With a little over 20 hours left to Christie's Augmented Intelligence auction, I wanted to share a bit about 14° 40′ 34.46″ N 17° 26′ 15.14″ W – the body of work it comes from and why it exists.
Let's get into it! 🧵
I am interested in how we remember things, people, or environments. Memories are subjective, points of view. They rely on emotions to become entrenched in our minds.
When I try to remember my city, Dakar, it’s usually a blend of concrete images and a general feeling about the place. It’s hard to parse out the truth from my romantic ideas of it. That’s why I think Dakar was the perfect subject for what I wanted to investigate in this body of work.
To the homies who recently joined the Tezos party 🪩 and only minted a few 1/1s at super high floor prices.
First off, welcooooome 🔥 Secondly, hear me out on (1) the low-priced-high-volume-editions model and (2) starting your own collection 🪡
One of the coolest thing about the Tezos art ecosystem is artists buying each other’s works. It’s probably why there is even a wave for people to join a year and a half down the line.
This was possible because artists made their work accessible from a financial standpoint.
Now I am not saying settle for less. What I am saying is: there is a bigger picture that reveals itself when you play with high-volume low-priced editions. It goes like this:
I started working on 'even by design' to heal creatively. Design, today, is predominantly an instrument to enact white modernist ideals. I have had to shed my heritage for the privilege of being called a designer. This is a brief story of how I came to question this privilege.
I didn't go to design school because I didn't know that designers existed. That is not to say that image-making, fabrication, or invention didn't exist where I was from.
There were just named differently. And the people who did them were called artisans or artists.
So I stumbled upon design quite accidentally. A colleague who had gone to design school told me that the way I crafted curriculum and the way I taught my statistics class reminded him of design thinking. So I looked it up.