Snapchat // Spectacles // BlackSoul Gallery - by Leighton McDonald

https://www.spectacles.com/creators/

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I had the pleasure of working with Snapchat on the creation of an exclusive Lens on their new Spectacles Augmented Reality Glasses!

I created the BlackSoul Gallery experience to showcase up-and-coming Black Artists in a new light. As a child, I wasn’t able to go see art from younger Black artists in the big museums near me in South Carolina, USA. Many young black artists don’t have the resources or connections to show in big galleries where their art can be seen by large groups of people, while simultaneously establishing value and presence in the art collection scene. I wanted to break that wall down and bring it out into the open in the new Augmented Reality Metaverse. In addition to adding to the future, 2/4 of these works are NFT’s (Non-Fungible Tokens) that are minted on the Etereum blockchain, adding more ownership, control, and value to the future of artists.

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Artists featured:

SIRSU - https://iamsirsu.com/cryptomedia

Juliet Nneka - https://artistsourced.com/collections/nkjuls

Bria Thomas - https://zora.co/briamakesit

Dillion ATM - https://linktr.ee/dillonatm