Jediwolf

Dear Artist! Here is my small gift to you 🙏 I can only imagine how beautiful - and at times challenging - your journey must be. Over the past few years I’ve been blessed to collect more than 1000 wonderful works from artists like you and have learned a bit along the way. In a small sense I think I understand both the beauty and the struggle. To offer something from my heart I’ve put together 20 points - non-obvious topics you may encounter, along with my thoughts on each. It’s subjective and imperfect - but I hope you’ll find it helpful and inspiring. 1. As an artist you put your heart and soul into your art. Who takes care of it matters far more than short-term monetary value. 2. Mint only when you are truly proud of your work. Treat every minted piece as an exhibition. Every work can be shown - not necessarily minted. 3. Your art can remain in your possession for years and still be incredibly valuable. They just don’t know it yet. 4. In art there’s no such thing as too much supply - only too little demand. Don’t worry about demand as long as you're truly proud of what you release. 5. Your integrity is above everything else. Thoughtless short-term gains can lead to long-term difficulties. 6. Don’t focus too much on the "market" or money - and there’s a good chance you’ll end up with more of it than you ever imagined. 7. A few passionate collectors are worth more than a thousand flippers. Feel free to revisit the first point. 8. It's better not to ask anyone to buy your art. Just share your joy and passion - the right collectors will find you when the time comes. 9. Most platforms, galleries and intermediaries may have goals that differ from yours. Find partners who love art more than money and work with them. Trust your intuition. 10. Utilize social media - it's a powerful tool. Network effects are real and can work wonders. Check out Sam Spratt for inspiration - his distribution models and social activity are great examples. 11. Avoid posting about your art sales figures - be proud of your art and your collectors - not what they paid. 12. Avoid competing with anyone. You’ve already won - it just takes time to realize it. 13. In reality you don't need anyone's recognition. Keep doing what you love - it's the only thing that matters. 14. Consider not enforcing royalties - make collectors want to send you royalties on their own. 15. Your intentions and goals do make a difference. Collectors can instinctively sense both passion and extraction with surprising accuracy. 16. If you’re not sure what to do - ask yourself: What would an artist I admire do if he were me? There are many reasons why the greats are appreciated - learn from them. 17. In art there is no pressure, no rush and no deadlines. Enjoy the experience and the journey to the fullest. Feel blessed as you are blessed. 18. Don’t be afraid to give - everything you give will come back to you tenfold. Study the origins of Punks and Lost Robbies for inspiration. 19. Consider becoming a collector of your own works. 20. When you achieve great success remember your roots and your journey. Stay humble and grateful. I dedicate these thoughts to all the wonderful artists who have so generously shared their hearts with me along the way. May you all be blessed to the fullest ❤️‍🔥

@goo_vision Thank you @goo_vision One of those rare moments when you scroll the feed and suddenly art stops you. You look closer and feel it. Eventually you close it. But it doesn’t leave you. So you open it again. And eventually it becomes part of the collection. Magical works🙏

Huge thanks to @Jediwolf for collecting “Serenity” 🌿 Also really appreciate you picking up editions of “Lawnfall” and “Meltwater” as well.

@balajis Code isn’t just the aesthetic. It’s the medium.

We don’t see it, but we see it every day. The aesthetic of the era is code.

@fkuhlmann What you wrote resonates a lot with what @m0dest___ is saying in my most recent interview. Thank you for sharing your thoughts @fkuhlmann x.com/Jediwolf/statu…

Fair and largely valid. But there's another point: my medium is the internet, my tool the computer, my colors, lines, and strokes are made of pixels and algorithmns, my themes are those of a networked cybernetic world. It always seemed cumbersome, backward, and outdated to me to transfer this art back into physical formats. Even 20 years ago, I wanted the audience to see my images as I see them being created, on the screen. Back then, that was difficult, and it seemed absurd to people when I hung monitors with integrated Mac Minis on the gallery wall to display my original images. Selling them as originals was out of the question, which is why I developed complex conceptual art around it and published the images unser CC license online. A decision that was a disaster from an economic perspective, but necessary at the time from a youthful, naive, artistic one. 😂 Today, here at NFTspace, all of that is normal and part of artistic practice. And that's why I love it, with all its advantages and disadvantages, even if i am unfortunatly a little late to the party and haven't been very present there yet. (But I'm working hard on changing that. Shout out to @Featurefrank for continues support of my work in many ways!)

