On Square Pegs and Round Holes

The holiday season and the end of the year are always good moments to pause and reflect, allowing patterns to surface across longer timelines. Over the past months, I’ve been thinking and writing extensively about contextualizing crypto art, with a particular focus on the role of art-world misfits in its early years, those who operated in the gaps between disciplines, institutions, and economies. Tracing these misalignments has become a way for me to better understand how crypto art found its language, urgency, and resistance to easy classification.