The most valuable secret of his craftsmanship he gave me was, "Never give up on your paintings, you owe it to yourself to see them through. Always. Never give up."
I promised, and now the words "never give up, never give up"
hover in my mind on repeat.
As I do battle with the canvas, the loudest thoughts in my head sound like they're from a real nightmare: "I can't paint, why did I take on such an impossible task? It's still not going to turn out the way I envisioned. There's never enough time, I won't make it. I can't mix colors, I don't know how to maintain volume - everything seems so messy and clumsy. I have tons of other things to do, the painting can wait, now is not the time for it."
But then... Then the body is already painted, the collarbone is in place, and the fish is so alive, like it's crashing in the water.
The mind calms down when the work has already begun, when the first strokes are laid on the canvas, when words of encouragement ring in my ears: "You're doing great, don't give up, you're learning so fast."
Support is what makes me seemingly talented. I am not talented, I am loved. Loved by my friends, my family, my husband, my coworkers.
In Chile, two paintings were born in 24 days — one on me, one by me.
Guillermo, thank you.
Guier, I call him that, and sometimes "mi tuto", my cozy blanket against the cold, or "I am the painting and you are the artist", or maestro of beautiful dreams.
Flying on an airplane back to my life, I wonder if life always belongs to us? Sometimes it feels like I've learned to move through multiverse. And art is my portal to these worlds.
I promised, and now the words "never give up, never give up"
hover in my mind on repeat.
As I do battle with the canvas, the loudest thoughts in my head sound like they're from a real nightmare: "I can't paint, why did I take on such an impossible task? It's still not going to turn out the way I envisioned. There's never enough time, I won't make it. I can't mix colors, I don't know how to maintain volume - everything seems so messy and clumsy. I have tons of other things to do, the painting can wait, now is not the time for it."
But then... Then the body is already painted, the collarbone is in place, and the fish is so alive, like it's crashing in the water.
The mind calms down when the work has already begun, when the first strokes are laid on the canvas, when words of encouragement ring in my ears: "You're doing great, don't give up, you're learning so fast."
Support is what makes me seemingly talented. I am not talented, I am loved. Loved by my friends, my family, my husband, my coworkers.
In Chile, two paintings were born in 24 days — one on me, one by me.
Guillermo, thank you.
Guier, I call him that, and sometimes "mi tuto", my cozy blanket against the cold, or "I am the painting and you are the artist", or maestro of beautiful dreams.
Flying on an airplane back to my life, I wonder if life always belongs to us? Sometimes it feels like I've learned to move through multiverse. And art is my portal to these worlds.
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All it takes for evil to triumph
is the inaction of good people
is the inaction of good people
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It wasn't that long ago that Prigozhin led his troops into Moscow, and before that the world experienced a covid and a war. The speed of life seems to change even the most fundamental truths within a week. We watch a rock, just erupted and overturned, lie dead weight at the bottom of the ocean, though not long ago it was considered a pinnacle of unrivalled grandeur. The difficulty of the modern world is that it is impossible to plan meaningfully for even a year ahead, let alone twenty years, which seems to be the thickest fog into which it is impossible and unnecessary to look.
Alexey has broken the barrier of fifteen years. Over the years he has been our partner, our friend, our enemy. He was a constant participant in our conversations and emotions, a builder of narrative. His death marks the end of the last link with childhood, with the hopeful tenth years, but it also marks the beginning of a new era, full of a fierce need to avenge the unbearable pain caused by the shattered lives of an entire generation.
In this context, he is not just a man; he is an idea. This death, which he may have planned himself by attacking or provoking the prison staff, is a final political act, an invitation for us to take advantage of. His death, like the political act of self-immolation of journalist Slavina, was the most powerful blow he was capable of.
Now the main focus is on Yulia and how she will dispose of the most important political capital tragically inherited from her husband.
Alexey has broken the barrier of fifteen years. Over the years he has been our partner, our friend, our enemy. He was a constant participant in our conversations and emotions, a builder of narrative. His death marks the end of the last link with childhood, with the hopeful tenth years, but it also marks the beginning of a new era, full of a fierce need to avenge the unbearable pain caused by the shattered lives of an entire generation.
In this context, he is not just a man; he is an idea. This death, which he may have planned himself by attacking or provoking the prison staff, is a final political act, an invitation for us to take advantage of. His death, like the political act of self-immolation of journalist Slavina, was the most powerful blow he was capable of.
Now the main focus is on Yulia and how she will dispose of the most important political capital tragically inherited from her husband.
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Ellen Sheidlin is set to unveil her latest masterpiece, “Annihilation — Mirage”, at the prestigious Art Dubai exhibition.
Ellen is the first global digital artist in TON who pioneered her journey on TON Diamonds with the Annihilation project. Now, two years later, the project evolves into a captivating new series named Mirage.
“Annihilation — Mirage” embodies the wealth of cultural heritage in every grain of the endless desert. The project is rooted in seven genesis stones, each harboring the soul of a desert, discovered in different emirates.
This extraordinary project will be unveiled at the Art Dubai exhibition, taking place from March 1-3 at Mina al Salam, Madinat Jumeirah. Anticipation is high, and in the coming days, we'll reveal more intricate details about Mirage.
Ellen is the first global digital artist in TON who pioneered her journey on TON Diamonds with the Annihilation project. Now, two years later, the project evolves into a captivating new series named Mirage.
“Annihilation — Mirage” embodies the wealth of cultural heritage in every grain of the endless desert. The project is rooted in seven genesis stones, each harboring the soul of a desert, discovered in different emirates.
