justin yao

We're thrilled to announce that Moonbirds: Diamond Exhibition drops on April 27! Keep reading for more info and to meet some of the artists. 📅 Key dates 4/18 Day One Diamond Nest “Choice Pass” airdrop 4/24-4/27 Choice Pass preference selection 4/27 Choice Pass raffle + airdrop

This collection is a deeply personal one for me and I’d love to give some additional context. It’s all about those feelings of being a kid and waking up in the middle of the night on the couch after all of the day’s television broadcast has ended (which it used to do, for those who remember). There used to be these screens that told you that there was nothing left or air, typically coinciding with a tone or a song (national anthem in many cases). There was something about that feeling of “there’s nothing left today to show you” that brought in this sense of tremendous unease; as if all of the grown ups had gone to bed and that comfort that a glowing television had once provided now gave this eerie projection of “end of broadcast”. It felt like you shouldn’t be awake. Like if ever there were monsters, here’s why they’d be. It felt unpredictable. It felt fearful at times. But mostly it felt like the all of the adults who ran the world were gone — if only for a moment. Here, at this time in our current climate, it felt like the right time to explore this experience. And to build something that recaptured that uncertainty and tension of a world that felt unpredictable.