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The wages of Greed #289

Creator

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Description

Today my 80 year old mother was scheduled for abdominal surgery. As I waited anxiously for word of the outcome I noticed something didn't look right with my MetaMask wallet. After signing in and out numerous times I realized with utter terror that my 3 Ethereum accounts had been drained of 47 ETH. I had been extremely foolish in not transferring the funds to a hardware wallet, something on my to-do list for what seemed like forever. Sick to my stomach and feeling a rushing panic I spent the rest of the day trying to rectify what I knew in my gut would be a massive financial loss. 2023 had been an incredible year professionally and financially for me and it will likely also go down as one of the most challenging. Sitting down for dinner with my wife in a still terrible mood, I felt an urge to just scream and hurl my phone at the tv screen. Then (fortunately) I realized I needed to respond in the way I knew best and almost immediately the theme and vision for this collection came to me, including my desire to give this work away for free to the wonderful souls in our community who support me everyday and are in this for the art, the love and friendship. Yes, we all need and enjoy money, but I began my life as an artist knowing that there would be financial hardships along the way, and really it has only been later in my career that I've experienced some more comfort. Though I am still upset about this substantial loss, I am grateful too for the reminder of my true priorities, my family, friends and my practice. Also, my mother's surgery was a huge success, so still many, many things to be grateful for.

Token

Contract: KT1A1m...QRzJ
Token ID: 16108

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