Erika Rand
@erikarand
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Costa Rican American artist, filmmaker & art collector. International exhibitions, Art|Basel, Beeple Studios, TIMEPieces. ❊ We are one ❊ #bayc
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For the past five years, I've been collaborating with members of the Hopi tribe on a photography project. We wanted to share some background on the work. (thread)
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The Amazon rainforest provides 20% of the world’s oxygen, home to up to 30% of all species. It has been on fire for 3 weeks with no media coverage. When it’s gone, we’re gone. Please! Help protect one of our earth temples, infinitely more precious than Notre Dame.
#AmazonFire
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Introducing a project that supports the Hopi tribe. 50% of proceeds go to the Hopi community which has been deeply impacted by Covid-19. RTs appreciated, your support means the world! ❀
#NativeAmerican
#GrandCanyon
#photography
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❤️🔥 OPEN CALL
❤️🔥 Times Square billboard for women's month
Women / female identifying artists, submit your art for inclusion on a Times Square billboard alongside artist
@niceaunties
! At least 5 artists will be chosen.
1 Share your square format (minted or unminted) art or…
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Honored to introduce the Light of the Hopi photography project: . 50% of proceeds go to the Hopi community.
#EarthDay
#love
#beauty
#nature
#photography
#southwest
#indigenous
#culture
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CRAZY NEWS! ❤️🔥 I’m honored to announce that my work has been selected for the exhibition next month at BEEPLE STUDIOS!
“Mourn” is dedicated to my father. So moved by this, and by everything
@beeple
is doing to uplift art and artists. 🥹🫠
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Dad’s last moments were totally peaceful. During his last few days he was surrounded by his dearest family and friends, gentle music, family singing, and reassurances that it was ok to fly free. 🕊️ We congratulated him on a life honorably and beautifully lived. During the final…
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I'm Erika from Costa Rica / American Southwest and this is my art
I'm Alizé from Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. This is my photographic art:
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Thanks everyone who took part in Art Lovers' Lounge open call for the Times Square exhibition w/ NiceAunties! There were so many incredible submissions, it was hard to narrow them down to 11 (from 644!) Here's the final curation (thread).
We're live w/
@NiceAunties
& some of…
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I made these photographs from the roof of my building on that perfectly clear September day in 2001. Sending love to everyone who lost a loved one, and to the first responders who survived that day, but are still suffering from lung problems. 🙏🏼🖤
#September11
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Honored to have curated these wonderful artists together with
@niceaunties
to present their work in Times Square during NFT NYC.
Thank you Niceaunties & congratulations to the artists! Experiencing your work at 91 feet high was so powerful ❤️🔥
(music licensed from Premium Beat)
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@DiscussingFilm
Such a moving tribute to Princess Leia! 🤍 Here's my photograph of Hopi R2, created by artist Duane Koyawena & engineer Joe Mastroianni. The Star Wars resistance story is symbolic to many native tribes. George Lucas drew inspiration from the Hopi tribe for some of his characters,…
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Another female nft artist killing it today! 🔥🚀 Congratulations
@Julie_Pacino
!!! SOLD OUT! Who wants to join me in sharing your Keeper?! (1st nft project to fund a feature film)
#womensart
#Womeninnfts
#photographer
#filmmaker
#lfg
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Grateful to collect from amazing
@benson_apah
.
"This work is the tale of a nation and a people. The proud denizens of the equator, bathing in overhead sunlight all year round; wealthy in Melanin pigments and blessed with a multidimensional culture spanning over 200,000 years...
