Aley

I make what I love. Apparently people buy it • $340k+ in NFT sales • SuperRare Artist + 5 more platforms COLLECT MY ART ↓

[Aley @AleyArtist]

$340,000 in NFT sales. Only my own art
I still don't fully understand how
I just didn't stop✨

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In progress

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GM nice weekend ✨

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The Artist / The Arts

Available’s TWO ONLY on SR

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@King_PRomulus 🙂🤍

[Aley @AleyArtist]

After The Odyssey, one thought hit me and I can’t shake it off.

Literally everyone draws inspiration, one way or another, from what came before them. And so on, and so on, in an endless chain. How secondary art really is! And yet, from the reproduction of one thing, something new is born, though still by analogy with what already existed. Even if that thing never actually existed and was only written down on paper.

It’s amazing how much the meaning matters, the idea that people pour into something.

Take the Trojan horse. If you really think about it, it’s complete nonsense. A huge army can’t take a city for years, and then the enemy sees a giant wooden horse at the gates and everyone’s like: “Oh, a gift! Let’s drag it inside.” Nobody asked where it came from, nobody looked inside. By all rights, this should sound like a joke about the most gullible people on earth.

But it doesn’t. It sounds like a great symbol of cunning and only because Homer was the one who told it. The very same absurdity, told by someone else and without that weight of historical depth, would’ve stayed just a silly tale. But in Homer’s framing, it became a “timeless classic.”

And this is where it gets really interesting because it says something about us as a system, and a fairly primitive one. Our consciousness, which we love to think of as something lofty and unique, on this level works like the simplest mechanism.

An idea catches on not because it’s smart or true, but because it’s well-packaged and copies well. Memetic replicators: meanings, images, stories live by the same laws as genes, it’s not the best that survives, but the one that reproduces best.

We’re just the medium they multiply in, the carriers passing them along.

And greatness often lies not in the event itself, but in who told it and how. There always has to be some kind of foundation: something people already know, a shared cultural baggage, prior experience. Without that foundation, even the most original idea hangs in the air, or feels raw, uninteresting, unnecessary. But the one that lands well on the foundation of the “great and eternal” will live for thousands of years, regardless of whether it was true or absurd.

[Aley @AleyArtist]

After The Odyssey, one thought hit me and I can’t shake it off.

Literally everyone draws inspiration, one way or another, from what came before them. And so on, and so on, in an endless chain. How secondary art really is! And yet, from the reproduction of one thing, something new is born, though still by analogy with what already existed. Even if that thing never actually existed and was only written down on paper.

It’s amazing how much the meaning matters, the idea that people pour into something.

Take the Trojan horse. If you really think about it, it’s complete nonsense. A huge army can’t take a city for years, and then the enemy sees a giant wooden horse at the gates and everyone’s like: “Oh, a gift! Let’s drag it inside.” Nobody asked where it came from, nobody looked inside. By all rights, this should sound like a joke about the most gullible people on earth.

But it doesn’t. It sounds like a great symbol of cunning and only because Homer was the one who told it. The very same absurdity, told by someone else and without that weight of historical depth, would’ve stayed just a silly tale. But in Homer’s framing, it became a “timeless classic.”

And this is where it gets really interesting because it says something about us as a system, and a fairly primitive one. Our consciousness, which we love to think of as something lofty and unique, on this level works like the simplest mechanism.

An idea catches on not because it’s smart or true, but because it’s well-packaged and copies well. Memetic replicators: meanings, images, stories live by the same laws as genes, it’s not the best that survives, but the one that reproduces best.

We’re just the medium they multiply in, the carriers passing them along.

And greatness often lies not in the event itself, but in who told it and how. There always has to be some kind of foundation: something people already know, a shared cultural baggage, prior experience. Without that foundation, even the most original idea hangs in the air, or feels raw, uninteresting, unnecessary. But the one that lands well on the foundation of the “great and eternal” will live for thousands of years, regardless of whether it was true or absurd.

[Aley @AleyArtist]

https://t.co/kyPdJ4S6GQ

[Aley @AleyArtist]

The Artist / The Arts

Available’s TWO ONLY on SR

[Aley @AleyArtist]

I just got up to pee at 7 am 🫪

[Aley @AleyArtist]

First I got sick. Then my hand. Migraines, reliably twice a week, like clockwork
In between: work, cooking two or three times a day, immigration paperwork. And I'm also supposed to run an art blog and actually make the art, while I'm not even photographing anything around me, or myself lol

Life felt simpler at 25. And honestly, I think it was!

Everything is different now
But here's what I've realized: art doesn't wait for perfect conditions. It's born right here, in the middle of all this complicated chaos

and that's exactly what makes it real

[Aley @AleyArtist]

First I got sick. Then my hand. Migraines, reliably twice a week, like clockwork
In between: work, cooking two or three times a day, immigration paperwork. And I'm also supposed to run an art blog and actually make the art, while I'm not even photographing anything around me, or myself lol

Life felt simpler at 25. And honestly, I think it was!

Everything is different now
But here's what I've realized: art doesn't wait for perfect conditions. It's born right here, in the middle of all this complicated chaos

and that's exactly what makes it real

[Aley @AleyArtist]

Who’s waiting for the new drop 👀

[an @anloremi]

thinking about how speculation was the main driver of the ‘21–‘22 nft bubble, and how it was also the downfall of it. maybe to bring nfts truly into the mainstream we need to make people fall in love with collecting for the sake of collecting, just digitally. then we’d have a sustainable mass market that doesn’t burst.

[Jenni Pasanen @PasanenJenni]

Yeah, speculation and hype. It basically repeated exactly same when meme coins came. Most did not buy NFT's for what ever the NFT was; collectible, art or anything else similar, but as token with potential gains.

That's why building factual narrative around digital assets, from collectibles to art is important. As now word NFT is seen just as a scam that happened, even tho it would have been one of biggest thing happen in field of all kind of native digital things, from digital art to even digital objects inside games to ENS and all.

Thanks to flippes, scammes and greedy people, now we have work 200x harder and longer to get there. To even be seen anything serious in eyes of people who only know the narrative that was set by those ballsacks in 2021-2022.

[Aley @AleyArtist]

Everything in the Universe is made of the same elements. We are particles of space, woven into one living ecosystem 🌿

Two last Divas from Nature Divas: Origins are still looking for their collector:

ND105 “BEWARE!” ⚡ a gentle warning wrapped in beauty

ND107 “WINGED CLOUDS” ☁️ a soft dream floating between worlds

The Origins story is almost complete. Maybe one of them was waiting for you ✨

[Aley @AleyArtist]

https://t.co/JQtCNjf31a

[Aley @AleyArtist]

Everything in the Universe is made of the same elements. We are particles of space, woven into one living ecosystem 🌿

Two last Divas from Nature Divas: Origins are still looking for their collector:

ND105 “BEWARE!” ⚡ a gentle warning wrapped in beauty

ND107 “WINGED CLOUDS” ☁️ a soft dream floating between worlds

The Origins story is almost complete. Maybe one of them was waiting for you ✨

[Aley @AleyArtist]

Do I need a vacation?

[Aley @AleyArtist]

When you're a full-time artist and also create NFTs for fun, I've been using 4 brush tip since the beginning of the year 🫪

*When you've worn the plastic down to the metal, it's already time to throw it away*

[Aley @AleyArtist]

When you're a full-time artist and also create NFTs for fun, I've been using 4 brush tip since the beginning of the year 🫪

*When you've worn the plastic down to the metal, it's already time to throw it away*