Looking at the NFT space ("space" is what it is called, yes?), I see an endless array of repeating images. I see reiterations in row after row- it sort of reminds me of a cigarette factory or a long belt of ammunition. I wonder about where Art is going- in the West anyway. Do we have anything other than novelty? As far as I can see, the essence of Art now is novelty. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems that way. I don't pretend to be a critic but I do feel that something is missing. I don't say this out of negativity or despair but because I desire something more and I've found that making something completely new is not necessarily satisfying.
Culturally speaking, a wrong turn was taken somewhere or at least a fateful turn. Much of value was left behind. So we won the race by throwing off everything that we inherited from the past. Was it worth it?
There is something else, but what is it? Is it continuity? an unbroken or "non-disrupted" relationship to what has come before? Do we connect only to the future and escape the past? Does the attempt to escape secretly bind (and blind) us?
I don't know. The artist simply works, creates; can never really know exactly what is being made, nor why. Even the "how" and the "when" disappear. And happily so. Is this not the working of immortality?