1/1 on Foundation
All my work is intuitive gestural motions like automatic writing. I meditate on ideas and feelings and let it flow. Then I make it wiggle so it feels alive. Minting it is a transfer of this energy to the blockchain. I feel like a conduit in this process. What happens after minting I have very little control.
This piece I was thinking about how many people got upset when I said artists need to think about finding somewhere besides Twitter to be connect. It is a trigger point it seems. Why though?
I kept thinking about goblins a lot - like the project. How as artists we watch major influencers in the space pump projects, and millions of dollars flow, and for what? Mostly seeming like cash grabs and get rich quick situations, not all though.
It feels to me a lot of times like the people holding the bags like to subject the more sensitive artist type to all their flexing and throwing money around like it is nothing while we grind to create and come together and even survive in a cruel, narcissistic and sadistic game. Is it intentional? Or just a reflection of what we are trying to overcome? Or am I just sensitive to previous experiences of people holding money over my head? I am unsure because it all feels like one giant gaslight.
I do know so many fall into chasing that, feeding egos and giving the clout demons attention because they too want the money. Anytime I put gold in a piece, it is reflecting on two sides of gold. Gold = divinity and gold = money.
This inner demons lips are gold from kissing ass for clout. It's left eye cries gold because of the internal suffering this causes the person it forces to do that. It blushes in embarrassment for what it has done, but it also knows what it is doing and intentional.
We can grow and gain the elusive clout to leverage without this demon. It is a harder path, and I won't even say it's more noble or honorable, just more empowering and authentic. It is not this demons actions growing and connecting with others, it is our own instead.