Don't Wait For Permission
You can mint an artwork and sell it to anyone in the world without a gallery. You don’t need to wait for permission.
The media gatekeepers fell in the 2010’s, opening up a new world to creators. Except those creators were often paid in likes and not a currency that could pay the rent. Selling artworks using tokenised rails makes selling art for digital money possible without asking a gallery for permission.
Exhibiting '10k Project'
’10k Project’ was first minted 8th May 2022 celebrating the first 10,000 people to follow MintFace on X, or Twitter as it was known as back then.
Those 10,000 profile pictures (pfp’s) are predominantly a representation of the explosion in crypto culture thanks to NFTs. Many of the pfp’s are from the most popular NFT collections of the time, including Cool Cats, World of Women, Fame Lady Square, CryptoPunks, Cryptoadz and many many more.
I didn’t need permission to create, mint and sell 1,000+ editions of the artwork back then, and I don’t need permission now to exhibit the artwork at The Line. You do have permission to come and view in person or enjoy online.
Expression of Identity
Pseudonymous profiles were first recognised by Balaji as a likely form of un-cancellable identity. At a time where people were losing the livelihood for ‘wrongspeak’ online, the concept of having a separate digital identity was starting to gain traction. But it wasn’t just a defensive posture to adopt a cartoon character profile picture as your online identity…there is an aspirational aspect too.
- Mint Date: May 7th 2022
- Artworks: 1083 editions
- Collectors: 1,083
- Availability: Yes
- Price: from 0.045 eth
- Token: ERC-1155
Many of the NFT collections have ‘gone to zero’ yet the collections like on because the blockchain is forever. Punks, Pudgy’s and normies yet to move into crypto are all there to see in one single tokenized artwork. A piece that represents the tokenized culture that was forming for the first time in 2021.