Sharing the darkest parts of the quarantine, this AI/Gan Art depicts June 2020 - July 2021 and a unique cocktail of events that led to my own unfortunate experience. 

Art has been the medicine to heal the grief and help me push through during this most difficult era in human history. May we seek to understand the systemic patterns that create these barriers to access and better healthcare for people who live and love in a way that wasn’t written into oaths and textbooks. This art is for the ancestors who carried me through and the wonderful circle of women and spiritual humans that guide my hand and support me.

“Instances of pseudocyesis have dropped significantly in the United States over the last century. In the 1940s, cases of false pregnancy occurred in approximately 1 out of every 250 pregnancies. That number has declined to between 1 and 6 cases for every 22,000 births.” - False (Phantom) Pregnancy: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments, Healthline.com


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QueenEarth

Every community has a story weaved into the fabric of what we are creating everyday. The more I stay engaged in Web3, the more I am seeing the potential of our future, especially from a collective lens, if we are to make the best of the opportunity. 

While I was driving South from Baltimore to Charlotte, and back, I listened to Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America, a book by Candacy Taylor. It chronicles the history of the guidebook used for Black travel in early-mid 20th Century USA, as new roads and cars filled new cities in new and occupied places. In post Jim Crow America, this guide became a valuable tool for safety and survival, and contributed to the success of many Black businesses along the interstate highway system, away from the lash and the South and into freedom, wherever that begins.

My wife took a photo of my angel on my dashboard, and she drew a doorway on our tablet, while we hung out with my sister and my Dad on our arrival. I made more art and searched and dug deep into the stories that I'd heard on my own road trip. If all of our methods came together on this canvas, we are less interested in my story, and more of what the viewers see, how our blueprints and roadmaps help others on their own journey into the metaverse, through their own past and future. This mashup evolves my/our artful techniques of creating mixed media collage visuals with hand drawing and vintage text and imagery. 

When I first arrived in NFT land, I was bullied in Web3. I had expereince similar dynamics when I worked at start-ups, lived in Silicon Valley, no matter my degrees and my experience, there are folks who constantly ask me to prove why I belong and why I am worth their time or investment. I know it all too well. I pressed onward, and I tried to advocate for inclusion. I was removed from spaces. I wasn't given the same agency as my peers, and instead of arguing, I hit the canvas. I imagined I was a gan machine and I built something intricate that reflects my journey as a Queer, Black, Woman, person, and the obstacles that have been used against people like me, to segregate and exclude.

Here are the images and text in my search, all inspiration to create Dreamer Handbook.

Green Book
Baltimore redlining maps
Vintage cadillac
Black Nativity
Mt. Sinai
Plantation
Rearview mirror
Winding roads
Car radio dashboard
Black hands
Steering wheel
Underground railroad
Mason Dixon
Segregation signs
Universe
Integration signs
Apartheid signs
Nazi Germany signs
Moon
No Vacancy signs
Metaverse hotel

I have dreams of buying land and having a parcel in the real world. I may be able to do that with the connections and roads that I travel as an NFT artist. I believe that history and culture are some of the most important things we can place on the blockchain. If we are pioneers, this is how we start the next frontier, as Web3 artists. The lessons from the best and worst in exploration will be blueprints. I hope other people learn history, inclusion and exclusion, and culture building vs destruction. 

There will be folks who close doors in my face. 
There will be people who are in places before me.

I hope I am welcome when, and wherever, I/we arrive. 




The Roots of Web3 Travel: Dreamer Handbook
A Digital Mixed Media Collage

This piece was originally titled, Grief + Black Maternal Mortality + Racial Tension + Covid 19 = Pseudocyesis

Art has been the medicine to heal the grief and help me push through during this most difficult era in human history. May we seek to understand the systemic patterns that create these barriers to access and better healthcare for people who live and love in a way that wasn’t written into oaths and textbooks. This art is for the ancestors (especially my Mother) who carried me through and the wonderful circle of women and spiritual humans that guide my hand and support me. Sharing the darkest parts of the quarantine, this AI/Gan Art depicts June 2020 - July 2021 and a unique cocktail of events that led to my own unfortunate experience. 

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Black Maternal Mortality
“The US has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed countries. About 700 women die each year in the US due to a pregnancy-related complication either during pregnancy or within the year after delivery, says Dr. Wanda Barfield, Director of the CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health.

“What's even more striking is when you're looking at the differences between Black and White women,” she says. . . Since 1987, the rate of pregnancy-related deaths in the US has steadily risen over the past three decades according to the CDC. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women, according to the CDC.” A Crisis WIth A Crisis - Cnn.com

Pseudocyesis
“Instances of pseudocyesis have dropped significantly in the United States over the last century. In the 1940s, cases of false pregnancy occurred in approximately 1 out of every 250 pregnancies. That number has declined to between 1 and 6 cases for every 22,000 births.” - False (Phantom) Pregnancy: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments, Healthline.com


Grief + Black Maternal Mortality + Racial Tension + Covid 19 = Pseudocyesis

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Grief + Black Maternal Mortality + Racial Tension

While I was driving South from Baltimore to Charlotte, and back, I listened to Overgound Railroad: The Green Book. My wife took a photo of my angel on my dashboard, and she drew a doorway while we hung out with the author.

I am drawn to blueprints and roadmaps, how they help others on a journey through past and future. This mashup is a mixed media collage; hand drawing and vintage text and imagery. There are pieces scattered across Tezos. 

If I were the gan/ai, here are the images in my search to create The Dreamer Handbook.

Green Book
Baltimore redlining maps
Vintage Cadillac
Black Nativity
Mt. Sinai
Plantation
Rearview mirror
Winding roads
Car radio dashboard
Black hands
Steering wheel
Underground railroad
Mason Dixon
Segregation signs
Universe
Integration signs
Apartheid signs
Nazi Germany signs
Moon
No Vacancy signs
Metaverse hotel

NFT owner may resell and publicly/privately display the art. Owner may not reproduce, prepare derivatives, or distribute copies. 

Queenearth

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