Humming Dragon
Android Jones paints with light instead of pigment. The Colorado digital art pioneer coined "electro-mineralism" for his medium, and his work has been projected onto the Sydney Opera House and Empire State Building, canvases measured in stories. "Humming Dragon" is Jones in full flight: an Eastern dragon rendered as pure vibration, serpent-coil iconography fused with sci-fi circuitry and third-eye geometry, ancient deity redrawn at hummingbird frequency. It has since become one of his most beloved images, traveling the world on everything from festival screens to Paperblanks journals. A painting made of light, now on a 100mg 24-karat gold canvas.
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“When I stare into the blank canvas of the monitor... it’s an awareness that I’m staring at an infinite number of possibilities.”
Android Jones
Painting of the Opera
The work of Android Jones has been painted live across the sails of the Sydney Opera House and the Empire State Building, two of the most recognizable buildings in the world.
Painted in light.
Now minted in gold.
Humming Dragon is how a lot of people meet Android Jones without knowing it. The image has traveled far outside gallery walls — Paperblanks put it on journals, planners, and thousand-piece puzzles stocked in bookstores worldwide, while the original circulates through festival screens and the visionary art community as one of Jones’ signature works. It’s the piece that does what his art does best: stops someone mid-scroll or mid-isle and pulls them into the intricate detail.
Now you can own the rarest form that Humming Dragon will ever take: double serialized, individually numbered 24-karat gold.
Electric front to back.
We obsess over the details. Our designers spend an enormous amount of time adapting each work of art to ensure a faithful adaptation on our golden canvas.
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Certified authentic.
Each Aurum is double serialized, with one unique serial number on the bill, and one on the certificate of authenticity, or COA. Each COA is sequentially numbered, so you'll know which you got off the production line of our mint.
The serials on every COA are protected by FIPS-compliant holographic, tamper-evident seals. The Aurum bills have the same embedded anti-counterfeiting tech found in the Swiss franc. In short, there's never been a more protected gold collectible or art print.
Real, beautiful gold
Protected by dual layers of flexible polymer, the 24-karat gold inside is safe from scratches and exposure to the elements.
True scarcity
Big names, small lots. We only mint a small number of first editions, and once they’re gone, they’re gone for good.
Dual-value asset
Fine art has a market (including prints), and gold has a market. Fine art made with gold has appreciation potential across both.
About the Artist
Android Jones
Andrew “Android” Jones cut his teeth in the engine rooms of blockbuster imagination — a concept artist at Industrial Light & Magic who co-founded Massive Black and ConceptArt.org, training grounds for a generation of digital artists — before walking away to invent a genre of his own. He calls it “electro-mineralism,” defined by intricate, luminous paintings built from light and software, where Eastern iconography collides with science-fiction circuitry.
Jones’ canvases have refused to stay indoors, having been projected across the sails of the Sydney Opera House and up the Empire State Building, exhibited at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, and performed live before festival crowds where he paints in real time like a musician plays. A pioneer of digital painting and a pillar of the visionary art movement, Jones makes images that feel more channeled than created.
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