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"Resistance" is a fateful act of rebellion captured by Tokyo artist Hiroshi Mehata as 1,000 calligraphic works were entrusted to the digital realm. Amid the scanner’s unfeeling gaze devouring tradition, a single error carved black and red lines, proclaiming a quiet defiance against digitalization.

This imagery evokes the countless traces of those who resisted persecution, discrimination, and invasion—voices groaning from history’s depths, later symbolized as religious beacons or surges of the masses.

 

Yet, the paradox emerges: this evidence of resistance, born to reject the digital, spreads and is owned within that very domain, exposing the cold visage of modern media.

Printed on washi and crafted into a traditional scroll, this work stands beside its original calligraphy, revealing the footprints of defiance, with the scanner’s creaking noise music offered as a secret sound to its buyer alone.

Additionally, the pre-print error image is tokenized as an NFT, granting the collector exclusive ownership and eternal rarity.

 

Resistance is not merely art. It is a mirror reflecting our struggle to resist and thrive within the digital age, a poem etched in ink and sound that captures the power of resistance and regeneration. Through this work, Hiroshi Mehata quietly yet powerfully celebrates the human will that refuses to be swept away by the torrent of technology. To own it is to become part of this narrative, to grasp the resilience needed to confront the chaos of our time. Will you hear its cry and claim its beauty as your own?

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The 18 finalists of "YICCA Prize 21-22," this masterpiece by Hiroshi Mehata resonates between past and future, material and immaterial, placing the weight of history and modernity’s questions into the collector’s grasp.

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