Emerald Hero - June - 2025

Emerald Hero - June - 2025 - A hand-crafted NFT collection where, monthly, a new artist reimagines the Heroes, symbols of balance and resilience, with gemstone heads representing not only HODLing Grade but also the perfect balance between the lack and excess of each elemental intelligence. Spanning four tiers, from Emerald (Tier 4) to Diamond (Tier 1), the journey mirrors the Mohs scale of hardness. June’s edition is by Kim Komatsuzaki. There’s something familiar about Kim — a quiet confidence in the linework, a clarity of form, an emotional intelligence pulsing through each choice. Though the name is new, Kim is no stranger to HODL. He once shaped an earlier edition under another name, one that still echoes in the project’s visual memory. Now, Kim returns with a softer gaze: embracing full-body portraits for the first time in the project’s history, letting go of the suit, and shifting the tone toward the whimsical and childlike. In a collection that keeps redefining its own visual language, this edition marks a triple departure: from bust-length to full-figure, from uniformity to individuality, from sleek to sweet. And who better to lead such a transformation than an artist who has already mastered one style — and is brave enough to begin again?
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