Josie

The People was painted in 2019 with acrylics, spray paint and USD on a 24"x24" wood panel. "The People #0 - Original" NFT was given to the original buyer of the painting. 21 limited edition physical prints were released of this work. It cannot be guaranteed that NFTs and physicals will be sold together after initial sale. You will have to contact the current owner with inquiries.

The People portrays that bitcoin's strength and resilience comes from people united and not one authority. The piece features a female subject with her eyes hidden by graffiti spray that says, "We Are Satoshi". The animation goes on to reveal the many faces of Satoshi. The background features images of George Washington cut directly from real United States dollar bills with the words "opt out" over their eyes. This represents the Cypherpunks aka the "founding fathers" of bitcoin to which we pay respect for laying the foundation of the incredible system we have today. In the print you can read the names of some of the original people that chose to opt out of the system and create a new one. You can join them - fill "your name here"...

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The People was painted in 2019 with acrylics, spray paint and USD on a 24"x24" wood panel. "The People #0 - Original" NFT was given to the original buyer of the painting. 21 limited edition physical prints were released of this work. It cannot be guaranteed that NFTs and physicals will be sold together after initial sale. You will have to contact the current owner with inquiries.

The People portrays that bitcoin"s strength and resilience comes from people united and not one authority. The piece features a female subject with her eyes hidden by graffiti spray that says, "We Are Satoshi". The animation goes on to reveal the many faces of Satoshi. The background features images of George Washington cut directly from real United States dollar bills with the words "opt out" over their eyes. This represents the Cypherpunks aka the "founding fathers" of bitcoin to which we pay respect for laying the foundation of the incredible system we have today. In the print you can read the names of some of the original people that chose to opt out of the system and create a new one. You can join them - fill "your name here"...

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Acceptance was painted in 2018 with acrylics on a 24"x24" canvas. "Acceptance #0 - Original" NFT was given to the original buyer of the painting. Open edition physical prints were released of this work but were retired in January 2020. It cannot be guaranteed that NFTs and physicals will be sold together after initial sale. You will have to contact the current owner with inquiries.

Acceptance is part of the Genesis Series. The series consists of my five earliest works that all started as physical paintings that were then tokenized. These include Genesis - 2017, Nebula - 2018, Acceptance - 2018, Filter - 2018, and thankful_for_today - 2018.

Acceptance shows a female subject gazing at the viewer with a confident look. She is confident because she knows something that many others do not and literally cannot accept. Our current financial system is unsustainable, unfair and broken. It WILL break at some point and Bitcoin will become the new reserve asset standard. Accept this fact now and push towards adopting this fairer, more transparent and secure system.

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Yours Truly was painted in 2020 with acrylics on a 48"x48" canvas. "Yours Truly #0 - Original" NFT was given to the original buyer of the painting. 21 limited edition physical prints were released of this work. It cannot be guaranteed that NFTs and physicals will be sold together after initial sale. You will have to contact the current owner with inquiries.

The Yours Truly painting launched on February 20, 2020 and was the starting point for an incredible puzzle that I created with OG cryptoartist Rhea Myers, Blockade Founder Ben Heidorn and the Neon District team. We pulled together leading people and projects in the NFT space like Twisted Vacancy, Age of Rust, Axie Infinity, Cryptokitties, Cryptovoxels, Opensea, and SuperRare to help create a set of 9 different puzzles that the community had to solve in order to unlock a prize pool with 10 ETH and over 100 NFTs from games and artists in the space. The puzzle was solved by a group of 5 solvers, and they wrote up the solution here https://buer.haus/2020/03/03/josiebellinis-yours-truly-puzzle-walkthrough/

This puzzle represents the first time my artwork became part of an experience that the viewers, owners and community could participate in and it was amazing to see the community feedback. Yours Truly started it all but dont think this will be the last piece of the puzzle.