This extraordinary project will be unveiled at the Art Dubai exhibition, taking place from March 1-3 at Mina al Salam, Madinat Jumeirah. Anticipation is high, and in the coming days, we'll reveal more intricate details about Mirage.
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ART Dubai is here! We are starting the construction... it's a nervous process, all I do is breathe deeply every 15 minutes so I don't start screaming.
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Art Dubai, tomorrow is the last day.
The most important things:
1. TON Diamonds is the only and most crucial spaceship currently launching young Russian artists to the international festival planets, and it's also the only platform that can afford the highest quality collaboration with talents. VKontakte once gifted the world with the best programmers who left our country and founded their projects abroad, and TON Diamonds is one of them, the best in the world in terms of quality, convenience, treatment of artists and collectors, and it seems to have become a true institution already. I'm proud to be the first artist on the platform, proud to have been creating art together with you for 2 years now.
2. Dubai - a global center of technology, cryptocurrencies, startups, talents has given me the opportunity to live, work, study for the next 10 years, I received a golden visa (for extraordinary talent), which means 10 years of the possibility to be a resident of this beautiful country of 7 emirates with the highest standard of living and the best taxes. At the same time, ART Dubai, curators of the most vibrant and attractive pavilion "digital art" wrote me a letter wanting to see me as a participant, it was a challenge, the biggest step in my career as an artist, I agreed and spent the next 4 months preparing for the show.
3. The fair is about sales, and excuse me for talking about money, but I had a complete digital sold out, almost a full set of sales of all prints and digital frames, rumors have reached me that we might be the best-selling in our pavilion and here I want to thank every collector and promise - I will not let you down, we are now bound by a vow to remain successful and honest, to grow the value of me and my works, to be happy and rich.
4. Among the guests was the daughter of the king, Princess Latifa, who came thanking me for becoming part of the UAE, very sweetly asking for the opportunity to photograph the stand and the works, complimenting my look and art - this attention is a valuable gift that I will remember for a lifetime. Also, Pavel Durov, who had already purchased my stones and Annihilation collections twice before, came to the fair at our invitation, I gave him a tour, separately thanking him for the TON ecosystem, for the support, this is incredibly valuable.
In the following publications, I will tell more about the works themselves, about the concept, about the internal kitchen of the festival itself.
Thank you.
Thank you!
The most important things:
1. TON Diamonds is the only and most crucial spaceship currently launching young Russian artists to the international festival planets, and it's also the only platform that can afford the highest quality collaboration with talents. VKontakte once gifted the world with the best programmers who left our country and founded their projects abroad, and TON Diamonds is one of them, the best in the world in terms of quality, convenience, treatment of artists and collectors, and it seems to have become a true institution already. I'm proud to be the first artist on the platform, proud to have been creating art together with you for 2 years now.
2. Dubai - a global center of technology, cryptocurrencies, startups, talents has given me the opportunity to live, work, study for the next 10 years, I received a golden visa (for extraordinary talent), which means 10 years of the possibility to be a resident of this beautiful country of 7 emirates with the highest standard of living and the best taxes. At the same time, ART Dubai, curators of the most vibrant and attractive pavilion "digital art" wrote me a letter wanting to see me as a participant, it was a challenge, the biggest step in my career as an artist, I agreed and spent the next 4 months preparing for the show.
3. The fair is about sales, and excuse me for talking about money, but I had a complete digital sold out, almost a full set of sales of all prints and digital frames, rumors have reached me that we might be the best-selling in our pavilion and here I want to thank every collector and promise - I will not let you down, we are now bound by a vow to remain successful and honest, to grow the value of me and my works, to be happy and rich.
4. Among the guests was the daughter of the king, Princess Latifa, who came thanking me for becoming part of the UAE, very sweetly asking for the opportunity to photograph the stand and the works, complimenting my look and art - this attention is a valuable gift that I will remember for a lifetime. Also, Pavel Durov, who had already purchased my stones and Annihilation collections twice before, came to the fair at our invitation, I gave him a tour, separately thanking him for the TON ecosystem, for the support, this is incredibly valuable.
In the following publications, I will tell more about the works themselves, about the concept, about the internal kitchen of the festival itself.
Thank you.
Thank you!
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On the last day of ART Dubai, I wore a metallic look with a stone necklace to celebrate the sale of my "Annihilation - Mirage" collection 40 seconds after the sale started.
Just a reminder, the 70 NFT collection sold for 150 TON (~$400) per stone, now the lowest price is 300 TON (~$800), owners of sTONs have already now won x2.
Just a reminder, the 70 NFT collection sold for 150 TON (~$400) per stone, now the lowest price is 300 TON (~$800), owners of sTONs have already now won x2.
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The digital section, curated by @curatorview and @aurondascalera, presented my new digital mural The Mirage, which sold on the first day of the fair for 10,000 TON (~$27,000). Inspired by the desert, illusion and the seven emirates, this work is a mirage come to life. The Mirage is a digital work created using a classic animation technique where each frame is hand-drawn.
This time, we put each character in a separate digital frame so that visitors to the fair could take their favourite Mirage inhabitant home.
Elements of my digital mural The Mirage were also presented as limited edition prints created especially for Art Dubai.
I am really impressed with the number of people who came to the fair and purchased my work. We made a record number of sales in the digital section. It is a great blessing to see so many admiring glances and feel your support!
Thank you!
This time, we put each character in a separate digital frame so that visitors to the fair could take their favourite Mirage inhabitant home.
Elements of my digital mural The Mirage were also presented as limited edition prints created especially for Art Dubai.
I am really impressed with the number of people who came to the fair and purchased my work. We made a record number of sales in the digital section. It is a great blessing to see so many admiring glances and feel your support!
Thank you!
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