Spirits, Ghosts and Mortals is the latest series of unique artworks and editions from Hersoid. The inpsiration for the collection was an old archive found on the MIT website, that the artist stumbled upon while researching another project. He found a photograph of a Chinese dignitary, taken in the late 19th century by renowned photographer and explorer John Thompson.
In this series, Hersoid has recontextualised the characters from John Thompson’s remarkable travels, with a view to commenting on the enormous changes that the country has gone through in recent decades, and how the spirits of these historical figures hang over a new population living in totally different conditions.
Most artworks have been minted as unique 1/1 NFTs on the ethereum blockchain via Foundation and one is also available as a limited edition release on Solana via Exchange.art