Recently I’ve read a lot of critiques about our space: gatekeeping, speculation, taste, visibility, community, power. A lot of them are fair. Crypto doesn’t magically change human behavior. But I don’t think the real question is whether NFTs eliminated hierarchy. They didn’t. The better question is whether they created more paths for artists without major followings, gallery backing, geographic privilege or institutional recognition to become visible, find collectors and make a living. I’d argue that’s happening here more often than anywhere else in the contemporary art world. Not perfectly. Not without contradictions. But at a scale large enough to matter. That’s the test for me: not whether this space solved power but whether it opened more doors than the systems before it. I think it has.

@paranoidhill @SHL0MS "in my style" is now part of my UnderTheGAN collection 🥰

Surprise drop!! I couldn't resist being part of the fun around the controversial Monet performance by @SHL0MS Love seeing @Jediwolf supporting and the movement around it on the feed, that's the exciting part of this side of the internet, here to disrupt, debate, create. Here's my take on it, made with a painting I recently also put into "question", one of my physicals that's been shared here through the years. It's actually so fun to see the reactions. And don't feel bad if you were tricked, there's no right or wrong here. The ones who know me know I'm not in favor or against AI, I'm intrigued by art not only being made by a tool but often also being about the tool itself. "in my style" is an ode to that. A prompt I often write when using AI with my own trained agents, built from my physical and digital paintings. 1/1, that's it. Did I paint it or not? Available now, link below. Enjoy ;)

@jedi6900 😂😂

I’m sorry (not)

@Minalisa1991 Nymphéas, A Century Later 😍

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Very understandable tbh. I struggled with this too. At some point I realized some people just won’t change and reacting (even mentally!) to every bit of BS only keeps that energy alive. What worked better for me was to keep posting about the art I like, the artists I discover and the things that genuinely amaze me. It’s not perfect but over time it does change the energy and the negativity mostly dissolves. Maybe that’s the best we can do: give less oxygen to the noise and more attention to what we actually enjoy in art ❤️

@Jediwolf i have been quite burned talking about NFTs from this account and have largely stopped as a result anytime i talk about a collection or artist i like, it’s met with the fury of 1000 bagholders 😂 my comments in this thread are largely a frustration with this state of affairs

More open doors don’t automatically mean better rooms - I agree. But the right doors still matter. They expose artists to new work, new ideas, new relationships. That’s what I see here every single day. I think the hard part is expectations. Crypto got many artists used to instant attention, instant sales or instant sense of recognition. But a lot of those dynamics were never real or sustainable. Art doesn’t really move like that imo. It’s slower. The work compounds over time.

The idea of “opening more doors” sounds beautiful and theoretically, it makes sense. But in practice, the number of open doors does not equal the quality of the space behind them. You can have a hundred exhibitions, and not a single one will offer an experience that genuinely supports the artist. How can we talk about “new paths” when we keep running into the same old problems? An artist delivers their work and then waits endlessly for photos from the exhibition, as if asking for a favor. Information about the duration of the show magically shifts from a month to two days, without explanation. Communication is nonexistent, everyone posts whatever they want, whenever they want, and the purpose of the event remains as foggy as a morning over the Seine. Under these conditions, it’s hard to call it “opening doors.” It feels more like inviting artists to serve as decorative scenery: arranged nicely, expected not to ask questions, and certainly not to expect professionalism. And real quality, the kind that matters, begins with respect, organization, and responsibility, not with the number of events on a calendar. NFTs did expand access. But access without quality is just a longer line to the same dimly lit room, still lacking a plan, a vision, and a host. So yes, the doors are open. But behind many of them, there’s still the same old broom instead of a gallery.