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Hi friends! ❤️🔥 An update - I took a hiatus from social media after my Dad and close friend died, getting Covid, and dealing with toxic mold. Quite the ritual, but I'm grateful for the time to mourn and heal up. I'm happy to be back and more inspired than ever.✨
I'll be starting…
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@RodriguezBarron
@LorraineDWilke
@johncatsjr
I’m deeply sorry for your loss. Beyond heartbreaking. I’m so inspired by people like you resisting, despite pain. Sending love ❤️
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Playing with some dance animations on my CloneX! (one of the first 3D rigged characters for the metaverse) Thx
@RTFKT
& Takashi Murakami
@takashipom
🤯
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Happy Earth Day! I'm giving away one signed 12x18" print. Your choice of any photograph from the planet gallery at RT + follow to enter xx
#earthday2021
#giveaway
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Happy Women's History Month! ❤️🔥 Thought it would be fun to kick off the month buying some women's art (I'll have time early next week). I'd love to see some of your favorites, or latest! (this is one of my documentary photographs from 2005, backstage Cirque du Soleil)
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@brettachapman
Exactly! ♥️ Here’s Hopi R2, painted by artist Duane Koyawena
@DiscussingFilm
Such a moving tribute to Princess Leia! 🤍 Here's my photograph of Hopi R2, created by artist Duane Koyawena & engineer Joe Mastroianni. The Star Wars resistance story is symbolic to many native tribes. George Lucas drew inspiration from the Hopi tribe for some of his characters,…
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10,000 followers! 🙏🏽🌸 To thank you I'm giving away 2 NFTs from women artists
@Julie_Pacino
&
@SakshiK1991
. To enter pls follow, RT & comment your wallet address. Monday I'll use a random comment picker to announce the winners! 🌸
#giveaway
#giveawayNFT
#WomensArt
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The Hopi tribe lives in some of the longest continually inhabited villages in the US, on three mesas in the Arizona high desert. Hopi culture is known worldwide for its vibrant traditions and spiritual practices. Historically the tribe has rarely been photographed.
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Join artist
@niceaunties
& me for an Art Lovers' Lounge conversation on AI art! ❤️🔥
#AIart
Wed Mar 6 ✫ 11am ET / 4pm UTC
Link to set a reminder ↓
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50% of proceeds from the sales of the NFTs and photographic prints go to the cultural groups, individuals, or villages photographed. The other 50% supports my continued work on the project.
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For summer solstice tomorrow we're holding our first intimate Twitter space for Light of the Hopi. 🌞 My primary collaborator elder Seymour Lomakema will be singing a song with his drum, answering questions & talking about our artistic collaboration. (Link & more info below) 📸🤍
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Wow 644 submissions! ❤️🔥✨ Curators
@NiceAunties
@FARRAHXYZ
& I will dig into all of the beautiful work now! We’ll announce winners tomorrow on another Art Lovers’ Lounge
#WomensMonth
space (5pm PT / 8pm ET / 8am GMT+8) Set your reminders 🎉
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Light of the Hopi is a collaborative project that aims to create art that serves as a meaningful cultural resource and supports a range of work within the tribe (including cultural preservation, healthcare, farming, and the widely admired Hopi arts).
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BIG NEWS ❤️🔥 So grateful to be one of the artists curated for the
@sloikaxyz
Times Square billboard! I made this animated piece to honor my bedbound father, who I've been caring for over the past two years. The work speaks to destigmatizing death. My father and I believe...
🗽Save the Date! 🗽
🔸Friday, Nov 3 at 1pm ET🔸
🤩35 VIBE artists will be featured on a giant billboard in Times Square!!
🥳More details and watch party link to come!
🔔Set your notifications!
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Hopi, like other indigenous sovereign nations, endure systemic racism and economic exploitation. Roughly 70% of the Hopi population lives below the poverty line. They face uranium mines and oil drilling in their most sacred ancestral lands, arsenic contamination in their water.
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We are creating a series of photographs (an NFT collection & prints) and a book of the photography, written by Hopi authors and editors. The book will offer Hopi perspectives on the personal, cultural, environmental, and spiritual themes explored in the photographic work.
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aanddd the final is live ❤️🔥 Just minted this piece blending an artwork by
@KeziaBarnett
and one of my own to the SYNERGY Foundation world (original images & Foundation link below)
Work in progress ~ a bunch of AI artists are working on a new project called SYNERGY, using AI tools to blend work between two artists. My first blend with
@KeziaBarnett
is working with minimal portraits, her image (left) and mine (right)
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Hi! I'm a photographer. For portfolio day, here are some black & white images from the American Southwest. The portraits are of Hopi women on the edge of the Grand Canyon, and a Hopi eagle dancer.
#portfolioday
#portfolioday2022
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Honored to be part of
@spacemontage
's
#Vibe
collection on
@SuperRare
and to be exhibiting in Rome & Times Square! Thank you
@sloikaxyz
for including my work in your beautiful curation. Join us at the launch party today at 12pm EST 🕊️ (more detail & link below)
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Some of the photographs and more information on the project can be found at . If you have any feedback or questions for us, please feel free to send me a DM. Thank you!
