The Magician - Limited Edition Print

MEAR ONE has been at the center of Los Angeles graffiti and mural culture since the late 1980s. He was the first graffiti artist to exhibit at the 01 Gallery on Melrose. He preceded Banksy's first North American show. His work is in the permanent collection of the Laguna Museum of Fine Art. He has exhibited at LACMA's Art in the Streets. He has spent thirty years building a body of work that puts ancient mythology and contemporary monetary politics in direct conversation, and he has paid for it: beaten, shot at, jailed, and cancelled in roughly that order. None of it stopped him. The Magician debuted at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas alongside a limited edition print run. The archetype is specific in MEAR ONE's cosmology. The Magician is not a deceiver. He is the figure who sees the system for what it is and chooses to work outside it anyway. In the Tarot tradition the Magician is the first card of the Major Arcana, the one who translates pure potential into directed action. MEAR ONE maps this onto Bitcoin with complete sincerity. The monetary system is the stone of madness. Bitcoin is the operation. The print medium amplifies this. Holographic foil with embossing and spot-gloss is not a prestige add-on. It is a surface that refuses to be fixed, that changes with the viewer's position and the quality of the light. For a work about seeing through illusion, that instability is the point. This is one of the most recognized artists in the Bitcoin art world and one of the few with a track record that extends decades before Bitcoin existed. BMAG holds the remaining editions of this run.

Archival quality giclée print with embossing and spot-gloss details on metallic foil paper with rainbow holographic finish. Limited to 256 signed and numbered editions. 18 in. × 24 in. full-bleed artwork. Includes COA from artist. Ships in tube from Nashville, TN.