Ala Southiick

April 30, 2026 by Arseny Vesnin in 2026, Illustration, Portfolios, Serbia

Ala Southiick draws what she sees, where she sees it. The Serbian illustrator and environmental artist works in plein-air: sketchbook open, pen moving, catching street life as it passes.

Her technique is rooted in speed and presence. Quick observational drawings capture characters, animals, and the quiet dramas of public space before they dissolve. The method demands a certain surrender: no corrections, no second passes, just the line and the moment.

Southiick documents her outdoor sketching workshops on TikTok, filling page after page with the faces and creatures she encounters on location or showing the process of quick sketching. The sketchbooks become a kind of visual diary, not polished, not precious, but alive with the texture of being somewhere specific.

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Glass hammers by Pia Hinz

April 27, 2026 by Arseny Vesnin in 2026, Art, Germany, France, Netherlands, Portfolios, Sculpture

Pia Hinz builds hammers that could shatter at a touch.

The German-born sculptor Pia Hinz (b. 1991) works in stained glass, not windows, but objects. Screws, traffic cones, scythes, and shopping carts. Tools and labour symbols rendered in coloured glass segments joined by visible metal lines, their industrial purpose intact but their material logic inverted.

The tension is deliberate. These are objects built for pressure, for grip, for repetition, now frozen in a medium that threatens to break under the slightest force. A hammer that cannot strike. A rope that cannot pull.

Light does the rest. It passes through the coloured surfaces and casts tinted reflections onto nearby walls and floors, extending each object beyond its physical boundaries. The sculptures occupy more space than they should, fragility expanding where force once concentrated.

Hinz works between Amsterdam, Arles, and Ardèche, moving traditional stained glass technique out of the ecclesiastical context and into the territory of the everyday. The sacred window becomes a tractor door.

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Giuseppe Lo Schiavo: Between Worlds

April 23, 2026 by Arseny Vesnin in 2026, Art, Italy, Sculpture

Giuseppe Lo Schiavo makes art about the spaces between — water and air, body and simulation, the visible and what refuses to be seen.

The Milan and London-based visual artist works across synthetic photography and bronze sculpture, but the medium matters less than the territory he maps. His work circles threshold states — those liminal moments where one thing becomes another, where boundaries dissolve into possibility.

In ROTTA, his series of larger-than-life bronze dolphins, Lo Schiavo casts these creatures as guides between worlds. Dolphins exist at the border of water and air, ancient symbols of passage and transformation. One sculpture bears the phrase 'L'arte non serve a niente' inscribed along its back — art serves no purpose — a provocation carried on a body built precisely for navigating the in-between.

“They are threshold figures, between water and air, fire and water, between the visible and the invisible. They emerge as guides, as presences that offer direction.”

— Artist

For their collaborative exhibition L'Aria Aveva Una Forma — staged on Capri — Lo Schiavo joins Anton Alvarez in a liminal territory where two practices converge from opposite yet complementary directions. Lo Schiavo moves through photography and digital manipulation; Alvarez through physical, process-driven sculpture. Together they circle the same question: can emptiness take form?

He continues this approach with new fine art prints, including Helios Circle, the Ocean, and Synesthesia at Sunset. The pieces are printed on archival cotton paper in editions of 8+3 AP, with works reaching 165×122 cm — a scale that demands the synthetic image hold up to sustained looking. series approaches the same obsession from another angle, framing psychological boundaries, emptiness treated not as absence but as structure.

The concept anchors itself in perception. What we dismiss as void is, in fact, crossed by forces, memories, and invisible tensions. The air between two bodies. The pause before contact. Both artists translate this into material terms, one through image, one through object, and the exhibition becomes the space where those translations meet.

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Sad Girls by Glam Beckett

April 22, 2026 by Arseny Vesnin in 2026, Illustration, NFT Art, United Kingdom, Portfolios

We've followed Glam since her first NFT project, Sad Girls Bar, went viral in 2021 with nearly $8M in volume.

