Benjamin Wong

In Benjamin Wong’s collection, KaliYuga’s A Map To Where I Went turns a landscape into part of a face.² A strip of blue landscape lies across the eyes of a face set among flowers and torn pieces of map paper.³ The terrain sits exactly where sight should be, so the figure seems to look through country rather than at it.³ Flowers and map scraps surround the head, leaving the covered eyes as the still centre of the composition.³ The token credits KaliYuga as its artist and records a found paper ground, a heart and a desert among its traits.³ That ground separates it from the series examples BD5D examined, which sat on a single colour and were recorded as heartless.⁴ The release frames the series as collage turned toward memory, feeling and the unsaid parts of an inner life, and this piece makes that idea visible through a map.⁵ The wallet received the work on 15 June 2023, the day after the series first opened for minting.^6,4 That transfer records arrival only, with no purchase established.⁶

The wallet is named WongsworthVault on OpenSea, and its profile links the Wongsworth social account. From there Wong links to his own website.⁷ Wong’s timeline links to Property Relay, where he publishes the portrait reproduced here.^8,9 On that timeline he describes licensing cityscapes and street photographs for Toronto Mind Framed Photos between 2017 and 2020, crediting the photographers and selling framed prints at modest prices, and he lists an eight-scene AI short film from February 2026.⁸ The timeline stands apart from the BrainDrops record and shows no buying or making of any piece in it.⁸ Several of KaliYuga’s portraits share this wallet with works from Confluence, SIGHTS, Elemental Creation and New Lands.² Views and Paradise Lost each appear more than once, while single pieces come from projects as different as Brain Loops, DreamScapes, ClipMatrix Creatures, 🎵 Fake Feelings, TEOPEMA, Materia Mania, Mappings and corpo | real.²

Roope Rainisto's Lioness moves from paper to open air.¹⁰ A figure in a white top stands among flowers in a meadow, with a dark line of trees closing off the distance.¹⁰ The token names Rainisto as artist and records a Union form in landscape orientation.¹⁰ BD5D's history of Life In West America describes images that resemble mid-century colour film, nearly always holding something no camera could have caught, under short titles that hint at stories without telling them.¹¹ Lioness keeps to that habit, because nothing in the field explains the name, and the viewer is left to decide whether the figure is the lioness or is watching for one.¹⁰ The project's own text weighs America as land and as ideal against the habits of photography.¹² In this picture the ideal is pastoral, a flowering field instead of the roadside lots and service counters seen in other examples from the edition.^10,11 The wallet holds no other work from Life In West America, so the meadow stands alone for the series.² It received Lioness on 9 February 2023, the day after the edition opened.^13,11

Ren's Job Done comes from Paradise Lost, which the project sets out as a graphic novel told through separate images.¹⁴ A dark-haired figure sits on a ledge between tall buildings, turned toward the bright opening at the end of the street.¹⁵ Its trait places it in the fifth act, Awakening Humanity, in the epilogue scene, and the token's text names Hiroshi, Aya and Kenji as characters still working to keep technology answerable to people.¹⁵ The text supplies names the image leaves unstated, so who sits on the ledge stays open.¹⁵ BD5D examined another epilogue panel, Weight Lifted, in which the protagonist stands calm as a crowd walks away into the light.¹⁶ Job Done shares that light but places its figure above the street and apart from any crowd, so the ending is watched rather than joined.^15,16 The tall page format of the edition suits this vertical view of ledge and towers.¹⁶ The plain title reads like a last caption for a story about a young inventor in a technological city.¹⁶ The wallet holds more than one Paradise Lost, and it received Job Done on 2 January 2024, a few days after the edition's release.^2,17,16

Placed in order, these transfers give this wallet a history of its own.^13,6,17 Lioness arrived in February 2023, A Map To Where I Went in June that year, and Job Done at the start of 2024, each soon after its series opened.^{13,6,17,11,4,16} The sequence does not follow one line of interest, since a meadow came before a collage and a city epilogue followed both.^13,6,17 A quick arrival can look like a decision, yet each record confirms only that a token reached the wallet, and none establishes a purchase.^13,6,17 All three are stills, with empty animation fields and formats recorded as png or jpeg, so each is a single fixed image rather than an animation.^3,10,15 Each token also carries its own Artist trait naming KaliYuga, Rainisto or Ren, which matters in a wallet spread across so many projects, because the credit travels with the piece rather than resting on a collection label.^3,10,15

With several portraits by KaliYuga present, a viewer can follow how the material across the face changes from picture to picture.² A Map To Where I Went shifts away from the plain grounds seen elsewhere in the series toward found paper, and adds both a heart and a desert.^3,4 Its title points to a route already travelled, and the image answers by laying terrain across the face itself.³ The last thing the eye settles on is the paper, scraps of cartographic paper among the petals around a face whose eyes have become a band of blue country.³