Since I first jumped into NFTs earlier this year I've changed direction and my buying plans a few times.
I started off buying literally anything and everything, minting projects without research then watching as those projects and collections became effectively worthless. I wouldn't consider it all a waste though, I've learned a lot and it has shaped my course through NFTs, so I decided to stop chasing pumps and to start buying things I genuinely liked. This is when my NFT spending moved more and more into art over collectibles.
It's not only that I believe there is a higher chance they will retain their value over time but if they were to go to zero I'd still be happy with the purchase and could display it.
My very first NFT was art and I liked it so much I ended up buying about 10 from the same artist, sadly the artist Portsy seems to have disappeared and hasn't created anything new in a while but this one will definitely be one I have displayed at some point -
Maybe it's the girl, maybe it's the black and white, maybe it's the lights, maybe it's all those things brought together in this piece but I really like it, it's my favourite from the Humans of 2074 collection!
Twitter is one of my main tools for finding and researching NFTs and by pure chance an artist commented on my tweet about reaching 100 NFTs asking if I had one of his, I didn't but I checked out his work and it was REALLY good. The artist was a guy called Matt Lu.
He mentioned he had a drop the next day and I told him if I made a few sales I'd get one. Being a man of my word I managed to offload some bits and jumped into his drop buying three pieces, one was by accident, I thought I had cancelled the transaction but it still went through...I certainly wasn't complaining though!
Matt's main collection is called For the Love of Line. I like Matt's art because it's different and bold, within the main collection there are sub-collections and a lot of variety, the fine detail is always apparent and one of the stand out features of his art. There are multiples as well as 1/1 and as soon as I saw this one I knew I had to get it -
Yellow and blue is my favourite colour combination and thanks to Matt I spent 30 minutes looking for an old pair of 3D glasses so I could admire his work through them, I don't know if it was the intention but some pieces look even better with them! As a result of buying this I also got an unexpected gift, all ten people that purchased a "Zero Fox/Michael J" were treated to a free airdrop called Ghost which was a really nice touch and much appreciated.
I definitely recommend taking a look through Matt's collection, you have to see the detail and consider the work that goes into creating these individual pieces. I've got three of his pieces on my list to buy so hopefully by the next time I write about art I'll have some more of his work to show off.
This next piece was one which made me stop what I was doing. I was searching OpenSea activity mid-October and saw a piece called Modular from an artist known only as OneRobot. I liked the style so I bought it and marked OneRobot down as an artist I need to check regularly, and I'm glad I did, I came back and found he had a new piece called Maono. You know how it is, you're searching OpenSea, scrolling Twitter and talking to people at the same time but as soon as I saw Maono I literally just stopped and admired it, it's such an incredible piece and I still can't decide if its a mannequin, a real person or completely computer generated. I stared at it for a good amount of time and went back to buy another one, there are many in the collection I would like to own but for now I have 3 pieces and will definitely be back to buy more.
Nearly everything I have bought has been found through Twitter or browsing OpenSea, but not this last piece. This is an artist I discovered from another project, the first time I became aware of her art was from Chapter 5 of The Collector Chronicles. The artist is Catherine Bélisle and she creates "broken hearts healed with golden scars".
I'm starting to think I may have a thing for black and white as I chose this one called Surrounding Protection as my favourite. Surrounding Protection was on my "to buy" list for a while, I was checking everyday to make sure no one had picked it up before me and it was a great relief when I finally got it. My decision was not only based on the art which I think is stunning, the concept with the broken hearts and repairing is from a Japanese art called Kintsugi where broken pottery is restored with gold, silver, or platinum lacquer and is designed to incorporate the breakage into the history of the object rather than an immaculate fix that hides it. I think this translates perfectly into hearts as we suffer a wide range of emotions throughout our lives that shape our characters and the people we become and yet we often hide these emotions or events and pretend they didn't happen when they have had such a profound impact on our journey through life.
You can see the process of how Catherine creates her art in this piece called True Happiness.
While writing this I realised there's a lot of art I would like to display and wanted to include in this post but to avoid it being too long I thought I would stick to four. I hope you enjoyed the pieces as much as I do.
It is important to me that in recent times when projects are losing financial value I have collected some really beautiful and interesting pieces with a value I can't put a price on, so whether it's Japanese inspired hearts or Swahili inspired Robots I'll keep collecting those eye catching pieces with stories and visuals.
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