Beckett draws what lingers after the party ends. The London-based illustrator works exclusively in black ink, building worlds where sadness wears its finest clothes and ennui poses like it knows you're watching.

Her monochrome compositions explore the space between beauty and darkness, romantic, erotic, heavy with nostalgia for things that may never have existed. The absence of colour is the point. Black and white strips away distraction, leaving only the emotional core: longing, melancholy, the glamour of feeling too much.

“I realised how empty and meaningless that work felt to me. I longed to create something that held real value and personal meaning. That’s when I made the decision to fully dedicate myself to art. And it turned out you don’t really need art education to become an artist.”

— Glam Beckett

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Tallulah Dirnfeld Art

April 21, 2026 by Arseny Vesnin in 2026, Art, USA, Portfolios

Tallulah Dirnfeld paints the violence hidden inside being good.

The Los Angeles oil painter works in soft pinks and creams, the palette of girlhood bedrooms and ballet recitals, yet what emerges from these tender colours is something far more unsettling. Faceless figures in uniform, chrome horses frozen mid-gallop, severed braids arranged like relics, her canvases stage performed goodness as a kind of theatre in which the audience never quite knows whether they're watching devotion or dissection.

Her series "I Was Always Good" centres on the distortion that occurs when childhood memories age. Nostalgia, trauma, comfort, and fear mutate together into something both tender and threatening. The deliberate blurring in her technique mirrors this - precision giving way to soft surrealism, as if the paintings themselves are forgetting.

“Being beloved means being idealised, and being fully known is typically the price paid. It has a sharpness, almost a violent quality, along with tenderness. The beloved is exalted and even worshipped, but therefore distorted.”

— Tallulah

Follow up artist Tallulah Dirnfeld

Floaters by Dima Rebus

April 20, 2026 by Arseny Vesnin in 2026, Art, Portfolios

Dima Rebus paints with ice that strangers send him from around the world.

The process begins before he touches a brush. Contributors (or as Rebus calls them, “floaters”) across the globe collect water samples — from parks, alleyways, abandoned buildings — and mail them to his studio. Rebus freezes each sample with watercolour pigments, then lets it melt onto paper. The ice dictates the first layer: unpredictable blooms, mineral traces, the ghost of a place he's never been. Others arrive carrying contamination, political residue, ecological unrest — water as document as much as material.

Only then does he enter the abstract field with figurative imagery, responding to what the water left behind.

Nearly every sample arrives with a letter. Place, mood, memory, time — the contributors become co-authors before Rebus makes a single mark.

Follow up artist Dima Rebus

SPACES by Grant Yun

April 30, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Portfolios, South Korea, NFT Art

Grant Riven Yun is a Korean-American digital artist known on the NFT scene for his minimalist “Neo-Precisionist” style, capturing quiet moments in American suburbia and landscapes. Balancing life as a medical student, breakdancer and NFT OG, Yun blends nostalgia and precision in digital scenes inspired by artists like Hopper and Sheeler. His work has been exhibited internationally and featured in collaborations with Moma, Sotheby’s auctions, and NFT platforms, providing a fresh perspective on the beauty of the everyday.

“SPACES, Grant Yun’s latest body of work, thoughtfully investigates the profound transformations in our built environments driven by technological innovation, automation, and shifting labor paradigms. Created over several years, Yun’s vector-based illustrations reflect critically upon how exponential advances in artificial intelligence, remote work, digitization, and data infrastructure have reshaped the relationships between humanity, productivity, and physical space.”

SPACES is a series of 20 artworks. Each is a 1/1 NFT edition with an accompanying 3 + 2 AP print, with print edition 1 available to the NFT holder at cost. They are available via 24hr auctions (Ξ0.1 reserves) on fellowship.xyz, starting at 1pm ET on Apr 30th.

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Ballpoint pen art by Castro Adefisayo

April 29, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Illustration, Nigeria, NFT Art, Portfolios

Castro Adefisayo is a talented artist based in Nigeria, celebrated for his incredible ability to craft stunning portraits using only a ballpoint pen. His artwork showcases the diverse beauty of humanity, capturing the essence of individuals across various genders, ethnicities, ages, and socio-cultural backgrounds.

