Drilady #133 (2024) is one work from Parker Ito’s Drilady collection, released on Solana in 2024 — the moment Ito’s pre-existing gallery practice entered the avant-NFT scene.
Close looking
The square panel is dominated by a thick, pale-grey scumble of paint that drags diagonally across the centre, the brush handle scraped through wet medium so the drag-marks read as torn paper — the gesture preserved as the speed of the drag itself. Underneath the smear, the original Drilady portrait survives in pieces: a slick black bob with a small purple barrette at the crown, two heavy black sunglasses, a hot-pink eyebrow stroke above each lens, a flat tan cheek, an ear on the right side. The lower third holds a black tank-top printed with the word MINIMALISM in block-letter sans-serif; below the smear-line a small orange tab and a wash of blue paint sit on what reads as a stamped-on body. Across the upper edge, in faint screenprint-grey, a row of zeroes and the suggestion of a magazine masthead — AI, DO, partial words — runs from edge to edge as a background pattern. A small eye-icon in the top left corner stamps the panel like a watermark. Reads first: the diagonal scumble — the painterly trait that asserts itself across the picture-plane over the doll. Reads second: the MINIMALISM shirt, deadpan against the mess covering the figure. Reads last: the masthead grey, the picture’s faintest layer, doing all the work of placing the figure inside the print-medium Milady-fork inheritance.
See also
- Parker Ito — the artist
- Drilady — the parent collection
- PNG-layer compositing — the device that lets paint and photograph share a square
- Drilady №402 — sibling work in the collection