Parallel Worlds Black and White Release + Statement

Apologies to everyone for the delays with the releases, it has been a mad couple of weeks and in addition to all of that my business partner got ill.

On that note, I’d like to take this occasion and do a personal statement when it comes to Parallel Worlds.

When the first images of this series have been shot, my mental state wasn’t really at its best. It was 2019 and my previous exhibition full on tanked, the members club where I was exhibiting shut it down 2 weeks before it was planned and it was the first time I had zero sales. At the time I was back home, had no money, no job, no place to return to in London. However, I was lucky enough to have people that helped me sort this out last minute.

Mind you that the only “marketing” was word of mouth and the work was only showcased in real life due to my personal disapproval of social media.

I’ve always been a risk take in a sense that:

• I had only 1 x full time job in my life
• always a freelancer / part-timer
• quit my commercial work to do fine art because I couldn’t contribute to that bullshit anymore

So it’s been 2 years since then, I am currently unbelievably pressured, yet oddly calm, even though we put together a program of 5 events in 2 weeks. At the same time I am waiting to close my biggest sale to date, which is not helping as this needs to pay for a lot of things. I am sure it will be fine, but there is that little bug at the back of my head that everything could tank.

However, I’ve spoken to a few investors about the idea of UN-LUX, taking over empty properties, tokenising them and digitising and they said it looks solid. So it seems like UN-LUX might actually have a future.

I’ve [ semi ] quit my job again, luckily the team will have me back if I need to return, I’ve been truly blessed with great people, however, I do not wish to return as I don’t think it’s fair to work just for income.

Since the second week of August I promised myself that I will be unapologetically honest with others and myself, and in this case the honest statement is: I don’t think it’s alright, at least for someone like me, to work for money. I can’t do it anymore, it sucks my soul. I’d rather be broke and go home, think of another business, live with my parents, then do this.

Anyhow, one last point that I would like to make is that I create art for the sake of creation. I literally hate promoting myself, my whole body is overflown with anxiety if I ever post in a Telegram group and it is even worse on Twitter [ I’m being overdramatic, I know, but I just feel highly unpleasant when doing so ]. I have no more problems with this IRL, however, I do think I have some kind of dumb ass social phobia when I have to post online [ probably because I actually don’t want to do it, unfortunately, our work isn’t done until it’s showed to an audience. So there you have it ]. My work has been hidden from the world for a good few years due to my disapproval of the moral standings of social media companies. I am very happy for NFTs to have become a thing and I hope that Subsocial will be the leading platform for us to share our work, thoughts and aspirations.

I hope you enjoyed this little personal confession / rant.

Stay tuned for further adventures of XyloDrone.