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A NEW PATH PAVED

so, yeah, i finally also jumped on the NFT train, only i didn’t plan it or even expect. like nearly everything in my life now, this new path came right to me, paved itself in front of me and all i had to do was just walking it. it’s an interesting development in so many ways and i’ll surely elaborate a lot more about the manifold angles of it in the future.

for now i’m sharing a registered etherium address (reinhardschleining.eth) to serve as the official announcement of my getting a foot into the metaverse and i’ll begin to share some of the available NFT’s i’ve been minting from my two portfolios (old style & new style):

rarible.com/reinhardschleining

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TRAGIC IMPOTENCE OF MONEY

***UPDATE – a slightly more polished and beautifully type-set version is part of the SYSTEMICS book.

(made available to read online for free once-in-a-while or generally with a donation based password.)

[ or ‘off the the other shore’ ]

 

CONDITIONS

We’re born naked. We die naked. As not only religion but also logic suggest, no matter how much funds we raise throughout our worldly journey, in the face of Ultimate Reality, even the most beautiful diamonds and castles merely amount to worthless chunks of mud. There is of course the argument of safeguarding relatives and loved ones, putting our kids on golden thrones and what not – but, honestly, can we really ease their various, vastly unpredictable hardships – emotional havoc, political corruption, abusive encounters, ageing, deterioration, madness – with monetary ailments? Besides, are we doing such an apparently altruistic act really unconditionally, with only their best interests in mind, or do we actually expect a return-of-investment, where we need them to do certain things in exchange, behave in certain ways, before our hard-earned juices will change bank accounts at the end of the day? As most of us haven’t been loved by our parents unconditionally, there is usually a wicked agenda behind the way how we interact with each other. Most exchanges are burdened with crooked meanings underneath and beyond the actual surface transactions. Like the sticky fingerprints we leave as soon as we touch it, Money involved in human transaction inherently corrupts any relationship through its conscious and unconscious strings attached – its Conditions.

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FAKE DEATH

i’m putting this online because i feel this is somehow a key piece in my illustration work. the coincidence is quite mad, as i’ve just the other day joked with a friend about staging my own death (whilst having my website miraculously updating itself, hahaha). and two weeks later i’m getting this commission from australia asking me to come up with an editorial piece for an article exactly looking into both the ridiculousness as well sincerity of doing something as crazy as this.

FAKE DEATH

MUSIC TRIPTYCH TEXT

this text has been created to accompany the publication of my MUSIC triptych in issue #4 of CREATURE magazine:

with the chord a boy strikes on his PIANO women are lifted off the ground and join in to a journey of collective human surrender to the random magic of LIFE. happily transiting through the skies above the cities we’ve created and whose structures beautifully mirror the FRACTAL of our own genetic diversity we ultimately enter a state of consciousness seen under the shamanic microscope of SALVIA divinorum.

 

reinhard schleining
london, 5th december 2006