This artwork is an abstract visualisation and a tribute to the great American blues artist Robert Johnson and his song Cross Road Blues, often referred as Crossroads.

"The song has become part of Robert Johnson's mythology as referring to the place where he sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for musical genius. This is based largely on the folklore of the American South that identifies a crossroads as the site where Faustian bargains can be made, although the lyrics do not contain any references to Satan. He performed it solo with his vocal and acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues style" by Wikipedia


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4100px X 3500px I PNG I 6,82MB
Fully scalable and printable

This piece is in no way a mockery of the original art piece “The Comedian” made by the great Italian artist 𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒊𝒐 𝑪𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏, presented at Miami’s Art Basel 2019 but quite the opposite.
It's my tribute to both, the piece and the artist, which I highly admire.

As is the original, at least in my eyes a reminder of the sacred rule "Art is what the artist says it's art"
and "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" or even more reminder of the fact that "Value is in the buyer's wallet size".
So is this piece, my statement, with a touch of humour and irony, of today's "perception" of art, especially art presented as NFT.

At the same time, it's a tribute to UNDRGRND and its founder @nftjoe. Everybody thinks running this kind of project and its token is easy and low effort, but when you take a look behind the scenes and see how much hard work Joe has put in and how many obstacles he had to overcome, you can't keep but wonder how come he hasn't gone bananas.


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AI base with post-processed editing, collage type "Photoshop"
Size: 2370 x 3000 px I PNG I 4,38 MB

Failing is not an option!

NFT Properties: 2400 x 3508px I PNG I 5,8 MB