# a_place_to_be_01

> As of Nov 5, 2026, a_place_to_be_01 has no recorded sale.

- Page: https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/makersplace-2a46/72852
- Collection: [MakersPlace](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/makersplace-2a46.md)
- Token ID: [72852](https://etherscan.io/nft/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756/72852)
- Contract: [0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756](https://etherscan.io/address/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756) (ERC-721)
- Owner: [quincredible.eth](https://www.gondi.xyz/0x98ccf605c43a0bf9d6795c3cf3b5fed836330511)
- Image: https://i2c.seadn.io/ethereum/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756/77dc1b0ba3bdcd6259ea49a1a93f66/ad77dc1b0ba3bdcd6259ea49a1a93f66.png?w=1000

## Description

The colors and gradients in this piece use a palette I've called "fantasy." It makes me think of breaking out of confining spaces, makes me think of the dream of simply "being" as a reasonable explanation for why we're here. The brightness of these colors is offset by the lack of neon-contrast, meaning the need here is for the ASDF to provide structure in patterns as well.

One of the things I've decided that I absolutely need is a place to be. Obviously I don't just mean a physical space: you can be in a cubicle or at a register or even in your own living room and you are there existing not to be but to do some kind of work, or function as a certain kind of presence. That is - even though a cubicle is a place to be - when I'm there I am not myself but I am working in the role that I'm paid to do, doing some *thing*. All corporate hand-waving insisting they are trying to treat us as human beings seems to me to mostly just be an elaborate way of making us more productive at that thing by *feeling* like we are being treated as something other than a living breathing tool. 

I always liked the way that Virginia Woolf explained the necessity of a place to be for creative work: "...webs are not spun in mid-air by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in." I need some space where I am meant simply to exist - to be - and if work comes it comes. I think it's telling that we have so many men and women creating at home their little "man caves" or "woman caves" (as I've heard lately) who simply don't include their home mentally as a place to be. I think a part of that is the influence of social pressure (not to say social media) to have your home be a presentation to the world and a hosting space rather a place meant for you to exist.

Data from GONDI (https://www.gondi.xyz), Nov 5, 2026.