Jack Kaido is an abstract painter.

He creates lifelike abstract paintings in digital’s endlessly-reproducible form, then plays with this by minting 1/1 only editions, just like real paintings — a buyer becomes the only person worldwide to own the painting.

Kaido experiments with colours through colour theory and seeks to capture moments, memories, emotions, landscapes and ideas in his paintings. This capturing is viewed as a form of photograph of an experienced inner moment, or in other words, ’polaroids of the within’.

His first series 'Polaroids' is comprised of 30 paintings, and the series takes its title and reflections from #11 in the series. His work takes great influence from the art of the American Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s, and in particular, Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell. 

Polaroids V5

"I don’t really go on the internet, it’s like a ouija board, it’s like letting someone into your head, behind your eyes. It lets randoms in".

The above is a quote from the electronic artist Burial, said in 2012.

Lots of incredible things happen on the internet, yet also, all the randos are let loose. This painting aimed to marry both together, the good and bad, with its colour harmonies.


Kaido #2 — ‘Rando’ (2021)

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