Market meltdown, mental health and blockchain: the medium is the message with Kerry Shaw

Welcome, Kerry Shaw, our first guest NFT artist with big plans for an amazing project connecting consciousness to technology. In this episode, we cover the current state of the market, how it connects to mental health and what to do during a bear market. Kerry shares her story of how she turned tragedy into beauty and sparked her reason for becoming an artist and why she picked blockchain and the community of Web3 to launch her new project, Found In Voids. Using the stories of people, she is creating a tapestry of interlinked NFT’s in a visual way that has never been done before. Listen in… you’re in for a treat.

1:00 LUNA/UST, Celsius, mental health - OH MY!

3:50 What to do when the market goes south - create! 

5:00 introducing Kerry Shaw

7:25 mental health and art

8:30 I became an artist because…

11:15 “The medium is the message” Why did you pick web3?

15:45 “I learned the computer” what amazes me now is how quickly we can create 

17:40 consciousness into the technology

19:00 it’s our job to translate for other people 

21:15 using blockchain as journalism 

22:30 the placement of the stories

26:10 the magic number and the artist process

28:20 I can show up as me and you can show up as you

30:30 no allow list - we are anti-FOMO

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