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: 34911267789015011503796970138800999124751538794071981937758550553877754675201
Primary Sale Date: October 4, 2021
Primary Sale Price: .33 ETH
Purchased by wallet: 0xaFE6520e39B77158e15b3377c1528B590a887800
Sale Transaction:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x298831af4507bc15b73db2c975d5e0157ad5f774d9ded0ea41d5a172cc74af75
Proof of Burn of Original Token:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x22cc0e4f39ce8d4eb26a167eddf5cc001d0ccaca86eca35cb0f184c56e939c29
Migrated to Promise Land V.2 on February 5, 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.