BLINDING SUNSET Oil on board - March, 2025 Dimensions: 40 × 40 cm The fruit of good labour. Painted with care. Sold for the only real money. Available here 👉

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BLINDING SUNSET - Isolabellart

Oil on board

WHERE THE DAY ENDS Oil on cradle wood panel - February, 2026 Dimensions: 30,5 × 23 cm The fruit of good labour. Painted with care. Sold for the only real money. Available here 👉

Isolabellart

WHERE THE DAY ENDS - Isolabellart

Oil on cradle wood panel - February, 2026

True wealth does not lie in what you manage to keep for yourself. But in what you manage to give away. And, sometimes, the most precious things in life cannot be measured in terms of money. I stack sats. I sell paintings for Bitcoin. I believe in hard money. And yet. The things that stay with me the longest are never the ones I can measure. A sincere comment under a painting. An unexpected compliment from a stranger. Someone who stopped, really stopped, to look. That's not nothing. That's everything.

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I don't paint Bitcoin art. My paintings are landscapes. Light. Silence. But I sell them for Bitcoin, because it's the only money I trust. Someone noticed. And made an exception for me. @Bitcoin Art Magazine has dedicated a page to my work. In a moment when sales are quiet, this kind of recognition means more than I can say. Thank you to everyone there for seeing something worth including. 👉 bitcoinartmagazine.com/artist/isolabellart/ #art #artstr #isolabellart #bitcoin

Even if you appreciate my art and have been following me for a long time, there is something about me that you may not know. After making my first paintings in 1989, I stopped making art in 1992 for no particular reason. It was only the love for my wife that prompted me, exactly 30 years later, in May 2022, to pick up my brushes again. I have not stopped since then. The most surprising thing is that by a simple stroke of luck my first painting was sold almost a year later, in March 2023. Right around that time, @Will created the #zaps on Nostr. This event ignited in me the idea of selling my paintings in Bitcoin. The rest of the story is encapsulated here, among my notes and other stuff.

Isolabellart

Isolabellart

Original oil paintings

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Some paintings work. Some don't. These two, without false modesty, work. And they work together too. Today I gave them their protective varnish. They're ready to go, whenever they need to. So far they've only spoken to me. That's fine. Maybe one day they'll speak to someone else too. ECSTASY & THE BREACH Both available at 👉

Isolabellart

Isolabellart

Original oil paintings

They are waiting for you. #art #artstr #isolabellart #bitcoin

Today I worked on DESPITE, the painting I currently have on my easel. The colors are there. The shapes are there. But the painting isn't talking to me. So I put down the brush and stood there in silence, looking at it. Nothing. I don't feel anything today. I put everything away. I'll come back another time. Work in progress — or maybe just work.

Yesterday, a Nostr user posted a screenshot on X showing all the zap notifications they’d received on WoS, without mentioning Nostr, sparking a lot of curiosity about how they’d managed to receive those sats. Normies aren’t interested in Nostr, but in how to earn sats easily.

We are convinced that we are living in an age where, thanks to AI, it is no longer clear what is true and what is false – the difference being that now we know this, whereas before it was the same and we believed everything. The real risk of the AI age is not falsehood, but epistemic apathy: ‘I don’t know what is true, so I might as well not bother finding out.’

Siamo convinti di vivere nell'era in cui con l'AI non si capisce più cos'è vero e cos'è falso, con la differenza che adesso lo sappiamo, prima era uguale e credevamo a tutto. Il vero rischio dell'era AI non è la menzogna, ma l'apatia epistemica: "non so cosa è vero, quindi tanto vale non saperlo."