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Gm👁️ - Who’s at Basel this week? Many, many years ago, Basel HK was my first ever major art experience, wish I was there! - I’ve been quiet here lately as some new areas of my life have required my full volume😎 But I’ve been watching, and I’ve been thinking about this space and all of you here slugging it out, for the culture. - @ArtBasel Hong Kong opened this week with the second edition of Zero 10, their dedicated section for digital art. @AOTMgallery, @artblocks_io, @bitforms, @PaceGallery… If you told me five years ago that these names would share a floor at Basel under a banner specifically built for what we do here, I’d have probably been one of the few who believed you. - Meanwhile Christie’s closed their digital department last year. NFT Paris cancelled. Growing pains are real, and businesses need to work to persist, the universe owes us nothing.. And yet the latest Art Basel/UBS survey says 51% of high-net-worth collectors purchased digital work in the last two years, making it third in total art spending! The people and institutions that arrived for the hype have cleared out. The infrastructure that remains is being built by the people who never left. - I often view the world via economic lenses. Early markets reward whoever shows up. The middle period rewards those who refuse to leave (often against their better judgement). And eventually, the market matures enough to reward quality and established networks above all else. We’re somewhere in that transition right now, and I know it’s painful for a lot of artists and collectors who put everything into this. But the ones still refining their craft through this stretch are building something that compounds in ways most people won’t recognize until later. - I’m curious, what’s exciting you in the space right now? Whats worrying you? What are you working on that nobody’s seen yet? Is it different than past efforts? What keeps you convicted that this is your highest path as an artist? - This conversation brings to mind a work of art I collected recently: Artwork: Unreal, @MattiaPannoni collected on @SuperRare. Artist notes: Unreal captures the growing influence of technology, which not only manipulates reality but also distorts our perception of what is authentic. The power of decay increases as human abilities to alter the natural world advance, ultimately turning into a weapon against ourselves. The forest, usually seen as a haven of tranquility, becomes a battlefield where the individual must confront not only technological oppression but also their own fears and insecurities. The photograph captures a moment of epiphany, an instant when the individual realizes that they are both the source of the chaos and the key to its resolution. The scorched landscape around her is not just destruction but an act of purification, a sign of her determination to transcend the boundaries imposed by artificial reality. It’s no longer just about survival, but transcendence about discovering a truth that exists beyond the illusions created by technology and the mind. This image reflects the journey of someone who, trapped in a world of constraints, is forced to confront their darkest fears, struggling not only for physical freedom but also for mental and emotional liberation. Her path is arduous, marked by storms of uncertainty, but it’s also a declaration of strength, an act of defiance against a world that seeks to consume her. Within the work lies the hope of a new beginning, a reality where the individual can finally be truly themselves, free from the distortions of an increasingly unreal world. This shot delves into the complexity of the struggle for authenticity in an era dominated by manipulation. It’s an invitation to look beyond the illusions, to find the true essence of reality in a world that constantly seeks to confuse and distort. Destruction becomes an act of creation.