Tezos

RABBIT EARS

Creator

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Description

Imagine yourself as a kid in 1991, and you're sucking down Sunny Delights watching NASCAR on a 1987 Sony Trinitron with rabbit ears. All the adults around you doing the same. All of which validates to your childhood mind that: This is it. This is what the human race has come to. This is what adults do. They watch the cars. This is what you will do. You're a child, you will watch the cars. You’re a child, so all you have are the adults to model what you should do. Then this same child grows up to see the birth of the internet the birth of everything we have today, and now this child is YOU, and this artwork is taking you back to the memories of a pre internet individual and harvesting those memories But now this nostalgia is making you feel personally what we are now feeling collectively about the reality of what the so-called Web 3 Metaverse reality will be. We're now the ones sucking down those sunny delights, looking at the Sony Trinitron of today compared to where things will go. And there are children who are watching us saying, ohh, this is what it is?? This is our version of that moment before the deluge, before everything changed. This artwork evokes times in pre Internet America, and we're so far from that we can barely go back there in our memories. And we are also standing at a juncture in front of whatever the metaverse hype is or will be, but we know something's coming. The blockchain will affect a global change in how we live and think, but we're still before that change. This is a chance to remember pre Internet America and then to ask, what the hell are we on the verge of, you know, what are we, what is the coming that we can't visualize that we can't see? Just the way the person watching NASCAR in 91 could never imagine Netflix, you know, and could never imagine Twitter and Facebook and although the sort of web 2 realities that those same kids grew up to see as an adult. This is a core of of real truth and honesty of this image, and it comes from that place of childhood wonder and trust. We may we look back at guys and mullets and these day-go jumpsuits and ask how could they have been our cultural heroes? How could these have been the men that we thought we men should be? And how could the men of that say to the boys at that time: This is a man. You should be like this man. But what men are we, and what men are showing our children to emulate, and become? We are watching screens, watching the cars. Are we not? Children are watching us. We are no more and no less valid than the men that we watched when we wore those rabbit ears.