You built something special, and I hope it lives on in your honor. The generative art community is heartbroken; your passion for helping others create and collect shined as bright as the sun. I’ll cherish our bond over chess (even though you whooped me) and I wish I’d met you sooner so we could play more games and have more conversations. Though you were my newest friend, you felt like an old one. Gone far too soon. I hope you’re out there surfing perfect waves through the cosmos. Rest in peace.

For years I only knew you as your screen name Pifragile, seeing and collecting your art on fxhash and then on the platform you built EditArt. I finally got to meet you a few days before you passed on your last weekly EditArt livestream (https://x.com/editart_xyz/status/2024692757697081564). We hit it off right away and I’m so glad I got to see your face light up as I told you all of the things I love about how EditArt makes creating and collecting generative art so fun and easy. (continued)

Piero—or Pifragile, as I knew you— it was evident you were a sweet, kind and creative soul from the brief exchanges we had this year in the generative art community. Your creative light will be deeply missed. I hope you find peace wherever you are now. My deepest condolences go out to your family and loved ones. I wish them all great strength and courage.