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Transparency and composability are massive changes in the art market. The trad art market is opaque. There is no way to get accurate price info and there are not programmable payment rails. The crypto backbone of this market makes it a 10x-100x bigger opportunity than the old one
Funny story, at the peak of the 2021 insanity I was trying to find the best price on zodiac capsules. A display glitch looked to me like all the floor had been swept and in a FOMO panic I spent 1eth on an Aquarius zodiac. At least one of my biggest Ls was drawn by a great artist.
The combination of Kjs emotional characters and @seerlight 's settings put CH at the forefront of art PFPs and make me nostalgic for the FOMO of the very first NFT bull market.
For this reason, doing a single circle “self portrait” takes on special meaning and purpose. Especially since its coherently contextualized in the description.
I picked up the Pepe Iputsa did for the iconic Rare Pepe collection. It features Princess Peach trying to escape down a long hallway from Pepe but a giant Pepe is making it impossible. It feels like a commentary on the universal saturation of Pepe across the internet
but I decided to present it through the filter of my childhood dream. Also love to add some little side story in the details, I love when people staring around the picture and imagine “what are those things doing?”
I asked Iputsa about herself and work, she said, “I’m an artist from Bangkok. My art style has a lot inspiration from my childhood, my favorite cartoon and games. I love to tell a little story of my life that I would like to remember
The piece Head in the Metaverse reminded me of a similar R Crumb piece. Back then it was just the TV, now it's a whole lot more. The tech is diff, the art is diff but the fundamental human problem stays the same: Will u let the matrix control you or not?
The lines are intricate and jagged in a visually different way then art done natively on tablets. And this hand drawn feel of the works fit perfectly with the “retrofuture” style.