Through meticulous attention to detail and a unique technique, Castro brings his subjects to life on the canvas, inviting viewers to appreciate the intricate stories and emotions that define each person he portrays. His work highlights the aesthetic charm of human figures and conveys a powerful message about the universal dignity and worth of every individual.

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Curly Bahar

April 22, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Iran, NFT Art, Portfolios

Curly B or Bahar is a young artist from Teheran finishing her Masters in Arts. Her confident, angular brush strokes give the painting a raw, expressive energy. There's a sense of fragmentation, but it's intentional—almost like emotional cubism.

She may just started (assuming the artist career) pouring oil on canvas but the use of light feels dramatic, theatrical even it directs your focus almost subconsciously.

One also need spend some time watching her inks getting stronger in a sketchbook pages she shared on OBJKT as NFTs. Really impressive strokes catching the characters.

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Art of Khamdamov Radmirdjon

April 21, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art

Khamdamov Radmirdjon is an artist who works in various media and genres, such as painting, drawing, watercolour, monumental art, and oil painting. He was born in 1979 in Chardzhou, Turkmenistan, and developed a passion for art from an early age. He has participated in numerous art exhibitions and events, both nationally and internationally, and has won several awards and recognitions for his work. He has also visited and learned from some of the world's most renowned museums and artists, developing his own unique and expressive style.

When the artist just began his practice, he thought that there was no place for subject and figurative painting in the contemporary art world. It seemed at the time that this was often because the viewer who wants to appear trendy usually tends to go to so-called “fashionable” places to seem advanced. However, it never stopped Khamdamov from mastering his practice.

Choosing a proper model

The process of choosing a “model” to depict in an image is always a very responsible part for any professional painter, who has their strong visual language. For Khamdamov, it is always important to combine oriental motives and selfness in his oeuvre.

He pays great attention to compositions with fruits, which is typical of the Eastern tradition. Pomegranates often become objects of his creative interest. This fruit is recognized as a symbol of Central Asia. It is quite difficult to imagine many Eastern dishes without it, many of which are also, in a way, works of art.

The composition is especially worth highlighting – Khandamov adheres to the academic principle with a clearly defined centre and wings. The artist notes that this approach is ideal for interior painting. A typical collector of such works wants to see more joy and abundance in his home, and Khandamov's canvases just emphasise this point.

From a technical point of view, it is worth noting that the artist deliberately chose the format of realism, and from a technical point of view, all the paintings are painted with glazes, which brings Khandamov closer to the old masters whom he loves so much. In conclusion, it is worth noting that the work of Radmir Khamdamov compares favorably with many of his contemporaries in terms of monumentality and choice of themes. The artist deliberately adheres to the academic path, where skill and symbolism reveal the personality of the author.

City Pop by Hiroshi Nagai

April 17, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Illustration, Lifestyle, Japan, Portfolios

Hiroshi Nagai (b. 1947) is a Japanese artist known for his vibrant, nostalgic illustrations that capture the dreamy essence of summer. Inspired by the 1970s and ’80s pop culture, his work often features palm trees, swimming pools, and sleek architecture under bright blue skies.

His signature style became iconic during the rise of Japan’s City Pop music scene, especially through album covers like Eiichi Ohtaki’s A Long Vacation. Blending clean lines, bold colours, and a calm, minimalist aesthetic, Nagai creates timeless scenes that feel both familiar and surreal.

@hiroshipenguinjoe

𝗛𝗲𝘆𝟰𝗿𝗼 solo exhibition 𝗙𝗔𝗦𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 2024.8/17 at Excube Japan

Heyshiro - Painting in Whispers of Light

April 13, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Japan, Portfolios

Heyshiro’s approach to acrylic is unlike anyone else’s. Instead of bold, heavy strokes, he builds up his paintings slowly—thin, watery washes layered over faint sketches of colour. The effect isn’t just an image; it’s an atmosphere, a depth that feels almost luminous like the light is coming from within the canvas itself.

