Artist - Salon de l’Empress
Salon de l’Empress
May 15
Lotus Blooms + RGBMTL Curator Debut + Emporium Printify Launch + GBM Update
Lotus Blooms is now live on LunaLauncher and sitting right on the front page. It is a limited 13-edition ordinal paired with a physical print. I created the piece with Grok helping on the initial direction and then hand-painted the final version in Procreate while staying deep in Voluptechne themes. You mint the ordinal and can claim for extra the matching physical print at the same time. These will be the only physical prints that ever exist for this work.
May 8
GBM Auctions NOW LIVE, Physical Prints Incoming
I just deployed my own custom Auction House on Ethereum mainnet through the GBM protocol. GBM is a win-win auction system where bidders earn rewards when they get outbid. The higher the bid, the higher the reward. This turns auctions into an event where everybody wins. The platform fee is only 2% as well, so it's one of the best win/win/win models I've seen.
Apr 15
Decentraland + SR Spring Cleaning
I'm a DCL maxi now and it feels like a homecoming ~! On my birthday (March 23rd) I was interviewed on Beyond the NFT in DCL. It was such a great interview and warm welcome. They even gifted me my name (empresstrash.dcl.eth). I've been in DCL ever since, loving every minute of it.
Jan 24
Reflections on Sincretismo Digital Art Residency: Birthing "The Comet" in Mexico City
It's been a few since I wrote an article. I have been in holiday isolation/recovery mode. Last fall (that's September to December 2025 for the calendar purists), I dove headfirst into the Sincretismo Digital Art Residency hosted by the incredible Wait & Hope Foundation in Mexico City. Getting that acceptance email on October 6th had me ugly-crying in the best way.
Nov 17
Rant on Generative Art Hate
I’ve been an artist my entire life. I have a BFA and a long history of creation, so whether I’m a “real” artist is not up for debate in my mind. Even so, when I began using AI, I lost collectors and longtime supporters. I kept integrating AI into my practice anyway.
Aug 4
Bimbocore Pivot, Liquid Glitch: Renaissance
GM ~ All weekend I was grinding AI training for fun + profit, using my paintings to build models that feel like my paintings. Friday I dropped the Liquid Glitch: Renaissance model.
Jul 27
New Artist Bio
I worked with Grok on a new artist bio all day today. This was a process, but not as painful as it usually is without AI. It also gave me the idea to create an AI lore bot that continually collects what I have done to keep information current.
Written by Empress Trash
Empress's journal and guide to art on and off the blockchain, celebrating creativity in all its wild, unfiltered forms.