A Glossary for the Unsigned Gestalt Community This glossary will evolve, as needed, over time. …

“The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.”–Edvard Munch There was a riveting Twitter Space yesterday, October 16, 2021, organized by the human behind the Twitter handle @IbisNft. The conversation was on the well regarded but yet to be entirely elucidated…

What French art historian, philosopher and cultural politician André Malraux has to teach us about curation André Malraux first published his essay Le Musée Imaginaire in 1947. It has often been translated in English as The Imaginary Museum or alternatively, The Museum Without Walls. There is abundant literature available online in English on the subject of this work but only a handful of articles pointing to…

How can we support one another and the growing Cardano NFT community while moving through growing pains? While I’m hesitant to draw too many parallels between finding myself in a freak accident which sent me straight to the ICU and being a tad burnt out, it’s impossible to entirely brush aside how exhausted we are as a collective. There is no shortage of information on dealing with…

Includes experientially earned wisdom for new entrants interested in swimming with the shrimps and the dolphins! — “It’s not curators, it’s not critics, it’s not the public, it’s not collectors who find great artists — it’s other artists.” — David Galenson

Staying on course while navigating the strong currents of change — For close to two years now, I’ve been working on a vast photography project called Decentralized Beauty. …

Art and life itself forever mirroring each other My adult son is about to spread his wings and fly off to build a nest of his own, half way around the world. He is my only child and the moment is both bittersweet and ripe with possibility. The great comfort of cyclicality I might buy a small piece of land and build a…

Reflections on the power to coin money and the wisdom to hold it lightly It would be good form to lead with some historical definitions about currency and whatnot but in truth, FIAT depresses me immensely, as does the crumbling paradigm that gave license to the Central Bank to counterfeit our hard earned money! …

Why the Cardano blockchain is the natural habitat of the ten Great Wisdom Goddesses I just minted a collection of NFTs on the Cardano blockchain! A Cardano NFT is commonly referred to as a #cNFT. This article offers an excellent overview of the ever evolving world of cNFTs. …