Paper or PaperHands

 Music Suggestion: Mean Mr. Mustard sleeps in the park, shaves in the dark, trying to save paper,

I've listened to the Abby Road album probably thousands of times, but as an American, I didn't understand how shaving in the dark saved paper until I went to college. Now, with cryptocurrency, cards, and phone scanning to pay for things, my 23-year-old has barely ever held money as paper.

Now I am collecting Paper in the form of art projects in exchange for DAO returns in ADA that will never be paper. What a long strange trip it's been. Let me introduce you to some Paperhands Club Art.

A lot is going on in this image. The rat, dead cat, and puffing cigarette are not in every piece, nor is the individual looking out the window always the same. Some of the pieces are dynamic with activated weather, and others are static. 

This snowing version is one of the holiday mints for the PaperhandsClub Project. One of my favorite pieces as I enjoy the blinking red eyes of the Alien in the window. How many variations are in the Genesis collection, what is the story, what is going on? For that, you'll need to understand a little about Vietnam. 

There is a significant housing disparity between rural Vietnam and the cities in Vietnam. Many families try to find decent housing in the cities where they can hopefully find work, but jobs are difficult to come by, and apartments are pretty expensive to rent. 

There are places where the contrast is starkly evident in the same community.

The large white apartments in the back of the first photo are costly to get into. They are much denser than you may realize. Here is a closer shot. 

Fortunately, crime is very low, and they love tourists. The most dangerous thing in Vietnam these days is food that isn't well monitored for safety. Mcdonald's could not get much traction in this nation because they were too slow to be considered fast food.

In Hanoi, many people live stacked, as seen in this picture. This is more like where the artist was depicting.  

It costs approximately 1500 a month to live there, while most only make about 150 per month.

The Paperhands Club art takes a serene moment at one's window and shares it in a handcrafted way with the Cardano NFT network. 

The art in this project is made by a Vietnamese artist, and it is developed to bring attention to the artist and bring joy to the owner as well. It intends to reward the owners and the artist with passive revenue through a DAO where owners will have a vote and voice equal to their collected pieces.

Of course, there is also great wealth in Vietnam; there are gated, removed communities and villas that would cost 1.5Million USD, but in Vietnamese currency, that is 35Billion VND.

Vietnam is doing a lot to renovate the cities old apartment structures from the '80s and '90s with green technology housing or shops, but it is pushing out the poorer families. 

I find that supporting artists from wherever they are can bring an opportunity to some that many of us may take for granted.  It brings Equality. It brings hope.

Vietnam may be the fastest-growing of the world's economies, with a potential annual GDP growth rate of about 5.1%, which would make the economy the 10th-largest in the world by 2050. An American making 35K a year is considered well off in Vietnam so moving there for retirement is one of the cheapest and safest options.

Here are some of the other Genesis Paperhands available to buy on the secondary market. Look at those fires and the running cockroach. The poor rat is crying in this one, and where we usually see a cat is a dead something else. But the boy at the window has his tunes, and he is happy. Maybe he is listening to something from Vietnamese Pop 2021

On this one, we have a girl. She is wearing her covid mask, and while the card is not an animated one, it is filled with movement and questions. 

What comes after Genesis?  Is it Exodus?

Who are these people? Where are they going?

I am very curious about the rest of the story. 

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