⌖Sashelka🖤̊

Gm Arena🖤 ⁉️ IT’S LIVE ⁉️ ❓ What’s in Your Head? ❓ I don’t explain my thoughts. I let you see them. For NFT lovers: https://www.transient.xyz/nfts/ethereum/0xf414a8f669ce0e78db003f9455b7db00edd580ff About collection: https://x.com/sashelka/status/2013572832555360515?s=20

📚Flesh and Fiction📚 I started reading before I could properly speak. My mum read fairy tales to me at night, but one story was never enough. I wanted to stay in those worlds long after bedtime. I knew the books almost by heart, so whenever she tried to skip a few pages, I would stop her and tell her exactly what she had missed. That hunger for stories never really left. I read until morning, over breakfast, on the Underground on my way to university and later to work. I read when I should have been sleeping, when I was already running late, whenever I could steal a few more pages. When I got my first smartphone, one of the first things I did was fill it with books. I don’t read as much now, and I miss that sometimes. But the love never left. Flesh and Fiction is my tribute to the books that raised me, shaped me, scared me, comforted me, and became part of who I am. Maybe we don’t only read books. Maybe they read us too. Oil on canvas, 61 × 30.5 cm, 2026 For NFT collectors: https://www.transient.xyz/nfts/ethereum/0x1203527d8e333279b5c729d41fda7a0356b30f3e/1

I finally finished the painting I’d been arguing with for about two years. It’s a tribute to the books that made me who I am. I’ll tell that part of the story when I show the whole painting properly, in colour. For now, I want to tell you how long it took me to finish it. When the idea first came to me, I made the sketch and the first underpainting. I was so pleased with it that evening. The next morning, I looked at it again and immediately felt that something wasn’t right, although I couldn’t explain what. I continued working on it, but slowly and without much enthusiasm. Eventually, I put it aside for a few months. When I returned to it, I changed some shapes and details. Individual parts began to work, but the painting as a whole still didn’t. The problem was never the technique. Visually, it was close to what I had imagined, but emotionally, I couldn’t feel it. And it’s difficult to fix something when you can’t explain what’s wrong with it. I kept it in the most visible place so I could study it. Then I moved it into the furthest corner because I was tired of looking at it. At some point, I accepted that I might never finish it. Recently, I picked it up again, changed a few more details and suddenly realised there was nothing else I wanted to change. It was ready. I really wasn’t expecting that. Has anything like this ever happened to you? Something that wasn’t technically difficult, but still took years to finally get right?

Mum, look, I made it to Times Square. Well… my art did. Close enough. Seeing “Pending” on a Times Square screen and inside a gallery in New York still feels slightly unreal 🙃 #NFTNYC2026

Well… this happened 🥹🖤 “Pending” is going to New York. Selected for the 2026 Community Artist Showcase at @NFT_NYC, showing on the Times Square billboards and in the gallery 🖤 September 1, 8:30pm. Times Square. #NFTNYC2026 Apparently, not everything stays pending forever 🙃 🐟 Pending 🐟 Digital drawing • 1/1 For NFT Collectors: Available on @ThecentaurusM ↓ https://www.thecentaurus.io/nft/cmp0ft39o05d0mp193dnvhuxq

Perfect place to sit and overthink absolutely everything 🙃

Gm🖤 🎈 Happy Birthday to me 🎈 🎉🥳 Three years ago, I made myself one promise: Every birthday, no matter what, I would create at least one oil painting. Not for a collector. Not for an exhibition. For myself. ⏳Each painting quietly records where I am at that moment in my life. This year, I decided to give that tradition a permanent home by creating the Milestones collection. Built to Last is the first piece in the collection. Thirteen editions make this year’s milestone available to collectors. Here’s to keeping promises made to yourself. 🍷 13 editions · 0.01Ξ 🔗 https://www.transient.xyz/mint/built-to-last