4 through 8 are marked as "none." For NFTs with an "Organic" strip direction, Source Painting 1 corresponds to the upper left quadrant or the most prominent image in the composition.