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His recent portraits are quiet but powerful. They start fragile, almost tentative, before sharpening into clarity. The surface doesn’t feel painted so much as breathed onto—soft, delicate, like fog on glass. Then, at the very end, he anchors it all with faint pencil lines, just enough to pull that dreamlike quality back into reality.

Heyshiro doesn’t just paint figures. He finds them, layer by layer, through light and shadow, working at a pace that feels more like meditation than art-making.

@hey4ro

Transhumanism by Joanna Grochowska

April 07, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Photography, Portfolios

What future do we want?

What must we do to get there?*

"TRANSHUMANISM" is an exhibition and a conceptual book by Joanna Grochowska affirming the transhumanist philosophy, worldview, and movement. Building on her earlier project Opening the Future (Munich, 2021), Grochowska explores the merging of human and technology, embracing concepts of human enhancement, morphological freedom, and the aesthetics of the posthuman condition.

Through distorted, purposefully incongruous, and slightly unsettling imagery, Grochowska confronts viewers with evolving notions of beauty, pleasure, and identity. The works are more than speculative visions of a dystopian AI future—they challenge the ethical boundaries of what it means to be human in an era of unnatural, edited, and superior life forms.

Latest “Transhumanism” solo show took place at the Galerie Verbeeck - Van Dyck in Antwerp.

The TRANSHUMANISM exhibition continues and extends the discourse initiated by Jeffrey Deitch’s 1992 Post Human series, drawing upon the ideas of thinkers like Elon Musk and Raymond Kurzweil. It addresses shifting paradigms of gender, body, and self in the face of accelerating technological evolution—ultimately seeking a new aesthetic language for the future human form.

Discover Joanna Grochowska’s book, “TRANSHUMANISM,” a compelling monograph featuring insights from Raymond Kurzweil and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner.

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The Art of Leisure by Kaeli VanFossen

April 08, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Art, Digital Art, AI Art, NFT Art, USA, Portfolios

In the heart of San Diego, where the innovation pulse beats strong, and the artistic spirit thrives, Kaeli VanFossen is redefining the boundaries between technology and art. With a vibrant personality that mirrors her work, Kaeli waves hello to a world where acrylics blend with pixels and traditional canvases coexist with digital screens.

Whether you are an interior designer on the hunt for that perfect piece that will transform a space, or an NFT art collector looking to diversify your digital portfolio, Kaeli's art offers something for everyone. Her diverse range of works, from the tactile richness of acrylics to the innovative edge of digital and AI art, ensures that every viewer can find a piece that resonates.

@kaelivanfossen

VXN

April 03, 2023 by Arseny Vesnin in 2023, Digital Art, Graphic Design, Glitch, NFT Art, Argentina, Portfolios

Buenos Aires-based Victoria Campobello, is known by her artistic moniker VXN. Her artistic style fuses 3D software and sculpture to deconstruct and transform bodies and environments. Through a blend of techniques, themes, and visual languages, she crafts intricate compositions that straddle the line between figurative and abstract, merging seemingly disparate aesthetics.

VXN's work envisions the interplay between nature, organic growth, sexuality, and cyberspace, capturing the digital age's disconnection between mind and body. She leads a collective of Latin American creatives at @CryptoArg_, focusing on digital art, physical exhibitions, and metaverse events in the NFT space. They aim to encourage a slower, more contemplative approach to art consumption and bring a conceptual mindset to the crypto-verse.

As a freelance 3D designer, VXN collaborates with clients in the fashion, music, and advertising industries. She is committed to challenging the limits of digital artistry and experimenting with various mixed-reality tools.

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Alina Grasmann art

April 30, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Germany, Portfolios

@alina_anila

Alina Grasmann is a painter based in Munich.

