The Savage Dharma collection is on exhibit throughout Miami Art Week 2025. The series explores the violent, messy reality of overcoming the beast within. By mashing up the high-octane aesthetic of 1940s pulp adventure magazines with traditional Buddhist iconography, this series re-imagines spiritual practice not as a peaceful sit under a Bodhi tree, but as a knife-fight in the jungle.
The visual language poses that the "monsters" of pulp fiction are literal representations of our own attachments, egos, and delusions. The reptilian brain is a crocodile trying to swallow you whole; the monkey mind is a gorilla tearing apart your camp; and pride is a lion that refuses to be tamed.
Ultimately, the series argues that inner peace is a hard-won prize. It suggests that the drama of the human condition is a timeless story: the struggle against our own primitive nature, whether told through a dime-store novel or an ancient sutra. The setting may be the jungle, but the battleground is the mind.
Collection & Release Details
The Savage Dharma collection is minted on the Tezos blockchain during Miami Art Week 2025 (Dec 1–10). The release is structured to reward early supporters and long-term collectors.
Unique Works (1/1): The flagship piece of the collection, "Savage Dharma," is released as a unique 1-of-1 work. It will be offered at auction with a reserve price of 420 $XTZ.
Limited Editions: The remaining eight artworks in the series (including "Primal Fear”," "Hidden Strike”, and "Golden Fury") are available as limited editions of 10. These will be listed at a fixed price of 69 $XTZ each.
Collector Utility: Owning any NFT from this series grants the holder allowlist access to the next collection release. Additionally, holders will be eligible for a specialized burn-to-redeem event scheduled for February 2026, coinciding with Builder Week in Denver.
A bare-knuckle brawl with the beast of aggression is necessary just to keep the teeth and claws occupied. While he holds the line, the seed of compassion represented by the rescued fawn is quietly pulled from the chaos. It serves as a reminder that protecting what is sacred often requires getting your hands dirty.
The reptilian brain isn't just a metaphor here; it’s literally trying to eat you while your monkey mind watches from the cheap seats. It’s a classic case of fight or flight going horribly wrong for the guy in the disguise. Sometimes, the path to enlightenment involves getting chewed on by a giant lizard.
The path to mindfulness is fraught with distractions, mostly in the form of angry gorillas and lurking leopards. It’s hard to maintain noble silence when everything in the shrubbery wants to turn you into lunch. Honestly, this is exactly why most monks prefer meditating indoors.
Riding the elephant of wisdom is great until the leopards of distraction start biting your ride. She’s trying to rise above the chaos, but the local wildlife clearly didn't get the memo about non-attachment. It’s the ancient, jungle equivalent of road rage, but with significantly more tusks.
The tiger of rage and the bull of attachment are locked in a struggle that looks suspiciously like a bad wrestling match. There are no winners in this clash, just a lot of noise and bruised egos. It’s a messy reminder that holding onto things usually ends with someone getting clawed in the face.
Stuck in the pit of Samsara with nothing but a knife and a completely impractical red dress. She’s battling the twin predators of Passion and Aversion, which are just as annoying as they look. It’s the ultimate Monday Morning vibe, surrounded by problems but still looking fabulous while fighting them off.
Wrestling the lion of Pride is all fun and games until you realize how bad its breath smells. This is a close-quarters struggle to subdue the ego before it decides you look like a snack. Sometimes you eat the beast, and sometimes the beast, well, you know the rest.
The village of impermanence is burning down, but she’s too busy commanding the golden lion of the ego to notice. She has the ferocity of a goddess and the patience of someone who is absolutely done with this drama. If you’re going to stand in the fire of chaos, you might as well look fierce doing it.
The blue rhino of ignorance charges in with the subtle grace of a runaway freight train. Meanwhile, our hero is bound by his own bad karma, waiting to see if he’ll be trampled or just thoroughly dampened. It’s a heavy-handed metaphor for what happens when you ignore the spiritual warning signs.