#NativeAmerican
#native
#culture
#art
#photography
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Work in progress ~ a bunch of AI artists are working on a new project called SYNERGY, using AI tools to blend work between two artists. My first blend with
@KeziaBarnett
is working with minimal portraits, her image (left) and mine (right)
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gm from the American Southwest 🏜️🕊️
(ce n'est pas une photo)
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gm 🌹 Happy Friday!
🤯 My piece "Mourn" which exhibited earlier this month in Rome's Mecenate Fine Art gallery will be on a 91' billboard in TIMES SQUARE today! It's a piece honoring my father ~ I'm over the moon that my father & I will be watching it today. Thank you
@Sloika
!
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Please join artist
@SimonRaion
& me for an Art Lovers' Lounge conversation on post photographic art! Bring your questions ❤️🔥
Wed Sept 20 ✫ 10am PT | 5pm UTC
Link to the space to set a reminder ↓
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!!! After being in the ICU for a week while helping care for my Dad before he passed, 🕊️ I have COVID. 103 fever, no sense of smell or taste, ringing in the ears… How big can the ritual get?! 😆 My husband said it’s like my final battle wound in caring for my mostly bed bound…
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@SuperchiefNFT
@nftshoweurope
@foundation
// Raw Courage
Mourn, let go, expand. Beyond your wildest dreams 🔥
↓
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Happy Native American Heritage Day!
The Hopi tribe is one of the US’ oldest cultures, living in the longest continually inhabited villages in the US in the Arizona high desert. They have rarely allowed photography. I’m forever grateful to be closely collaborating w/ Hopi elders
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gm friends! 🌞 So excited, I just minted my first edition on Manifold (background & link below)
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I'm Erika from Costa Rica / American Southwest & this is my art 🐦⬛🕊️
I’m Awelewa Charles from Nigeria. This is my Art.
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gm friends! ❤️🔥 Yesterday I minted my genesis edition for the
@NFT_AOTEAROA
show opening tonight in New Zealand, but it sold out before the show opened! 🥹 Lol my floor is now 69 eth
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Sending love from the Arizona high desert 🤍 A photo from the upcoming Light of the Hopi series
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Please join Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalists Barbara Davidson & Scott Strazzante for an Art Lovers' Lounge conversation coming up soon! Link to the space ↓ to set a reminder ❤️🔥
Wed Aug 23 ✫ 10am PT | 5pm UTC
@ScottStrazzante
@Photospice
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Happy Women’s Day! ❤️🔥 Loved looking through all the art. Hard to choose, I adored so many, and some I chose were unfortunately too expensive for me. In those cases I looked for another piece from the same artist. Here are the works I picked up.
Nddy, Mmanwu Egwu, IJELE…
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@ClaireSilver12
I spent the first year of my life in an orphanage in Costa Rica. I imagined what life might have been like had I stayed in the rainforest as a little girl. Working with AI for the first time was an amazing, healing experience. 🌸 Midjourney outputs, layered & painted in Photoshop
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Hi I'm Erika, a Costa Rican American photographer.
#portfolioday
#art
#photography
#landscape
#portrait
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Happy New Year everyone! 🥳🪅❤️🔥🌟🕊️ Wishing you all a healthy, joyful, peaceful 2024! (Our son Orion chilling on Christmas day)
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Please join photographic artist Alizé Jireh & me for an Art Lovers' Lounge conversation coming up soon! Link to the space ↓ to set a reminder ❤️🔥 Bring your questions :)
Wed Aug 30 ✫ 10am PT | 5pm UTC
👁
@AlizeJireh
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QT with a tree 🤍
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An image from the matrilineal Hopi culture. In their traditional baby naming ceremony, mama & baby are isolated in the dark for 20 days before her first bath. Her godmother massaged prayers into her face with cornmeal, honoring their Corn Mother or creation goddess.
