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While still resembling the contemporary public figures,

this collection is made up of rudimentary irregular polygons.

The pieces allude to humanities multifaceted nature:

we are all made of many shades, with many sides, and many faces.

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There is a game at play in James' works: 

a purposeful dance between two dimensional mediums and three dimensions illusions.

The viewer is made to be aware that they themselves impose life and/or meaning upon the artwork,

as the polygons culminate in the mind of the viewer

to become more than the some of their parts. 

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Through re-appropriating christian symbolism,

and creating a homage to the traditional aesthetics of stain glass windows, 

these works give rise to the question

'What does the modern day religion look like?'

 

Through out history,

men have created low resolution avatars of themselves

fit for the zeitgeist / public consumption.

These NFT's can be said to explore how the most significant cultural figures of today

are attempting a greater transparency with the public than those that came before.  

They are pushing beyond the tendency towards 2-D tales of heroes and villains, 

and in doing so, becoming something entirely more recognisable,

humanising the archetypes of mythology.

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By Michael C.S. Davidson.