Some Pebbles have sold for serious money. BUT here's the thing —
The art already belongs to everyone.
Every one of the 1,000 Pebbles is CC0. You can download it, print it, remix it, sell products with it — no permission, no fee, no exceptions. What collectors own is the registered provenance on-chain. The image itself is public domain, forever. That's what makes this collection radical. The market and the commons coexist.
The 14 Pebbles with the ATH sales values are on display now at Domínio PúbliCC0 6529. Free to visit. Free to use.
Pebbles #0024 · Magma Mambo · ATH sale 15.00 Ξ · Owned by @Ars0nic
Pebbles #0688 · Coral Reef · ATH sale 10.00 Ξ · Owned by 6529Museum
AND 👇
As it was fully on-chain, Certificates had to be on-chain as well. They were generative art done by @Ze_blocks and @6529er
Course was free and certificate fee was 0.25eth (optional). You can check them here (choose an artist under traits to filter)
https://t.co/eKYIzDs0lZ
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First and foremost, thank you to @Casa_NUA and @HugoFaz.
Reading this thread was incredibly moving.
When @Cheaterflums and I created Pebbles, we hoped people would spend time with the work. We never imagined an entire gallery would dedicate itself to helping visitors understand not just Pebbles, but generative art, CC0, and the ideas behind them.
Introducing the PEBBLES Exhibition!
1/ PEBBLES (Seixos in Portuguese) is the 3rd curation of Domínio PubliCC0, the 6529 gallery operated by @Casa_NUA in São Paulo, Brazil, and the 1st to present an entire CC0 generative art collection to audiences IRL: the 1,000 Pebbles, created by the artist duo @Ze_Blocks (@Ars0nic and @Cheaterflums) on NextGen, 6529's on-chain generative art platform.
Where the previous curation celebrated 6529 Memes as cultural units built to replicate and spread, this one asks the visitor to slow down before something that looks simple — pebbles, the smooth, rounded stones that time and water polish — and to find, in that simplicity, one of the most radical gestures in the art of our time.
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