Some detractors of NFTs fixate on their ethereal, intangible nature. How can they be art, critics cry, if they’re only digital, virtual, disconnected from reality?

It would be difficult to levy those claims against the works of Foodmasku.

That’s the moniker of Antonius Wiriadjaja, the multimedia performance artist who—for three years now—has created NFTs depicting himself wearing masks made entirely of food, and then eating the masks. The ultimate consumption of the work is a rule, a key component.

The association between masks and food—and between food masks and the blockchain for that matter—is not necessarily intuitive. That may be because, for Wiriadjaja, those connections were the product of organic necessity. 

In the earliest months of the pandemic, the artist recalls, he and a group of remote colleagues were navigating the still-bizarre realm of Zoom encounters. One fateful day, one of his friends became inadvertently trapped in a video filter that apparently turned their face into a pickle. The caller was embarrassed. Wiriadjaja’s first impulse was to make them feel better.

“So I took [a part of] my dinner, which was a piece of kale, put it on my face and said ‘Hey, I have a filter on as well,’” Wiriadjaja told Decrypt at NFC Lisbon earlier this week. 

The pickled par

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