• Collection of Seeker portraits

Seekers is a handcrafted series of artwork that combines portraiture with puzzles.

An ever expanding narrative weaves the threads between the different chapters of Seekers.

Each chapter represents a world we visit, with its own discoveries to be made, its own rewards to reap and its own inhabitants to encounter.
To empower the sense of exploration, the project features creative puzzles to challenge those who choose to take part, and rewards those that succeed.

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Portrait Art

A portraiture collection that feels like a series of collectibles, but where the focus lies on quality, not quantity.
Created by contemporary artist Mathijs, each portrait is lovingly made using a mixture of digital and physical painting.
The project itself is also a journey of exploration for the artist. Every new chapter brings new style influences that have an effect on the outcome.
The sense of exploring lies at the center of the work, as each chapter attempts to dig deeper into specific subjects and the different sides of that subject.

Puzzles & Treasures

The metaphor of exploring also translates into the other part of the project. Puzzles!
Every chapter we explore is surrounded by puzzling challenges, ranging from cryptic riddles to cryptographic encoding.
The narrative of the chapter is driven forward by these puzzles, as the community works to solve them, they advance the story they are currently in.

These puzzles happen in the Discord, so if you’re looking to get some mental exercise while you collect art, come on in!
Rewards await those who solve, ranging from unique 1/1 prize Seekers, or Treasures that are useful at different points in the project.

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Exploring the Hierarchy

In an ever-expanding narrative, we, as a community, journey together. Through the various chapters we uncover new things. The function of these things, or their place in the wider spectrum isn’t always immediately clear. Along the way we discover how the pieces of this grand puzzle fit together.

Expansive

The hierarchy shown in the image is a precursor of things to come. We started out with just the Seekers, 1/1 NFT’s that grant collector rights when obtained.
Eventually, by digging deeper we met the first Oracle. Holding an Oracle piece gives the owner two key benefits. They receive cryptic information regarding new developments in the shape of ‘messages from beyond’. They also get to influence the direction by making decisions at specific points in time.
For example, when we are unsure where to go next, the Oracle supplies the possible choices for the community to decide upon. A layered communal decision decides where this project goes next.

Utility

Besides the regular Seekers collection, there are the Seekers Treasures.
A collection filled with all sorts of items discovered or won along the way. Literal treasure items, like swords, crystals and rings, but also items like the Proto, a blank slate precursor to a Seeker.
These items serve a purpose. They are utilized in various planned creation processes to let the holders trade in these items for something new. A process they influence by the different items they use.

About the artist

Seekers is made by Mathijs, a contemporary artist working on the blurry border between digital and traditional painting.

His work is colorful and complex, and often deals with the influence of technology on mankind. Through narrative series, contemporary topics are explored.

In the NFT space, his work on HicEtNunc is a well-known collection of colorful experiments where physical paintings collide with digital means of painting.