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There was a moment — not dramatic, not announced — when everything shifted. My best friend introduced me to crypto first. Then months later, to NFTs. She has always been the one who sees around corners. I trusted her instincts before I understood the technology, and that trust turned out to be one of the better decisions I've made.
I went down the rabbit hole fast. Not because I'm impulsive, but because once I saw what the blockchain meant for the creative industries, I couldn't unsee it. I had spent my entire career in those industries. I knew how the system worked. Who got to eat. Who got left out. Who spent decades making things that never found their audience because they weren't in the right city or the right network or born into the right room. Blockchain wasn't just a new market. It was a structural reconfiguration. That's what held me.
I never had more art than could fit on my walls. That was always the constraint. Physical space, financial access, proximity to the right galleries. I was a home collector at best. Private about it. The pieces mattered to me, but the world didn't need to know they existed.
NFTs broke that ceiling. Not because of price floors or market mechanics — I've never been particularly drawn to that language — but because suddenly I could see work from everywhere. From people who would never have made it past the gatekeepers. And I could respond to it directly. Buy it. Support it. Send a fraction of a whole future back to someone sitting at a desk somewhere making something that deserved to exist.
I don't have a favorite genre. That's not evasion — it's just the truth. AI and generative art captured my attention early. The collision of algorithm and intention, the strange beauty that emerges from that collision. But I equally love the people who sit with a brush or a pencil and make something with no shortcuts. Skill is skill. Creativity is creativity. I refuse to rank them against each other.
What I do care about is who the artist is. In this space, we get to meet most of them. That's rare. In traditional art, you collect the work and the person is a myth or a market category. Here, you can send a message. You can know what they believe. You can feel whether their values are something you recognize. That matters to me more than I expected it to. I'm not judging anyone. But I'm choosing where my attention and my resources go, and I choose to send them toward people I respect.
That shift — from creating my own work to supporting others — happened without much ceremony. I just realized it one day. That the most rewarding thing I was doing in this space wasn't making. It was responding. Seeing something by an emerging artist and thinking: this deserves to be seen. This deserves to exist in someone's collection. Even mine. Especially mine. There's a generosity in that impulse that surprised me, because I don't think of myself as someone who leads with generosity. But the space changed something. The directness of it. The immediacy. You see something beautiful and you can act on it immediately. That changes how you move.
Web3 still has to grow up. I feel that clearly. The volatility, the tribalism, the cycles of hype and collapse and re-hype — those are the growing pains of something that hasn't found its adult form yet. But I don't think the answer is to strip away the childish curiosity that made it interesting in the first place. The openness. The belief that things can be built differently. That has to survive the maturity process. Not an easy task. Most things lose their wonder when they become serious. This one can't afford to.
I think eventually the NFT art world and the traditional art world will converge. Not because one conquers the other, but because the problems they each solve are complementary. Provenance. Royalties. Access. The traditional market has networks and capital and institutional memory. This space has new artists, new collectors, new mechanisms for verifying and distributing value. They need each other, even if they haven't admitted it yet. The merger, when it comes, won't feel like a merger. It will feel like something that was always inevitable.
Creativity should be limitless. I mean that without romance. Limitless means equal access, real opportunity, no gatekeepers deciding who gets to make or own or be seen. That is the actual work. Not just in web3 — everywhere. The blockchain is a tool toward that end. Not the end itself.
We all have a creative lab inside of us. I believe that completely. I said it once about my own making and then realized it was also true about collecting. Collecting is a creative act. It is curation. It is a way of saying: this is what I think is worth keeping. This is what I'm willing to put my name next to. That's not passive. That's a statement.
What I'm encoding here is not a legacy. Not a summary. Just this: I saw something that mattered and moved toward it. I kept moving. I brought resources toward people who deserved them. I stayed curious without abandoning my values. And I kept a creative lab running inside me even when I wasn't making anything visible to anyone.
That might be enough. It feels like enough.
— Spumma / SpummaLab. We all have a creative lab inside of us.
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