NFTs Showcase: Building A New World, Anna’s Super-dimensional Meta Universe “The Grand Paris of Niger”
The Revival NFT Marketplace now lists Anna’s NFTs series “The Grand Paris of Niger,” the first Meta Universal architect from Russia. In this auction, the auctioneer with the highest bid will get a customized NFT avatar created by Anna as an additional surprise.
Although Anna has won more than 100 awards in her traditional architectural design, the dedication to space drove Anna to transform her style from conventional to Meta-Universe design and made her the first batch of architects in this area.
“In humanity’s evolutionary progress, people have moved from crawling to walking upright and began to have their behavior height, which dedicates the variation from two-dimensional ground to three-dimensional space. At that time, human beings entered a new era and started their exploration of unknown space. When human beings integrate the cultural values, humanistic thoughts, technological landscapes, economic models, and “space” cognition, in this case, the “space” endowed with a unique concept will evolve into the “Origin Space For All,” which is the “Meta Universe.”
In Anna’s view, everything in the world happens in the brain, imagination is boundless, and human beings are an actual Meta Universe. In the meantime, human society will also likely live in the Meta Universe. The Meta Universe design is an exploration of the future and a continuation of the past.
The “The Grand Paris of Niger” NFTs series demonstrates various emotional expressions, such as distorting, complicating, overlapping, wild, saturated, black and white, which is different from the seriousness and calmness of physical architecture. In Anna’s virtual Meta Universe design, she endowed “Digital Renaissance” boundless imagination with great storylines and humanistic care. Her work is a conception of the future world and an exploration of the feasibility of an ideal space.
“The Grand Paris of Niger”
The Grand Paris of Niger takes on humanity’s eternal struggle — the contradiction between the Rich and the Poor. With the accelerating climate change and pandemics, the poor become even poorer, and the rich get richer. The set of artworks calls for global justice by contrasting two countries: Niger in Africa and France in Europe.
Niger is the ‘youngest’ country globally, which means life expectancy is the shortest. Even the drinking water is not accessible for most of the people living there. In the past century, Niger was colonized by France, one of the most developed countries in the world. Uranium mining and climate change caused by the ‘First World’ severely affect the local population. Can a new oasis landscape heal harm?
“Last Harbour Camp”
To the south of the Sahara Desert, an estimated 500 million people live on the dying land undergoing desertification. At the same time, fertility rates there are the highest globally; newborns are given such a cruel fate. The most significant human migration in history is triggered: annually, over a hundred thousand migrants cross the scorching dusty Sahara Desert and swim across the Mediterranean Sea. Unfortunately, most of them end up in the slave trade market, where people are traded as goods at US$800.
The Grand Paris promises a new hope for Niger. It’s an oasis that is more than a shelter, a garden that is more than a farmland, a well that is more than just a water replenishment point; on this desperate and exhausting route, the colorful camps are for migrants to reconsider their dangerous journey The last port. Rather than eager to reach unreachable Europe, it is better to let the local glory and glory reappear.
Instead of longing to get to unreachable Europe, the local splendor is revived.
· Auction Method: English
· Auction Duration: 7 Days
· Minimum Bid: 500 IOST
“Wind Dam: Solar Harvest”
Even after the end of French colonialism, the French nuclear giant continued its mining activities in Niger. It is reported that hundreds of thousands have been exposed to radioactivity and died prematurely of undeclared diseases. The alarming levels of radioactivity are found in water, soil, and air samples. The contaminated aquifers have also destroyed the traditional way of life of communities.
The new wealth of the Grand Paris is solar power generation, a sustainable replacement for the harmful uranium industry. The multi-purpose Wind Dam acts as a dust barrier for the solar harvesting fields and, simultaneously, a solar chimney and cooling tower for the brick tunnel kiln. New bricks are baked daily and are used to extend the factory, thus constantly recreating itself. This way, ‘The Grand Paris of Niger’ manifests victory of life over death, hope over despair, and forgiveness over hate.
· Auction Method: English
· Auction Duration: 7 Days
· Minimum Bid: 500 IOST
“Sand Dam: Water Guardian”
The Grand Paris of Niger is imagined not merely as a landscape for restorative agriculture but as a metaphor of hope, empowerment, and independence.
The new hydrological landscape follows a set of climatic principles of wind and sun rather than a strict human-made master plan. Sand Dam protects the precious water from the scorching sun. Colorful triangular vegetation patterns, including shade-providing acacia trees and date gardens, gradually embrace the desert, patch by patch echoing Nigerien weaving patterns.
The cultivated oasis adapts the previously arid homeland into a planted shelterbelt grid of sustainability. It dissolves decades of dependency on foreign aid and international politics, metaphorically forgiving its colonial past.
· Auction Method: English
· Auction Duration: 7 Days
· Minimum Bid: 500 IOST
“Nomadic Market”
Local landmarks arise, built in the desert using vernacular architecture techniques created by the hands of local people. Critical infrastructures of the French capital are metaphorically employed for various water management techniques and resilient landscaping strategies. Eiffel Tower in Paris was a landmark of the industrial age that became the most recognized symbol of romance. Rope towers in Niger would stand for humanity and love for the homeland. Raised by hot air, remarkably light tower structures float higher to bring up national pride.
· Auction Method: English
· Auction Duration: 7 Days
· Minimum Bid: 500 IOST
Additional Surprise
Exclusive Meta Universe Dream Avatar to Revival Users, Designed by Anna
The Meta Universe dream avatar is a part of Anna’s “Super-dimensional Meta Universe” design project. According to people’s characteristics and the ten keywords, a novel avatar will be created by Anna to show your specialty.
In the auction of “The Grand Paris of Niger” NFTs series, the auctioneer with the highest bid will get a dream avatar NFT created by Anna.
About Revival NFT Marketplace
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Empowered by blockchain technology, Revival enables the tokenization of the artwork on the chain to generate NFT artworks that are unique and verifiable with their smart contract addresses.
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