Provenance:
Date of Original Mint: October 1st, 2021
Original Contract: Promise Land V.1 (OpenSea)
Original Contract Address: https://etherscan.io/address/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e
Original Contract Location: https://opensea.io/collection/gregory-eddi-jones
Original Token ID: 34911267789015011503796970138800999124751538794071981937758550503300219797505
Primary Sale Date: October 5, 2021
Purchased by wallet: 0x50b3AEe4AaDaf115c4274bdA7B788572d859A9b2
Sale Transaction:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x4be2543548ff38a3422242de22e1b55df1fc8c22fb69e980d0c0b0c48fa5b212
Proof of Burn of Original Token:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x7a7d0c1a231de57b1b2ed93812d8eaf45c25beb63c859a58b5a0a37e43d7d0ed
Migrated to Promise Land V.2 on January 23, 2023
In Promise Land (2018-2021), American post-photographic artist Gregory Eddi Jones uses T.S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, The Waste Land (1922), as its point of departure. In borrowing literary strategies from the poem and translating them into visual form, Promise Land is positioned as a collection of pictures that picks up where The Waste Land left off over 100 years ago.
To produce this work, Jones appropriated and re-authored common stock and advertising photographs as his source material. From this material, the artist engages in strategies of digital composite and physical ink manipulation to craft a type of picture that is untethered from the traditional burdens of photography's relationships to truth and belief.
Throughout Promise Land, Jones pulls inspiration from a range of influences including folk pictures and fairy-tale illustrations, to surrealism, stories of myth, common advertising tropes, and photo-historical traditions. The resulting project sums up to a visual symphony that harmonizes with a fracturing, "post-truth" contemporary world. Promise Land revisits what many consider to be the greatest poem of the twentieth century while simultaneously reimagining what photography can be.