Welcome to Layer0.

Layer0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations of the people that make up the Ethereum community.

Crypto is built by code, but it's composed by people, and each individual member of the crypto community has their own story to tell.

CypherPunks understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it, and Layer0 focuses on the people behind the code because Ethereum is people all the way down,

and it always has been.

Today, I'm talking with Justin Aversano, the now famous photographer of the Twin Flames Project, and before that, the Birthday Project.

Justin is a strapping young lad clocking in at 28 years old, or maybe 29, and has really just been all about art his entire life.

He's one of those guys that wakes up in the morning and just thinks about creating art first and foremost, and also when he goes to bed.

He's creating art through and through and through.

While I tend to recap stories in these intros, I'm going to try my best to not do that and just give you guys some themes.

Justin has a very unique story, a relationship with his mother, a twin lost in the womb, and has used photography to tell stories, and then accidentally tell a story about himself, and then very much begin to do that on purpose.

He's used art and photography to connect so many different components about his life in a way that was healing to him as an individual, and then ultimately arrives at the world of NFTs in January of 2021, and we talk about how NFTs represent just a great climax to the story at large, to what the project that he has twin flames, which is now wrapped.

He's now moved on to his new projects, but has really put a fantastic bow on top of two fantastic stories of creating these very deep projects with photography, and has now completely just redefined what it means for him to be an artist.

So, him and I unpack the significance of NFTs as a means for creating meaning.

Is it just some code, and is it just a bunch of crypto people like me saying that NFTs are the most magical thing on the universe, or is it actually what we say it is as NFTs do allow for human culture and human art to be manifested in ways that could not have been done before.

Justin has his own opinions on that, and so I will let him speak now before I go on for too long.

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