I agree with this. "Floor prices" are part of the medium so pretending they don’t exist doesn’t really work. But when they become the main thing people pay attention to - everything else starts getting pulled around them. That’s not where I’d personally want the culture to end up again. I’d much rather see the market sit more in the background and the work, artists, ideas and joy of looking at art stay in the foreground - which is how it feels more and more today. Probably starts with what each of us chooses to talk about and publish.

respectfully, whether you put attention on the toxicity or not is somewhat besides the point i’m making it’s true a subculture still exists and is strong in different ways than before perhaps but also it should be acknowledged how incredibly off-putting the toxicity is and has been to new potential participants and existing ones selling the bottom(s) we need to stop talking about floor prices so much and talk more about art

@wsavas It depends what "fun" means. If we’re talking about enjoying art I think some people never really tried. They found joy in something else and those are not the same things. But hey - the art is still here and everyone is welcome😊

@Jediwolf i think a lot of people just forgot to how to have fun here and became way to serious... while warranted in some categories and i get that

@graffitiongrave Just yesterday I published this. Again it’s all about where artists direct their attention. Some may complain, reject it etc. or get inspired and keep creating cool stuff the world has never seen before... :) x.com/Jediwolf/statu…

The one complaining have never seen a trade art market for sure, the opportunities and access that you have in here is crazy. It's just the matter of finding your own path, you cannot blame the space for not finding a path and niche that you can do better in. I hope every artist reflect on that for good future in their art career.

I think it mostly comes down to where people put their attention. The ones who were genuinely here for art are still here, still looking, still collecting - despite all the "challenges". Others stopped buying because they were here for something else. Art was never really the priority and that’s ok. That’s the main distinction for me. Personally I never spent much energy on the toxicity or dilution you mentioned. I treated the last few years as a chance to slowly build a collection which wasn’t really possible before and it brought me a lot of joy. I also don’t think the space became weaker. What became weaker was the speculative capital around it. For me, the answer has been simple: keep looking, keep collecting, keep supporting artists I enjoy and try not to let the noise distort what’s real here :)

it has created more paths, but also more entitlement at the peak, both by some artists and many collectors a lot of people got fleeting attention when they wouldn’t have otherwise due to the unique voracity/attention dynamics of NFTs a lot of people gambled on “the next big thing” and lost big if anything, we may have diluted attention away from some of the best stuff and eroded the core of the space and it was really more than dilution. it became very toxic very quickly because everyone wanted to fight tooth and nail for “their bags” and the easiest way to do that is to attack the popular stuff worth a lot of money and try to arb asymmetry it’s left the entire space weaker with fewer belle-weather artists and collections- the kind of thing any fledgling space needs in order to establish itself idk what the solution is, and it’s likely we just repeat until people get tired of it or interest structurally fails further

@Arctefact_NFT Love this one! "over my dead lilies" is now part of my UnderTheGAN collection 🥰

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What we’ve seen is that people have tried at all costs to find reference points and benchmarks - and they still do. But I don’t think we have established ones yet which is why none of them feel quite right. Just yesterday I published something about this exact "mythology" - one that is being made right in front of our eyes imo

GM ArtWorld Why is @SHL0MS question a pre-Duchampian question? In the theories of Arthur Danto and in the wake of the historical intervention of Marcel Duchamp, traditional notions of “superiority” and “inferiority” in art enter into crisis. From this perspective, the artwork is understood not through aesthetic superiority, but through its relation to concept, interpretation, and its position within the artworld. Therefore, is @SHL0MS the Duchamp of our era? No. It seems that his question is less a continuation of Duchamp’s path than a question inspired by Duchamp’s work, one that functions as a trap. It excites the public by giving them the feeling that they have discovered something new, provoking reactions and generating discourse. And honestly, it must be admitted: it has worked remarkably well.

If I were an artist who understood what @kimasendorf @serc1n @nicedayJules are building - I’d be so inspired I couldn’t sleep! Pay attention to the brilliant minds 🙏

@serc1n Thank you @serc1n 🙏 So many incredible things have been happening in our space that it’s becoming a real challenge to keep up! But this gives me lots and lots of excitement!

@Jediwolf Thank you so much! This coming from you adds a strong layer of confidence since i know you for a long time, following your collection. Actually your threads about artists, early AI art, XCOPY inspired me a lot in this journey🤍

Finally had the headspace to dig into Normies. I don’t hold any but I love the idea of NFTs moving from static wallet objects to programmable art-software. With ERC-8004 this feels like a real step toward NFT-AI agents with artistic identity that can act on your behalf 🤔

...and one more thought - there are 1827 unique collectors holding one. An incredible number proving that we have tons of people interested in great art projects. It’s just that the bar is very high.

@supernoitinere @SHL0MS @TransientLabs So brilliant! "Game Boy - Lírios de Água" is now part of my UnderTheGAN collection ☺️

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