There are limitless potential-avenues to ‘success’. In the context of this essay let’s agree that meme approximates something like
professionally capable of engaging in healthy market relationships, with participants most resonant to the creator’s inherent memes.
This provides a width of contextual variety while capturing a coherent direction to work through this essay. A few weeks ago I saw a great question.
What?
Indeed. What? What are we doing here?
Not necessarily in the existential sense, though much of my creative work is focused there. This inquisition is more so pointed toward the success vertex.
It took a couple years but I am no longer dumbfounded at the amazingness that is ‘onchain’. I still submit to my endless ignorance that encompasses this behemoth; I’m just able to see past some of the denser fog.
All that to say, what are we the visual-art early adopters of the onchain art era doing here beyond showcasing our work?
My current thesis is:
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Propagating our inherent memes globally in search of resonance
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Tagging the blockchains for the ensuing collective art history & art market
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Building market fit creative verticals that leverage the immutability tech
Why?
The chaotic neutral answer is why not?
Beyond that evident truth, I would love to hear from other creatives here. For me, the why is because the art is priceless meme is distorted. Art is conscious communion insofar as I can tell.
The vulnerability and precision required to make potent creative material requires:
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a life of introspection
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a chaotic existence
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a confrontation with your morality/divinity
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the risk of losing your mind to the craft
If it’s something you partake in, then you most likely have something only you can uniquely share. This is my belief.
So the why of my current thesis is because an art market that is global, decentralized, and self-propagating to resonant collectives, has profound implications on humanity - especially when you factor in ai-human synthesis, interstellar travel, and anti-aging.
A world where creatives achieve this cultural integration like never before is a more considerate, more intelligent, more diverse, and more creative world. This is why art is priceless. And why I believe we are doing something very significant onchain atm.
How?
I’ve tried countless times to overcomplicate this, but it’s really quite simple in hindsight. For me, I need a place to distill the experiential wisdom gathered through trials and errors. It not only provides value to the market, but helps me better understand and use material from those experiences. This is what @FUTURENOW is for.
Then I need a place to define/organize my memes and scale them globally to the resonant collective waiting to find me and join in on our memetic propagation. This not only allows me to freely express that which is uniquely me, but also allows for a new way to build Hyperstructures (read more on that here). This is what @Abstraverse is for.
Beyond those two verticals I need a fluid, market-facing brand that is more about the ‘brains’ than the work or aesthetics. Partnerships, consultations, and networking are heavily predicated on the merit (or perceived merit) of individuals. People want to talk with Colm, not KidSuper. If successful at building the previous two, I need a personable port of entry for networking with other market makers. This is why I built @LGHT.
Positive Sum
The unspoken beauty of onchain flourishing is an exponential curve of what the internet did for creatives. Factor in the removal of fortune 500 monopsonistic contract abuse, we are looking at an age where there is plenty more than enough to go around.
What? A better world to exist in, definitionally not euphemistically.
Why? Because it’s better for everyone involved.
How? Will look different for each, but probably more than just minting art and listing it.