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WUNDERKAMMER by @Isakost 108 pieces / 100% on-chain / 14 Jan A capsule for the presence of an artist who has planted seeds of magic since the foundational days of cryptoart, Isa Kost's WUNDERKAMMER emerges from the lineage of collecting as a creative practice. Building a Wunderkammer, a Cabinet of Curiosities, is a practice that began in the 16th century as a way to honor objects of strange value. Now, we place such objects on blockchain. Each of the 108 objects in this Cabinet of Curiosities is a dead memory, a dead experience that has called out to be found, and Isa Kost transforms them one by one. The permanence of death becomes timeless presence on-chain. We look at our curated serial collections as a way to make a vessel that can hold an artist's presence, a means of creating a 'place' that can serve as a home base and coherent core for their body of work. The beauty of this collection and the meaning-making that it does in relation to its medium on-chain make us proud to bring it into the world. Find the collection page and further details below.

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2025 Collecting wrap: Wunderkammer by @Isakost The same curators, @sovrnart, that selected Reflection by @VanArman and Cents by Rutherford Chang also brought us Wunderkammer. Described as a cabinet of curiosities. A reflection and meditation on death. The objects that remain as life leaves them. Skulls. Seashells. Insects. Animated in minimalist svgs and preserved through the medium of onchain metadata. As links rot, as platforms close, as IPFS pins fade and more NFTs not only die but experience digital decomposure, Wunkderkammer is imo a great way to contemplate digital decay.. or at least for now in the form of onchain works.. a lack of decay. A bit of resilience. The bones left when everything else is gone. I love the medium of onchain art. What has kept me from being more of an onchain maxi tho is the medium of longform generative and generative has a bit more of a limited narrative ability. The relatively minimalist svgs of Wunderkammer however fulfill the longevity of onchain art and lean on the medium it for a particular purpose. A collection of 108, this one is still not yet sold out. For a market that generally speaking has worshipped quick sell outs, this might lead you to dismiss the work. That would be a mistake.