NFT project combines photos and poetry to capture Japan during lockdown

While the NFT community primarily built its reputation on projects featuring visual arts, it freely welcomes creators from other disciplines. For example, through NFT music marketplaces like Sound.xyz, musicians also have ample space in space.

But what will happen to the creatives in the literary branch? As seen in the case of crypto-journalist Laura Shin’s NFT Book Club, they too have reaped the benefits of NFT. Some entities, such as Untitled Frontier, have even sold generative art as part of the short story.

Surprisingly, one area of ​​literature that has remained relatively undiscovered in the NFT space is poetry. That is, until the Visual NFT collection is launched. With the help of partners Rarible and photography-centric NFT marketplace Pinhole, Canadian-born photographer Sacha Dean Bïyan was able to successfully publish the first volume of the collection earlier this month.

Light and shadow

This collection marks Bean’s debut in NFT space, an image that travels around the world after a long career that puts the human soul at the center. Named after the photographer’s “Visual Connection” with Japanese culture, the first drop in the collection contains five black-and-white photographs of night scenes across Kyoto, Japan. However, due to the ongoing epidemic, these vignettes did not carry much of the dynamism and energy typically associated with urban Japanese nightlife.

In this photo series, Bian Covid demonstrates a clear and deliberate attempt to capture the unusual stillness found in Kyoto after dark when the lockdown is fully operational. In a press release from the collection, Bian said that this unique situation allowed him to see the “ghost of Japan’s past” in the stunning Kurosawa-Esku Chiaroscoro. Explaining his argument for obscuring his subjects for the collection, Bian shared that “Japanese culture lives in the shadows. […] There is always a conscious sense of subtlety. “

Nocturnal by Sacha Dean Bïyan

Postcard of depression

So how can literature-poetry, rightly so- play in this new launch? Despite publicly promoting and managing the project with the help of Pinhole and Rebel to assist in the distribution, Bian decided to list some special assistance when publishing the project as an artistic statement.

For example, in each part of the first volume of the collection, the Japanese poet Dr. Shunkuichi is associated with his father’s haikus. Together, the pair worked individually to capture the Japanese concept ygen In the collection – an idea that can be broadly translated as “transient beauty” […] Which, of course, made the video an overnight sensation. ”Combining these elements, the two were able to create postcards to sell to viewers on the ever-present depression in Japanese art.

Taken together, Bian believes that the brevity of the haiku form and the focus make it a uniquely complementary part to a photograph, since “both try to capture the essence of a moment, a feeling.” He doubled it, saying, “To me, a photograph is a haiku.”

Often, the best songs and poems are able to bring us back to a certain point in our lives. Great photographs can take us to distant places. This collection shows what the two mediums can do together.

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