I WAS NEVER REALLY THERE

Our memory works in an amazing way. It acts as a virtual theater. Most of my childhood memories appear as negative images, undeveloped, waiting to be processed. Some others lie projected in an intermediate place, halfway between the present and the past, between reality and imagination. I remember my childhood and adolescence as a confusing scenario in which I felt permanently out of place. Books, comics, movies or video games were my passport out of a place where I didn't quite fit in. Thanks to them I was able to connect with unknown worlds. Wearing a helmet and wielding a book, I played to be a time traveler, proyecting myself into the future.

´I was never really there´ proposes a dialogue between the hidden links that connects distant and almost opposite versions of myself throughout past and present. A trading cards game between the child I was in 1984 and the working-progress-human-being I am in 2022, in order to figure out which one of them is really here.

I WAS NEVER REALLY THERE  
I WAS NEVER REALLY THERE  
I WAS NEVER REALLY THERE  

I Was Never Really There is a commission from Obscura for The World Today, the first and largest collection of native NFT photography 1/1 13,800 native 1/1 NFT photographs of cities, landscapes, communities, people, events and conceptual images that will tell our story for centuries to come, taken Mar-Apr 2022. An ode to the 1955 exhibition “The Family of Man” by legendary curator Edward Steichen for the MoMA, The World Today uses the blockchain to create a permanent record of our world, rich in metadata connections that further develop and cross-reference the stories within, resulting in a complex net of properties and rarities including 138 curated grails, 1 from each artist. The World Today 10K+ is a founding a new paradigm in the photography medium, expanding the frontier of possibilities for photography in the web3 era, and is responsible for onboarding dozens of world-class photographers to NFTs.

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