art-collection

Seeing Tezos, Eth, and Solana prices rise as well as what it costs to mint artworks at the token native prices makes me think about the future of our art collections.  It would be impossible to replicate what many of us have built over the past few years.  What I’m excited to see is what we all do with these art collections.  That is a frontier that has barely been tapped.  Zoom out and use your imagination and the future looks phenomenal to those who are here right now building something meaningful.

Photographer & Art Collector  -                hosting 
/dogwalk /aerial /art-collection 
 www.zachlipp.com

I don't know if I will live to see it, but I think that what we have been doing for years will be important in the future. Who knows, maybe we will be part of a new generation of artists and thinkers that will be called in some strange way haha.

Nat Geo C. photographer,
Photography lecturer, lawyer &
Former skydiver
  /curatedbydilek
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I never forget about my very 1st small edition on OS which you did not grab one piece. Still feeling sad about that even maybe you remember our chat on dm about it . This one i ment

Landscape & Travel Photographer 

https://linktr.ee/korayozpalamutcu

well, this is beautiful Koray, can't collect everything! 😂

GenX girl who learned the hard way 🔹 lifelong artist 🔹 software engineer 🔹 curator of conversations 🔹 made /blend-o-rama 🔹 thinks you're cool

I am collecting art.  I could make every excuse in the world as to why I should not collect on each chain, but at the end of the day, it’s the art that I will be left with so that is my primary focus.  I’ve been a part of 4 major collecting waves.  Eth Mainnet editions which I felt I was a major part of culturally, Tezos which has the most incredible art community, Zora when I first showed up on Farcaster, and now Rodeo.  I have also collected a on Solana early but not at scale in the same way I have on Eth and Tezos.  When I create galleries, you won’t see what chain I collected each piece on, you will see the art.  That is what will matter.  It’s gonna be about what we do with the art that we have collected, regardless of the chain.  I focus on editions primarily and the art I can display so Eth Mainnet makes little sense to me at this point (gas) for much of what I collect.  I may mint my own one of ones there and maybeeee my own editions.  This is why I feel for artists.    Hard choices.

Do you “trust” the long term viability of building collections on the cheaper chains and L2s vs ETH L1? 

I have been debating with myself for months about where to mint and now have too many things to mint for the cost on ETH L1, but Base isn’t even a real L2 (it is still supported/centralized by Coinbase) and the other L2s, even Shape which supposed to be dedicated to art, don’t have easy on-ramps or large art communities yet. The Tezos Foundation is a bit shady and Solana has issues where transactions are halted or slowed down for a while which makes it seem kind of untrustworthy.

Just curious what you think as someone I feel is a serious collector. Provenance is important, but so is the ability to afford to build a collection when you don’t know for sure whether you will ever find collectors for it.