Next stop is Marfa, TX 🌵
Oct, '25
Bookings are now open for platforms, brands, and communities.
🚨OPEN CALL🚨
Unfold Gallery will also spotlight a limited number of artists as part of our official selection.
RT this post and share your artwork down below.
💚✌🏼
Open Call for Marfa, TX is now officially closed!
A huge thank you to everyone who submitted their work 💚
We're blown away by the creativity and passion you’ve shared.
Selected artists will be announced on July 30th.
Stay tuned. 🌵✨
Next stop is Marfa, TX 🌵
Oct, '25
Bookings are now open for platforms, brands, and communities.
🚨OPEN CALL🚨
Unfold Gallery will also spotlight a limited number of artists as part of our official selection.
RT this post and share your artwork down below.
💚✌🏼
This resonates deeply.
The idea that artists owe constant visibility to prove their worth is both unrealistic and unfair.
Life happens — and survival, care, growth, and distance are all part of the creative process.
We don’t lose our place by stepping back; we carry the movement forward in different ways.
Welcome back doesn’t mean “you were gone too long.”
It means: you still matter. You always did.
Idk if this is a hot take but I think the "LoOK who's an 'ARTist' again now that ETH is UP?" tweets are trash
If you (as an artist) "stayed" while the digital art market was in shambles and managed to sustain yourself while honing your craft, that's fucking great
If you "left" to sustain yourself with commercial work or a day job that let you keep honing your craft, that's great too
That kind of cultish energy that made 2021 what it was is a big part of the source material for the PTSD (or stockholm syndrome) that afflicts/ed so many
It's a reality distortion field
Good for some things (eg. buying + bonding)
Bad for others (eg. rationality + wellbeing)
Of course there are outliers, we all know them
Those that swooped in, larped as visionaries, made a bag and disappeared into the sunset while our home fell to ruins
But I'm not talking about them here, because well...why the fuck would I? They don't care if you call them out — they did what they wanted to do and you can safely bet on them attempting to do it again
The people I'm talking about are the ones these myopic takes will actually affect
The artists that did well and then had to pivot when the well dried
The artists that stepped back from this app + crypto to go open galleries in their home towns, get right with their health, make documentaries and self funded world tours to promote them, or pick up commercial gigs & regular jobs to provide for their families while they kept making art in the time they could afford to
Their lives were always broader than crypto, as ours are too (whether we act like it or not)
To these folks, welcome back!
You were earlier to this space than 99% of your contemporaries, you meaningfully contributed to a movement and then did what you had to do to one day return and be alright in the interim
Did you miss out on things while you were gone, including the hardships of those that stayed? For sure, and it’s probably best to be cognizant of that
But we missed out on what you were up to, what you had to go through and, for any of us are being somewhat rational — we're ultimately just happy you're here again
Don't get me wrong, I'm not judging anyone for being butthurt by those that did well while the going was good then left to presumably run it back when it gets “easier” again
Feeling and behaving that way is human
As is survival
A reminder for everyone interested in minting on @objktcom : please get to know the community you are entering. Spend time browsing objkt, following artists and collectors, highlighting and engaging with the art you see.
It is an incredibly talented, generous community.