@sofiagarcia_io put words to a feeling I’ve had as a collector/curator 👇🏾 Similar to the contemporary art world, Web3 art is tracing a path from simple to complex. Elemental marks to ever-richer constructs. Marks → algorithms → systems/worlds→ ??? 👉🏾Early phase: elemental gestures (Autoglyphs). Code as line. 👉🏾Next: self-contained algorithms (long-form gen art). Code as studio. 👉🏾Now: living systems. Code as world. Recent works that embody this shift: 🤌🏾@TaborRobak, Tabcorp Labs 🤌🏾@hahajohnx, Dungeoneer 🤌🏾@mitchellfchan, Overture Rule-sets that perform. As a collector, ownership is co-authoring a runtime. Where interaction is interpretation and state changes are part of the provenance. Whenever I trace a trend, I hunt for the seed. The first thing that carried the DNA of everything that followed. While building this thesis, one collection kept coming to mind. It landed years early, still feels futuristic today, and stands as the blockchain native, prototype for all these system/world hybrids... Any guesses???