“I am a painter and I mostly work in series and in large scale and oil on canvas. Each series is based on a specific location, that I try to examine more closely in my paintings. I have just finished the work on my last series „Sculpting in Time“, which was on view at Fridman Gallery in NYC until early January. The paintings show rooms of the urban utopia Arcosanti, which was designed by Frank Ilyod Wright student Paolo Soleri in the desert of Arizona. Ideally, my work is shifting somewhere between fact and fiction. The rooms shown in „Sculpting in Time“ become chambers of wonders, in the sense of baroque imaginariums. I try to fill a ruin, so to speak, with life again. But you will never find people in my paintings.”

— Re:Magazine

Read full interview on Re:Magazine

Media.Work for SPACE10

April 27, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Agencies, Russia

Media Work studio run by Maxim Zhestkov has been commissioned by SPACE10 Lab to develop a set of scenes about the global climate stressors that captured the essence of each phenomena.

@Media.Work

SPACE10 is a research and design lab, on a mission to create a better everyday life for people and the planet.

Exploring societal, technological, and environmental shifts likely to influence people’s lives in the coming years, they wanted to visualize the different ways that climate crisis is manifesting itself, through climate stressors.

“To support their different projects and articles relating to the crisis, these visuals will then be used to highlight in a beautiful way, nature we all love and remember.

Our task was to create visualizations of three phenomena: wildfires, floods, and droughts. The focus was on how these processes unfold over time and, eventually, become massive forces that alter entire ecosystems.” - says Media Work

“Visually, we looked for the balance between aesthetically pleasing and alarming — we had to show the phenomena as something important that is happening here and now, although, not to create frightening catastrophic images that would leave the viewer hopeless.” - continues Media Work

Jon Ching Art

April 26, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Illustration, Portfolios, USA

@jonchingart

Jon Ching is a self-trained artist originally from Kaneohe, Hawaii and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Steeped in natural beauty of O’ahu, Hawai’i, his island upbringing instilled in him indigenous lessons of appreciation and respect for nature, forming the foundation of his fascination with the natural and wild world, which deeply influences and drives his current work.

Jon’s devoted art practice and detailed realism is inspired by the interconnectedness of nature. His work is a surreal imagining of what limitless wonders and combinations nature can produce. New creatures and symbioses emerge in his meticulously rendered oil paintings, exemplifying the endless potential of life on Earth through metaphor and allegory.

Jon’s ultimate hope is to inspire love and admiration for the universally unique beauty and intrigue of our planet. He regularly works to bring awareness to endangered species, the current mass extinction crisis and climate change and continues to partner with environmental organizations in fundraising and educational efforts.

OFFF 2021 Virtual Experience

April 23, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, OFFF

@offfest

Introducing OFFF.INC, the corporation generating hallways to further worlds. This is the doorway to the many phenomenal worlds interpreted by each OFFF artist's personal vision.

Until we can meet face-to-face again, OFFF moves to a virtual world powered by Futura Space where all the activities scheduled for the 2021 edition will be celebrated. OFFF is hosting an immersive experience as you’ve never seen before. They are excited to introduce you to out-of-this-world realities. This metaverse broadly understood as a persistent, shared virtual realm is no longer just fodder for science fiction.

“This world OFFF 2021 powered by Futura Space will always be on; it’s live and in real time; its experiences and content will be created for and by our community. The metaverse will allow you to interact with other participants through personalized avatars: make new friends, chat, networking, walk through the different spaces of this virtual world, attend the 36 talks of our speakers and workshops that will be organized, a free zone with surprise content.

We conceive these other worlds not as single destinations to which everyone goes by default, but as a complex network consisting of browsers, indexes and portals. One constantly buzzing with activity, where our community can go whenever you want, and do whatever you want.

One significant feature of the metaverse is its interoperability. That is, my ability to travel across it, hopping frictionlessly from portal to portal.

Welcome to the OFFF metaverse, alternate digital realities where people work, play, and socialize. You can call it the metaverse, the mirror world, the Magicverse, the Spatial internet, or Live Maps, but one thing is for certain, it’s coming and it’s a big deal.”

OFFF 2021 SPEAKERS LINE-UP

How do you get in?

