Des Lucréce

Des Lucréce pieces are often thought through as a Diptych, his blue pieces dialoguing with his red pieces in cryptic manners. The work here is almost a follow up to Emptyness, sharing similar aesthetics and exploring the same reference source material as the first piece: the Ten Oxherding Pictures of Zen Buddhism. 

These pieces seen under this context can be viewed as an analogy of the artist's journey within the WEB3 spaces and particularly the bull market within which he built his success. A journey full of adventures, oxherding a bull market, from a search, an inspiration, a vision, to catching, tending and riding the NFT wave up until the tides calm and seemingly disappear.

Now that the bear cycle is well installed and that all counters are in the red the artist proposes here a piece that urges us to return to the original ideal of the blockchain if it isn't too late. The illustration of a moment where the craze for NFT has been put to a necessary halt in hype providing the artists populating the space a chance to reconnect with the roots of this ecosystem. 

The present moment is significant for the NFT space as it is at the crossroads of proving its resilience. Artists that will manage to make it are the ones with an uncompromising vision, whose flow of ideas and creative power remains a constant flow unfazed by the world surrounding them.

It's about a balance to achieve, by being master of our fate while being open to the world. We gotta be aware and reflect on how extraordinary and epic this journey was while acknowledging that this is just the beginning. Both pieces dramatize what it is to be a “true” artist, showing it to be the ordinary self doing ordinary things in the most extraordinary way.

Artists create ex-machina, although this godlike creative power have made many lose their way, DesLucréce in comparison always remained level headed and close to his community of collectors. It's an Humbling conclusion to the entering of Lucréce on the broader artworld marketplace with helping hands.

Part of the "Monsters Paradise" serie

Artist note: "So is the bird among the flowers."