#iwd
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Mourn, a 4k animation inspired by the love of my father. 💙
@LookHighward
@lvbs_ng
💥🇫🇷💥🇫🇷💥ITS LIVE💥🇫🇷💥🇫🇷💥
🇫🇷🎨OPEN CALL NFT PARIS 2024🎨🇫🇷
10 weeks - 10 curators - 100 artists
🫡🫡🫡ITS OUR WEEK🫡🫡🫡
FYI- 💥💥The artworks will be displayed on a vertical screen, submissions should be portraits.💥💥
To participate :
🖼️POST your art in a QT
🫂TAG…
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Wow check this out! Thank you Epik for turning me into a LEGO character 😂 (my LEGO obsessed son loves it!) Friends, reply to his post & he'll make one of you ❤️🔥
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HAPPY WORLD RAINFOREST DAY!! 🌸🌿
I was born in the rainforest of Costa Rica, so couldn't help but share a few moments close to my heart. Tagged some amazing environmental leaders – please show them some love / give them a follow!
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These two pieces are now on display at the
@NFT_AOTEAROA
show that just opened in Auckland, New Zealand! Peace (R), my genesis edition sold out before the show 🤯 but my 1/1 piece for SYNERGY (L), a collab with
@KeziaBarnett
is still available. More details on the work below ~
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@RTFKT
She loves art, dance, community & movement building. It would be an honor to collaborate with you all! 🔥
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Please join Ethereal Gwirl, LeMoon & me for an Art Lovers' Lounge conversation on AI filmmaking ❤️🔥
Wed May 1 ✫ 10am PT | 5pm UTC
👁️
@LeMoonSynth
👁️
@Ethereal_Gwirl
Watch their films ↓
Set a reminder for the space ↓
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Join Alejandro Cartagena of Fellowship & me coming up in a few for a chat on AI art! ❤️🔥
Fri Mar 22 ✫ 2pm PT / 5pm ET
#AIart
@halecar2
@fellowshiptrust
@FellowshipAi
Link to join us! ↓
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Congratulations and a deep bow to our dear
@FDilekUyar
. Her photographic collection "At the Epicenter of COVID-19" is a gift to humanity.
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After her bath, mama & godmother (L,R) bring her to meet Tawa, the sun, for the first time. Lifted to the sun at the edge of the mesa, the baby received her names from all who washed her hair at sunrise. Grateful to witness & photograph one of Hopi's most sacred ceremonies.
#iwd
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Please join Art Lovers' Lounge for a conversation on AI art with artists
@andrea_ciulu
@barrylsutton
& me, in partnership with
@Fellowshiptrust
❤️🔥
Wed Mar 13 ✫ 11am PT / 6pm UTC
Link to set a reminder ↓
#AIart
#AIArtCommunity
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Grateful to be one of the AI artists selected for
@Obscuradao
's “Uncanny Valley”
She's a robotic desert sentinel designed to mitigate desertification... She hopes to be accepted amongst people, have a little fun... (below right)
🤯 It just got a bid from
@ClaireSilver12
! 🙏💛
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QT black & white art 🖤🩶
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So honored to have our Light of the Hopi work at the
@ArtBasel
@TIMEPieces
gallery sponsored by
@MorganStanley
&
@NatGeoPhotos
🤍
Thank you
@JohnKnopfPhotos
@KeithGrossman
@missmayad
@YuliaBoyle
@WhitneyLatorre
~ wonderful meeting you all!
(cell phone 📸 appreciation thread)
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QT your AI art
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Literally crying right now. This is one of the most beautiful and meaningful art projects I have come across & by some miracle we won the auction for our favorite STRONG HAIR piece. Thank you so much
@yatreda
for your gifts to humanity 🔥
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"Women with Feathers" Cirque du Soleil afterparty, San Francisco 2006.
#happysaturday
everyone!
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French New Wave cinema vintage photography enters the blockchain! Excited to have picked up this behind the scenes photograph of Brigitte Bardot by Jean-Claude Deutsch during the 1969 filming of Les Femmes. Congrats and thank you
@Cat555552
&
@FocusBloc
🔥
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Please join Art Lovers' Lounge for a community conversation on photography with co-host
@LeslieASpurlock
!
Wednesday Feb 14 ❤️🔥 10am PT / 6pm UTC
Link to set a reminder ↓
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@JonasHornehoj
I tried to get this shot for 7 years. This much snow is rare in the Arizona desert, and when it arrives, all roads are blocked. I car camped before the storm hit, the sun hit the rock through an opening in the clouds for just a few minutes & I finally got lucky.
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