"Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We only see the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other." Thich Nhat Hanh
Part of Pandora's Box - a 15-artist collab with The Guild and Charged Particles. It's a very exciting project that not only nests NFTs inside NFTs, it also has the functionality of adding financial mechanisms.
The box (which is an NFT itself) contains:
aDAI generating interest
aWETH generating interest
1000 CHARGE social tokens
14 unique works of art
Read more about this historical project here, in a medium post written by Charged Particles.
Shinji Akhirah created the super cool box that encased all our artworks and he also made this wicked trailer:
I was assigned the theme of "Hatred".
So many things came to mind when I was working on this piece: the drug war and the red-tagging and silencing of critics by the local government where they always look for scapegoats for society's problems (causing thousands of deaths), the Asian Hate attacks in the US, the hate and harassment levelled against cryptoartists online - from both strangers and people I know. This othering of people dehumanizes us and makes it so much easier to hate, to attack, to kill.
I happened to be sick while working on this piece, so I think my physical state combined with the unease about the toxicity that surrounds us helped in creating a piece that captured all the negative emotions I was experiencing.
You can watch the process/timelapse video below!
View and purchase Pandora's Box and all its contents here.
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