Being a small artist in Web3 can be exhausting. It often feels like screaming into a void. We put everything we have into our work. We create from real emotions, real experiences. We spend hours, days, weeks building something meaningful. We work hard, we show up every day, and we still feel invisible. Most of the space moves around hype. Meme coins take over timelines. The same few artists get most of the attention and sales. Collectors focus on what's already popular or trending. Most of the artists putting the real emotional labor into their work & keeping the spirit of the art alive often get overlooked. Sometimes the pressure builds up so much, it feels like we might break. There’s no way to hold it all in, so we let it out the only way we know how, through art. It’s messy, raw. It takes a lot out of us. But it’s all we can do. We keep creating because it’s how we cope. It’s how we survive the weight of it. We just want to know that what we release into the world is reaching someone. That it’s not all pouring out for nothing. That someone is really looking. _______ Hand drawn on iPad