Gate 19 ā š¤ ( qų-Åffh)
Title:Ā
kųrdÄt
āBurning KÅ«rt / Fading KÅ«rdetā
(Also known as: Come as You Are)
Collections:
The GÄn'Äxsis Collection (Physical + Oridinals)
the HEÄRT TRUST / BTT TRUSTĀ
Connected to:
LÄgÄnd Collection (Jā¦)
In Memorial of: Kurt (Kūrdet) Cobain
February 20, 1967 ā April 5, 1994
Symbol of Life: <J āĀ >Ā J Ā āĀ (SolidĀ Yellow) <Ć¢ -Ā lifÄ.com)
Inscription Serial: A-19
Assigned Realms: grief | transformation | artistic resurrection
Letter: š¤ ā bÄt (Paleo-Hebrew)
Painting Hours: 110 HRS
Study / Learning Time: 70+ HRS
Materials: Acrylic and ash on canvas
Size: 40" x 60"
Weight: 40 lbs
Years Created: 2017ā2022
Elemental Pulse: Earth / Echoed Memory
Color (Tarot): Indigo Ash & Fading Ember
Frequency: 71.1 Hz ā Vanishing Light
Palette: KÅŖRDET ā heÄrt.com
Source: Inner translation / personal revelation
Link: Ā š¤|KÅ«rdetĀ
Ärcanes: necrÅmancy, transmutÄtion, IllusiÅn, summÅnning,Ā divinÄtion , 27th club
Replacement Value
$650,000Ā (Nov 2024)Ā Ā |
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$235,000Ā (Apr 2023)Ā Ā Ā Ā |
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Valuation in BTC: 0.7755 BTC
Ā Location:
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā NEW EÄRTH MUSEUM, Red Hook, NY (2022ā2023)
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā NEW ĆEÄRTH MUSEUM, Joshua Tree, CA (2024ā2025)
Publications:
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Art Basel, Miami (2022, 2023)
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā NEW EÄRTH MUSEUM (2023-2024)
Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā HEÄRT Gallery, Tel Aviv (2019-2022)
ExÅnym / Artist Identity:
the heÄrtist ā Dr. HEÄRT [Recanati]
ArcÄnes:
necrÅmancy, transmutÄtion, illusiÅn, summÅnning, divinÄtion, 27th Club
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Description
This is not a portrait of Kurt Cobain. This is a split echo:
Kūrt, the flaming spirit.
Kūrdet, the fading whisper.
The heÄrtwork was born from a typo in a newspaper ā āKÅ«rdetā instead of āKurt.ā
A name he once embraced during depression, a mirror of his duality.
In that tension, the artist found a portal ā between fire and retreat, noise and silence.
It was painted over years while wandering the desert of no-where.
The heÄrtist encountered Kurtās ghost beneath a bridge, whispering lyrics into the air.
āSomething in the wayā¦ā the mirage sang. Then flames. Then fade.
Kurt returned golden ā distant, ungraspable.
He pointed and shouted, āItās better to burn than fade away,ā then disappeared into trees.
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Kabbalistic Essence:
⢠Sefirah: Chokhmah ā Wisdom, the archetype of Divine Father
⢠Meaning: House, container, sacred vessel of holding
⢠Element: Earth ā the magnetic field of memory and form
⢠Color (Tarot): Indigo Ash & Fading Ember
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Energetic Principle
This artifact holds the resonance of lost voices. Of vanishing brilliance.
It is not nostalgia. It is confrontation.
It does not idolize the fallen ā it lets them speak one last time, in flame.
KÅŖRDET is not about Cobainās death.
It is about the echo that still hums in the trees.
A vandolin strumming under moonlight whispers:
āCome as you are.ā
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Poetic Story from the HeÄrtist
Walking in the desert of no-where for a while, wondering about that man who sold the world, does anyone know him at least as well as I do?
Does anyone else hear his vandolin sounds?
In the way of a dilapidated sign standing on its wire with strange language written on it ā āhwish-kahlā ā a heavy smell surrounds the air. An incomprehensible stench fills the compressed atmosphere. I carefully cross the stinking river bridge. Near the end, I hear voices.
I climb down the steep road to the crevasse under the bridge and see a mirage cross an obstacle near the water line.
He chants, āsomething in the way, mmm, something in the way, mmm...ā
Suddenly, he sees me ā and bursts into flames.
Then he fades. Then returns ā golden, somber, with hair flowing to his shoulders.
He looks at me with his vast eyes, points, pauses, and shouts:
āItās better to burn than fade away!ā
Then burns. Then fades.
Almost impossible to communicate with a flame or a mirage of wind, I decide to climb back up toward the bridge.
And I hear it again ā the heavenly instrumental.
Someone, somewhere around me, playing a vandolin.
My steps rush toward it. The sounds grow stronger.
He hums in a voice I know deep in my bones:
āsomething in the way, mmm... something in the way...ā
I stop. I wonder who I am.
Itās the golden boy. His eyes tell a thousand years of stories.
I pull out my notebook and hand him a poem ā the one with the black star wrote it.
He gently swipes his hand over the ink like heās caressing a memory.
He shuts his eyes. And sings.
The voice that rises is grungy, rough, holy.
Golden rain falls through treetops trying to extinguish him. But itās too late ā he is fading again.
I treasure the moment in my heÄrt and offer it to the world.
I call him:
Come as You Are.
Kūrt - The flaming
Kūrdt - The fading
Cubain
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Connected LÄgend (Digital):
The Prince of Diamonds ā J ā
burning kūrt / fading kūrdet
Available at: heÄrt.com/collections/legends/products/prince-of-diamonds
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Reference:
Kurt Cobain ā Wikipedia