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: 34911267789015011503796970138800999124751538794071981937758550482409498869761

Primary Sale Date: October 7, 2021

Primary Sale Price: 1.99 ETH

Purchased by wallet: 0x63F0a3660170A5c9cd4CA7b28B82f0011FFB37C4

Sale Transaction:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xe32ca554f78bd5755b725b96fe7f3f0b74bd0334546221c4f34f4b7c02038acd

Proof of Burn of Original Token:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc7140a591fcdced8878555046da38bffc2f750786287c3b920a3e71e1e3fe8df

Migrated to Promise Land V.2 on January 15, 2022

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.