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This piece is inspired by the Congolese dandies "Les Sapeurs" who take pride in dressing in stylish, elegant, and colorful clothing.

LE SAPEUR III

Nirvana photographed by Chris Cuffaro at the "Rock For Choice" show at The Palace in Los Angeles on October 25th, 1991.

Nirvana Live 1991 #39 | Chris Cuffaro

Slices of TIME is a two-part collection, inspired by TIMEs nearly 100 year history. The collection features four editions: single red border, single white border, double red border, and double white border. The rarity of this collection was determined completely by Slices of TIME collectors and was final and set as of 12pm ET Feb 23, 2022.

The collection includes work by TIME Creative Director DW Pine and 38 incredible artists. TIME selected 19 artists, who in turn picked 19 collaborators, to create two pieces of artone inspired by a year from TIMEs past and one by what they see as a hundred years in the future. So, for example, 1969 and 2069. 

Learn more about the collection: https://time.com/collection/slices-of-time/

View the Slices: https://opensea.io/collection/timepieces-sot-slices

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SlicesOfTIMEArtists

Dave Krugman. This TIMEPiece takes us back to New York City in 1987. The city was much different than it is today. The streets were gritty, dangerous, and riddled with graffiti. Even with NYC in a state of turmoil, it proved to be one of the most fun and interesting times to be alive in the city.

This piece includes three photos divided into a triptych, representing my interpretation of slices of TIME. The top and bottom moments portray stories of companionship and happiness. These captures embody a silver lining despite being surrounded by a tougher environment. The middle frame, a DeLorean resembling the vehicle from Back to the Future, represents the time travel to and from the next TIMEPiece. The Back to the Future movies were also very popular in the years surrounding 1987. These images were photographed in present day New York.

Mike Szpot. This TIMEPiece propels us forward into 2087, a world awash in light and steam, a futurescape populated by characters that move like ghosts through city streets. New York in the future is a Blade Runner reality, a world of rain, flashes of color, and deep atmosphere. I envision a world where artists are elevated, valued for their contributions of beauty, their efforts to build the visual cortex of our collective consciousness. As network technologies evolve, we are driven deeper into a world of creative ecosystems, a world where we all rise together. We have realized that our sum is greater than our parts, we have walked back from the dark edges of division, and we work to show that at the center of it all, there is love.

TIME TRAVEL, 1987 by Mike Szpot & The fog of time, 2087 by Dave Krugman

Cory Van Lew. A shadow casted by ignorance, it fades as we move further from the past. For too long women have had to fight to be on a level playing field with man. Shining light on the queens of our world will help bring balance. As the black woman may have one of the hardest journeys, I tapped into one of my favorite muses, Kilo. This is me literally shining light on a woman that deserves to have the light shined on her as much as any man in this world.

Kwame aka DarkMythst. Complementary to the term, afrofuturism, she plays a major role in the future of all existence. She is mother, wife, daughter, sister and all that encompasses her divine natural abilities to enhance evolving of mankind. Her blue melanated appearance, influenced by the symbolism and meaning through Cory Van Lews perspective of taking the negative aspects of the blues and turning it positive. She almost appears alien-like from another world, but her beauty radiating an invitation of curiosity. She is our future. Without her, mankind falls. She is the future, and paves the way through Afrofutureherism!

The Road Ahead, 1990 by Cory Van Lew & Afrofutureherism, 2090 by Kwame aka DarkMythst

The concept of the Scary Garys PFP collection is inspired by the nickname of Goldies hometown Gary, Indiana. Throughout this series Goldie aims to transform the narrative of his hometown into a new light. The collection consists of 750 generative NFTs featuring a wide variety of entirely unique attributes. This project is accompanied by various benefits to supporters of Goldie, like access to airdrops, giveaways, and future projects.

Scary Garys

The concept of the Scary Garys PFP collection is inspired by the nickname of Mister Goldies hometown Gary, Indiana. Throughout this series Mister Goldie aims to transform the narrative of his hometown into a new light. The collection consists of 750 generative NFTs featuring a wide variety of entirely unique attributes. This project is accompanied by various benefits to supporters of Mister Goldie, like access to airdrops, giveaways, and future projects.

Gary #242

The Bodega

The Bodega is an animated NFT that parodies a television commercial for a juice-box like kids might see while watching cartoons. The products marketed to lower-income Black communities are often foods and drinks of little nutritional value which merely satisfy hunger and thirst, while upper income communities have a passport to healthy options. This animation flips the script by showing a young Black girl with her third eye open, symbolizing a state of enlightenment achieved through access to proper supermarkets, schools, hospitals, parks, gyms, and the other infrastructure necessary to build healthy communities.


ARTJEDI

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

~ Henry David Thoreau

 Image captured in a balmy summer of August in 2010. Location a boat on Bosphorus on the shore of the Black Sea, Istanbul.  My sharp eye and a fast click captured this moment with a Nikon d3000, sigma lens. Nothing fancy. Just being present in the moment. I embarked on a journey of self-discovery since then through the lens of my camera as well as my artistic tools for more than a decade. 
That was my lucky break. May it be yours too. 

Medium: Photography. Unedited. Raw. 
