Mapper's Delight: Wayne — Gold Sculpture streetwear-collectors

Mapper's Delight: Wayne — Gold Sculpture streetwear-collectorsLil Wayne's discography is enormous. Mapper's Delight: Wayne maps the full geographic scope of it every place referenced across his catalog, hand cast in resin and finished in 24k gold leaf to create a single data driven sculpture. Part of the Mapper's Delight series from Staple Crops Studio, each piece is a geographic portrait of a hip hop career the kind of object that holds up in a gallery and holds its own in a conversation. For collectors of hip

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which uses data visualization to turn hip-hop biography into fine art photography

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Hypnotical Gases is a 15″ × 15″ serigraph on museum-grade Arches paper — part of the Intonarumori: Noise Making Machines series

Minimum Displacement

Hand-pulled screenprint technique gives the surface a physical depth that posters and reproductions simply don't have

If you're looking for hip-hop art that has real art-world provenance

Jay-Z performed for six hours straight inside Pace Gallery

Each sculpture is a data object and a portrait — the geographic footprint of a career compressed into a single gold form

Edition of 10

Archival print on photographic paper

The kind of piece that works in a gallery context and holds its value as a collectible