Huma House

Been Free: Incarcerated Artists NFT Project is created in partnership with Hillman Grad’s co-founders, Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani, and Huma House, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles that supports the needs of currently incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people through art and creativity. Been Free elevates the work of four artists, Kenneth Webb, Gary Harrell, Asia Johnson, and Kush each who have experienced incarceration and have embraced the power of art to tell their unique stories.

Been Free: Incarcerated Artists NFT Project

Mabel Poblet Pujol

These four works are a digital expansion of the physical series Mi Otoño (My Autumn), reflecting on the lightness and fragility of existence and experience. Forms of a pyramid and spiral mirror human and earth elements in a defragmented state, representing both physical and spiritual transformation through sensory exploration.  

Mi Otoño (My Autumn)

Joelle McTigue

Over centuries, mariners returned to the Mediterranean with seeds and plantlings. In The Mediterranean Botanicals Collection: Bay of Kotor, I examine how the pursuit of empires, trade, legacy, medicine, religion, and aesthetics forged the coastal landscape of the UNESCO protected site.

The bay's naval fleet peaked at 300 ships to protect its prominent salt trade in the Middle Ages. But, its mariner history potentially traces back to the Balkan Bronze Age. Over millennia, great European empires (Roman, Ottoman, Venetian, Napoleon, Russian, and Austro-Hungarian) owned a piece of the Bay of Kotor for strategic and merchant gain.

Present-day, the Bay of Kotor strives for architectural revitalization and preservation while maintaining its wild beauty and traditions. Venice, Italy, continues to finance the restoration of Kotor's Venetian structures. Retired naval facilities around the bay have converted into five-star resorts and marinas welcoming some of the world's largest yachts. At sunset on July 22nd, sailors arrive for the custom known as fašinada, throwing rocks in the sea near Our Lady of the Rocks, a sailor-formed island near Pearst.

The Mediterranean Botanicals Collection: Bay of Kotor collection are manually-manipulated botanical photographs I took within Montenegro's Bay of Kotor. The work emulates stained glass to celebrate these roots of identity and nature through the contemporary window of technology.

The Mediterranean Botanicals Collection: Bay of Kotor

Maxwell Step

The Black-bit series consists of unique pixel art illustrations of black individuals experiencing different emotions and states in life. Each square on its own can't give you the full picture but placed together, it all makes sense.

Black-bit

Shay The Surrealist

The Blooming Blossom series consist of unique, afro-centric floral portrait edits. Each blossom has their own special traits such as different types of flowers and butterflies. The Blooming Blossoms series is about embracing change, uniqueness, and inner beauty. For this drop, I created 3 new Blossoms: Blossom IV, V, and VI using a bouquet of pink flowers.

Blooming Blossoms

Humberto Diaz

In the Lost Sanctuary, we come upon an asteroid or floating island lost in the metaverse. Within it, a humpback whale is living inside a giant metal and concrete structure that functions as both a home and a cage. Beds of natural grass cover the structure, nourished by the water blown by the whale, creating a small ecosystem. A visual game is generated between the open and enclosed spaces, the inside and the outside, the free and the cloistered. 
 
Lost Sanctuary hides an environmental message and provokes a conversation around the survival of species that inhabited the planet long before us and their subsistence in a metaverse that will probably supplant our physical existence as well.
 
This is a genesis NFT project by Humberto Díaz, with the collaboration of the 3D artist Victor López and the composer René Rodriguez. All elements were created in 3DMax and have an original sound composition specially made for it. 

Lost Sanctuary

Marigoldff

The mystic temple holds the powers of protection, nature, and technology. It is a sacred place that exists nowhere and everywhere at once, thanks to the concepts of multiverse, space and time. Each sculpture within the temple represents a specific power and could not exist without the others.