capnganj.tez, who also goes by capnganj.eth and posts under the handle @capnganj, is a pseudonymous generative artist and web3 coder based in Brooklyn, New York. Working alone under the pseudonym to separate the work from their professional life, they create generative drawings, 3D models, and photography celebrating cannabis and psychedelics culture, which they describe as positive forces changing western minds.
The mushroom motif recurs across several series, beginning with Shroom Spores, 333 one-of-one algorithmically generated drawings of psilocybin mushroom spores as seen under black light, minted on the Solana blockchain in January 2022.Further mushroom-themed series followed on fxhash between September 2022 and April 2023, including Acid Warning, Psilocybe Azurescens, Bear Prints, and Mushrooms and Skulls.Psilocybe Isabelae, a generative 3D fungi collection capped at 44 editions, minted on objkt.com in autumn 2023.
Bear Skulls, 256 generative 3D skull models that minted out on Ethereum on February 25, 2023, are framed as a digital run of a lost 1968 crystal-skull series that a character called the Bear is said to have commissioned during an LSD trip.Poison Toads is a collection of 3,333 generative psychedelic toad drawings released as one-of-one ERC-721 tokens on the Polygon blockchain.Tripping Face pairs 144 generative drawings made in late 2021 with street art photography editions, distributed through a Manifold ERC-1155 contract.Strange Loops is an Ethereum ERC-721 collection of self-reference and recursion experiments, including QR codes, video, and photographs that loop back on their own output.Several releases state the same stance toward collectors: “art is the utility”, with no roadmap, whitelist, or added utility beyond the work itself.,
