Parker Ito: exploring The Pilgrim’s Living Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble

Verse Talks

00:38 - Welcome Parker Ito

05:25 - Tumblr, Post-Internet scene and finding community

12:20 - The effect of early success

20:30 - Disillusionment with the art world

24:25 - What caused the market to boom

26:28 - Deep lore, Basel 2015 and Leonardo DiCaprio

30:01 - The compromises needed to work as an artist

33:03 - Through-lines and stylistic tropes

35:10 - A non-hierarchical approach

38:17 - Discovering NFTs

39:50 - Balancing the traditional art world and the NFT space

42:27 - Cultural friction and the benefit to the stigma around NFTs

46:00 - Finding the Solana scene

48:17 - Horses, Drifella 2, Drilady and Parkerito.net

52:55 - The Pilgrim’s Living Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble

58:10 - Traitmaxxing, repetition and composition

01:01:55 - The working process of the Living Room Crucifixion

01:10:50 - Ambiguity within the art work

01:13:17 - The work as a metaphor for a psychological space

01:16:15 - Objects, layers and series traits

01:19:01 - Beyond Living Room Crucifixion

01:21:20 - The artist residency at the Bellagio

Parker Ito: https://x.com/creamydreamy

https://verse.works/series/the-pilgrims-living-room-crucifixion-mona-lisa-hyper-gamble-by-parker-ito