Shorsh Skies Collection: a surreal vision from heaven
Fifty-plus pieces born from blending different skies into one frame, and the story of the NFT exhibit that lived on a platform that no longer exists.
In fact, the Shorsh Skies Collection started on a beach in 2016, not in a studio. I was watching the sunset and thought about blending different moments of sky into a single image. Almost like an overexposed photograph, pushed further into something stranger. Eventually, that idea turned into years of experimenting with photograph manipulation, working from skies I’d photographed in different places. The Shorsh Skies Collection is over 50 pieces now, and I’m still adding to it.
How the Shorsh Skies pieces come together
Each piece blends sky photos from different locations and times into the same frame. That’s done with multi-exposure techniques, then refined further in post-production. Still, the clouds end up in patterns that couldn’t exist in a real sky. Colors shift somewhere between memory and invention. That’s really what the whole series is chasing. A feeling closer to a half-remembered place than an actual photograph of one.
An NFT exhibition that no longer exists online
Back in 2021, during the NFT boom of the pandemic, I minted a set of Shorsh Skies pieces on MakersPlace. MakersPlace was an online gallery built specifically for NFT art. Meanwhile, MakersPlace featured the collection in their “A Year of Looking” exhibit. I also sold pieces from the wider Shorsh Skies work on SuperRare and TOKEN Editions, where sales did happen. None of the 29 pieces minted specifically on MakersPlace ever sold, though. That’s just how it went for that particular platform. MakersPlace itself doesn’t exist anymore. The platform shut down, the site is gone, and there’s no way to browse that exhibit today. So that part of the collection’s history only lives here now, in this record of it having happened.
Where Shorsh Skies stands now
Then the crypto winter of 2022 changed how people talked about NFTs. Market saturation, speculation, and real fraud cases made a lot of that early enthusiasm look naive in hindsight. I still think proof of ownership is a real idea, even if most of the hype wasn’t. Better regulation could still make tokenized ownership something worth trusting again, maybe. You can see the rest of what’s still up, prints and the NFT pieces, in the shop.
