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isolabellart@isolabellart.it.com
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I paint in oil. Inspired by time, silence, and light. Each work is unique and for sale in Bitcoin and Monero. Shop: https://isolabellart.it.com
Contemporary loneliness is not about being alone. It is about being surrounded by people without being seen. It happens in real life just as it does in the virtual world. And yet, sometimes all it takes is a sincere glance, an unexpected word, or someone who truly stops to listen to us, to remind us that we are not invisible. Perhaps that is precisely where we start again: with a genuine encounter, capable of making us feel, once more, part of the world. Perhaps #Nostr will serve this purpose too.
It always feels a little special to think that someone, on the other side of a screen, might stop in front of one of my paintings, wish they could admire it every day, and want to make it their own. Among so many images that pass by in a matter of seconds, something I created has managed to spark an emotion. And to me, that’s one of the most beautiful things about painting. #art image
My profile on Nostrich says I have about 46,000 followers. If each of them sent me just 1 sat a day – no more than that – I’d have about 1,380,000 sats a month. However, I have far fewer followers than that, and I receive even fewer sats. Just saying.
image "The Last Light" Serhii Vasylkivskyi (Ukrainian, 1854–1917) Sunset over the Lake, 1900 National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
A question for all Nostr artists: Would you rather be successful without deserving it, or deserve success without ever achieving it? In other words: Would you rather make a fortune, knowing your art is empty and sells only because it’s been hyped up? Or: Would you rather be appreciated wherever you go, but have no one buy your workβ€”even though your art has real value? But then I started wondering: Who gets to decide that an artwork is β€œempty”? The artist? The audience? The market? Critics? And if a seemingly mediocre work manages to move millions of people and generate real economic value, is it really β€œempty” after all? #art #music #poetry #literature
I wanted to try a small experiment on XMRBazaar by putting two of my paintings up for sale. After almost a month, the results are quite modest: one painting received 14 views, the other 21, and there was only one comment β€” from someone who already knew me through Nostr. Those numbers are significantly lower than what I normally see when I share my paintings on barattolo.store. Even the posts linking to paintings on my own website tend to get more views when I share them on Nostr. I don't necessarily take this as a judgment on the paintings themselves. Rather, it seems like an interesting indication of how different platforms can have very different abilities to put your work in front of people who are actually interested in it. In the end, that's what experiments are for: you try something, see what happens, and then decide where it's worth investing your time and energy. For now, I'd say XMRBazaar didn't work as I had hoped. But at least now I know. πŸ™‚
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