SHILL Issue 50

CYBER GEISHA
JustJulialo
I am Julia, an architect and interior designer. I decided to enter the Solana space to give me an opportunity to learn
from the world of NFTS. I have only been in the space for a few months, but the community fascinates me. I thought
why not try my own collection since I can express myself with my art! And give something in exchange to the community
for the support.
I’m expressing my passion and personal ideas through unique designs and drawings. This project is not
exclusive to art collectors, but it must be stated that it is purely based on Geisha art.
I want to get my art out there in the NFT marketplace with a long-term commitment to the project. The
main idea is to develop a series of stories that follow the rise and fall of the geishas in a cyber-like reality
and publish it as value added for the NFT holders. Tokens/staking is a possibility though nothing is set in
stone. I think the NFT world is lacking a strong feminine presence and the Geishas are an incredible representation
of the gracefulness and resilience of women. I hope to reach people’s minds and hearts by showing
them a piece of myself represented in the art.
It is an art-centred project with a great story behind. Essentially, as this is an elaborate art project, I suggest
that you only join if you really like the lore and the art. Please don’t mint if this is not for you. I understand
this is not for everyone.
I decided to create geisha as part of my collection, I did a little research,
and I did not see many projects or collections of these beautiful women!
What better way to express femininity than a geisha. I also love Japanese
culture, and hope to visit Japan someday and learn from it.
It gets loud out there…
Ecosystems are an intricate thing, and Solana isn’t free of imperfections
and noise. At the early stages, an ecosystem undergoes incremental change.
Change in its norms, change in its nexus, change in its environment. If it
overcomes external shocks and internal competition for resources, it has
the potential to stabilise and grow resilient. At the current stage of the
Solana ecosystem, projects are still adhering to all sorts of standards and
paradigms, intending to bring novelties onto the table. This is good, for
it is imperative that a healthy ecosystem contains a heterogeneous pool of
actors seeking to provide value in different manners. In fact, it is an evolutionary
process that occurs both in nature and in artificially manufactured
environments. Many of those projects sitting at the top of the food chain
advise other projects to “do something unique and new’’, and in the search
for that novel idea, many have recurred to intricate premises and complex
(sometimes magical and debunked) economic strategies to provide value
to holders and investors. And it gets really loud out there…
Is this getting too complicated?
Solana is a powerful platform to be selling NFTs. It has the quality of a well-functioning ecosystem; it has
traits that promise self-sufficiency and enough potential to be worth investing in. Their communities have
a long trajectory, but let’s not deny the fact that with so many new actors at play, so many interconnections
and complex relations, the visions of such new projects become fuzzy and hard to grasp. Yes, projects
should offer value besides the art. Yes, projects can and should be ambitious. But there is a point, right then
in a regular morning when you are re-reading whitepapers after whitepapers, doing the maths in your head
of future tokens meant to be deflationary, when you put your coffee mug down on the coaster you got as
a gift from a friend that went once to Barcelona, and you sigh as you lean back on your gaming chair and
think to yourself: “this is getting too complicated”.
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