I've just minted my latest handmade paper collage artwork as a NFT on the Hive blockchain which you can view and purchase at https://nftshowroom.com/gallery/julianhorack_collages-julescape-q1-2025_when-soul-dreams.
It's the third so far this year, so production has been slow, although still an uptrend compared to zero the year previous. This work I call When soul dreams. You can see those words spread out over the collage in cut-out letters, old school style.
This collage style is visible in all my NFTs in my gallery. The protective dragon figure in the top right of the work is also a regular recurring theme, symbolizing Balarama, or Ananta Shesha, the serpent or dragon carrier or protector of the deity Vishnu.
I completed this collage in March 2025, though have only just minted it as NFT. It was done during a very rare planetary conjunction, which took place in March, involving Neptune, Saturn, Sun and North Node aka Rahu. This peaked around the time of the full moon lunar eclipse in mid march 2025.
The last time Saturn was conjunct Neptune was in 1989, around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the USSR. This time we have Russia at war with Europe and USA, which is an interesting coincidence. This Saturn conjunct Neptune actually fully peaks in February 2026, a few months from now, so anything is possible with Russia between now and then. Curiously President Vladimir Putin has in his birth chart horoscope this same Saturn conjunct Neptune.
Here in this collage we see the Sun king in gold riding on his chariot underwater, in the realm of Neptune. Everything is underwater. The colors of red against the aquamarine is a familiar theme seen in other of my collage artworks in my NFT gallery.
This surreal dreamscape fantasy art piece suggests the realm of the unconscious, here seen as the underwater realm, now being traversed by the solar deity, symbolizing the journey of the conscious self into the dream realm when remembering dreams, only to return with them like hidden revelations back to the light of day.
All around surreal underworld creatures lurk, yet the sun king rides on undaunted, and protected by his dragon back-up force.
Like other collages, this one is made by hand using scissors and glue, adding found images from magazines, reworking them to form a new image. This is then scanned and then minted as NFT at the showroom.
I have made only 2 editions of this NFT artwork, so as to add to the exclusivity, and only one is for sale at the cost of 21 Hive tokens. The other NFT remains in my personal collection, only to be sold if there is a valid demand.
The original paper collage is also mine and is also available on request if someone wishes to have it as part of the art collection. We can always discuss a good trade.
All my collages are pure hobby and fun, and minting them as NFT is also part of just having fun and being creative, without any expectations whatsoever. I don't expect many collectors to buy my work, though some kind artists have bought some of my cheaper works in support, which is what I like to do in turn, by purchasing a few art pieces for my NFT collection at the Hive NFT showroom.
Image my own.