You will be able to access this universe directly from a link that we will share with you later, without the need to download applications and from any PC or Mac. It will be preferable to access from the Google Chrome browser. If you use MacOs Big Sur, you must access from Mozilla Firefox. The platform will not be accessible from your cell phone or tablet. You will need to create a username and password and enter your login ID to access.

Open portals

OFFF 2021 will be a 6 days event from May 3rd to May 8th, and will run everyday starting at 12:00 to 21:00. As soon as we open our portal, you will be able to access our virtual platform, create your personalized avatar and walk through our world.

OFFF.BARCELONA

TICKETS

One Thousand Ksoids

April 22, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Illustration, NFT Art, Portfolios, USA

@myshli

1000 original and collectible KSOIDS 3D characters by VFX artist Danil Krivoruchko -- NFTs with a heart and meaning, now at OpenSea

NFT Opensea

Meet the Ksoids, an impossibly addictive NFT collectible that not only creates a world all its own, but also helps protect our world.

Each one of these curious creatures was generated by a hand-crafted algorithm and then lovingly selected by creator Danil Krivoruchko to join an elite group of 1,000 Grade-A Ksoids, all available to the discerning investor.

The first few drops will be sold on the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and available in randomly selected packs of 1, 4, and 10. It’s also possible there will be a few easter eggs thrown into the mix, but that’s all we’re saying for now.

We reserved an original release format for a special #collectable. A group of 1,000 Grade-A Ksoids dropping by the pack! Randomly selected by an algorithm, each pack has 1, 4, and 10 Ksoids. Available on the #NFT marketplace @opensea, the first batch of 100 KSOIDS dropping today! pic.twitter.com/gd6OpSD6Pf
— One Thousand Ksoids (@ksoids_home) April 22, 2021

Clap your hands! Mind your head! Make some noise! Here they drop! KSOIDS! #NFT debut is tomorrow on @opensea! Made in 2013 by award-winning studio @myshli_com finally coming as NFTs! We will bring more news out about the KSOIDS cutielicious project! #NFTcommunity, stay with us! pic.twitter.com/y7L6ECj5rN
— One Thousand Ksoids (@ksoids_home) April 21, 2021

Charity Donations

Thankfully adopting a Ksoid doesn’t have to mean decimating either their habitat or ours. In an attempt to counteract NFTs’ negative environmental impact, Ksoids will work to reduce their footprint through the purchase of carbon offsets.

Not only that, but 20% of all profits will be donated to the Orangutan Outreach, an organization dedicated to protecting orangutans in their native forests, while also caring for orphaned orangutans.

ksoids.com

Brooklyn-based Myshli Studio was founded by Danil Krivoruchko, a motion designer, director, and visual effects artist. Krivoruchko's NFT works are already well-known to digital art collectors, having been featured on platforms such as KnownOrigin and Foundation; the Ksoids will mark his premiere on OpenSea. His digital art work is also well-known in the film community. Last October, a collaborative group of designers and artists under the direction of Krivoruchko used 3D-imaging to transform the sci-fi novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts into a short film. The movie has won over a dozen awards, including the Best Animation Award at the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival. In the past 17 years, Danil has collaborated with clients such as Apple, Nike, Boeing, Verizon, and Intel, to name a few.

Pia Hinz builds hammers that could shatter at a touch.

Choosing a proper model

What future do we want?

What must we do to get there?*

Alina Grasmann is a painter based in Munich.

Media Work studio run by Maxim Zhestkov has been commissioned by SPACE10 Lab to develop a set of scenes about the global climate stressors that captured the essence of each phenomena.

Read more on Visual Research of this case study on Media.Work

Introducing OFFF.INC, the corporation generating hallways to further worlds. This is the doorway to the many phenomenal worlds interpreted by each OFFF artist's personal vision.

OFFF 2021 SPEAKERS LINE-UP

1000 original and collectible KSOIDS 3D characters by VFX artist Danil Krivoruchko -- NFTs with a heart and meaning, now at OpenSea

Charity Donations