Checked out your collection. Nice eye. I'm still wrapping my arms around the digital art world. Splinterlands and these lil Hive Punks are all I've got, and I don't know what will push me towards getting more into them. I kind of prefer hyper-realism in art versus the abstract stuff, but am not sure how broad that is in the cryptoverse yet.
Generally, in your opinion, to what degree is the art-side of NFT space making art with art at the core vs the degree of those sort of just generating digital images and calling them art to ride the wave for profit?
'Art for art' (also known as 1/1 NFTs) was big in the first half of this year, when artists were able to be very visible and it was kind of easy to sell art. Later half of the year the bull run started kicking in and the '10k' projects started pouring in and taking over. I expect the artists doing best during bear markets when people buy for love, and bull markets being more for bigger/easier projects where people want to ride the wave as you called it.
I also just now have learned the differences in 'generative art', some are more 'real' generative than others, hoping to write a post about that after this week, gotta rest from an exam and some study days first :D It's an interesting market to observe, really fits my Dopamine brain, it's sort of 'good' I haven't had time to dive into it deep, I earned 2 ETH from a mint I had made in 2018 lol and just bought a few NFTs from that. Will have time to dive a little deeper in the next few weeks though, so stay tuned :D