February 3rd - 08:55

Justin Aversano

Title: February 3rd - 08:55 Medium: Super-8 film Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Resolution: 2880 x 2160 File Type: H.264 Codec / MP4. Comments: Esteban met with me early in the morning before the flight to Rio, Brazil. Right when Santa Lucía Hill park opened we took a stroll inside. We walked and talked to get to know each other better. He too was a fellow photographer from the NFT space. There was a fountain we found and I noticed there was a San Pedro cactus growing above it. I asked if he knew what that cactus symbolized, and he responded, you mean Huachuma? Yes! We bonded over the sacred medicine and it was the first time I realized it was common outside of California and Peru. Chile too has rituals and practices for this sacred plant medicine. In that moment I decided to create Estabans portrait, with the cactus as a cameo, and playing around with framing with the steel circles that were the boundaries in the circular garden. He did not know what to do at first so I directed him to walk up to me and reach his hand out to grab the camera. It was the first time doing something like this in the project and had a really neat effect. Always try something new, and what goes around comes around, especially when your in a circular park!

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Provenance Collected 2026-02-04, won at auction on Transient Labs.
Minted 2026-02-03 on Transient Labs, on Ethereum by 0x799e1fe9…7883.
Entered the vault 2026-05-02.

Kind One of one · Film · 2026

Collection Moments of the Unknown by Justin Aversano

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The story

2026-02-03
Made & minted on Transient Labs by Justin Aversano
2026-02-03
The auction: 14 bids from 12 collectors
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- 0x3297a2…e552 placed the winning bid · 2026-02-04
2026-02-03
Passed to Justin Aversano
2026-02-03
Passed to 0x6f66b9…9f8d
2026-02-04
Won at auction on Transient Labs by Aaron (along7.eth)
2026-05-02
Moved into the vault for safekeeping
2026-07-09
Archived in this gallery — checksum 1bdcaf06c054