Upstairs Dandelion: The Justice Rebellious Spirit and Indomitable Attitude in Crypto’s World
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JZL Garden’s first NFT series, “Dandelion,” was inspired by Aristotle. It contains 1066 Avatars with different attributes. JZL Garden aims to use the first NFT and the continuous series of NFTs to depict his whole life.
Aristotle was a philosopher with rebellious spirit. He once said, “I love my teacher; I love the truth even more.” This quest for truth and the challenge to tradition paved the way for the future science. In the world of Crypto, we also need such rebellious spirit.
His unrelenting spirit for the pursuit of truth made him the most outstanding student in Plato’s Academy. We want to incorporate this justice-rebellious spirit, Raphael’s original intention of creating the School of Athens, and Leonardo da Vinci’s insights into Renaissance art into Gardener’s character through the Web3 model.
Therefore, JZL Garden designed a series of unique avatars with the young Aristotle and Raphael as the core images in Leonardo da Vinci’s painting style to convey the unruly and truth-seeking attitude represented by the young Aristotle and Raphael to the public in the most Web3 form. We also expect that JZL Gardener will uphold the tenacious attitude of pursuing the truth and bring unique ideological values to the world.
omics, theology, political science, rhetoric, natural science, education, poetry, customs, and law. Aristotle’s writings constructed the first extensive system of Western philosophy. He authored at least 170 works, of which 47 have survived, including mainly the Treatise of Instruments, Metaphysics, Physics, Ethics, Politics, Poetics, and others.
Aristotle concentrated ancient knowledge in one place, and in the centuries after his death, no one had a systematic examination and comprehensive mastery of knowledge as he did. His writings are the encyclopedia of antiquity, and his ideas once ruled Europe. Marx once called Aristotle the most erudite of the ancient Greek philosophers, and Engels called him “the Hegel of antiquity. “
Rebellion
Although he was a student of Plato, Aristotle boldly abandoned the idealist view held by his teacher. Plato believed that ideas were prototypes of physical objects and did not depend on them for their existence. On the other hand, Aristotle believed that the realm of the real is made up of things that are in harmony with their form and substance. “Material” is the material of which items are composed, while “form” is the individual characteristic of each thing. While Plato asserted that the senses could not be the source of actual knowledge, Aristotle believed that knowledge originates from substances. Aristotle, like Plato, believed that the rational scheme and purpose are the guiding principles of all natural processes. But Aristotle’s view of causality was richer than Plato’s, for he accepted some of the ancient Greek period views on the subject. This theory exhibits the idea of a spontaneous debate.
Style and elements
Background: grand allusion
The ultimate value of life lies in the ability to awaken and think, not in mere survival.
Continuing Socrates’ idea that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” Aristotle also emphasizes the importance of reason and reflection. He believes that the ultimate value of life lies in the ability to examine oneself. This idea prompted Aristotle to explore various disciplines, eventually becoming an encyclopedic scientist. His research, like the image in Raphael’s famous painting “The School of Athens,” is firmly planted on the ground: his writings are free of flying fantasies, fiction, and imaginary republics.
Garden incorporates this search for truth and pragmatism into the design of the NFT collection. Using as a background name topics discussed by medieval philosophers, such as Do or Die, alluding to Aristotle’s life of searching for truth and symbolizing the age-old topics of philosophy about humanity: death and birth, heaven and destruction, truth and eternal existence.
Hair color: Classical Rebellion
“I love my teacher; I love the truth more.”
Garden incorporates this search for truth and pragmatism into the design of the NFT collection. Adopting the issues that has been discussed by medieval philosophers, such as Do or Die, as the background design, alluding to Aristotle’s life of searching for truth and symbolizing the age-old topics of philosophy about humanity: death and birth, heaven and destruction, truth and eternal existence.
Aristotle was sent to Plato’s Academy at seventeen, but unlike most students, Aristotle stayed there for over twenty years and became a teacher there. But Aristotle did not like his spiritual godfather, Socrates, who expounded without doing anything and just conversed endlessly with others; nor did he write like his teacher, Plato, who just imitated the endless Socratic dialogues. He wrote many works dealing with various subjects and themes, from biology to ethics, from metaphysics to literary criticism. Despite not agreeing with his teacher Plato’s conceptualism, Aristotle never stopped his pursuit of truth; he worked hard to collect all kinds of books and materials, studied them diligently, and even built a library for himself.
In the world of Web3, human beings should still maintain the courage and belief to persist in the exploration and truth, so Garden has incorporated this “rebellion and stubbornness for truth” into the hair color of the characters in the NFT collection. As a symbol of human personality in modern society, hair color plays an essential role in Cyber culture. Garden incorporates Colors that can represent Aristotle’s attitudes into the hair color design to show Aristotle’s rebellious spirit and add a futuristic feel to the collection.
Clothes: Aesthetic of Nature
The Perfection of the Flesh as a Divine Feature
Since the birth of clothing, human clothing has developed towards a metaphor for romance and the divine, specifically in the search for balance between revealing and covering. During the ancient Greek period, the perfect expression of the sensuality of dress, the commonly worn chiton and himation were characterized by relatively loose, natural draping, most commonly by sewing two rectangular pieces of fabric together along either edge, top to bottom, to form a cylinder with the top edge and hem unstitched. The leading edges are then sewn, pinned, or buttoned at two or more points to create shoulder seams with openings reserved for the head and arms. The nakedness of some body parts expresses the inner spirit of dressing sexy and physically. The ancient Greeks respected the natural, spontaneous, romantic, and harmonious body aesthetics; such a concept made the ancient Greeks neither clothing escape from excessive “restraint” and “exposure.”
The human-machine hybrid of the Cyber era retains the familiarity of the human body and is filled with a strange sense of mechanization, the combination of which constitutes a unique body aesthetic. But one that is not without patriarchal aesthetic bias, such as when Alita still wears a tight plastic suit in Alita: Battle Angel and her front and back are outlined in a slender and orderly manner, a monstrous Cyber dressing aesthetic is formed. Noting this, Garden supports the “natural aesthetic” in the Cyber world, using chiton and himation clothing decorations in this collection to emphasize a comfortable, spontaneous aesthetic.
Halo: Aesthetics of the Holy Light
Because everything carries color, there is a sense that paint produces beauty. Paintings become more attractive when the light illuminates.
“Light “ is also essential in medieval aesthetics and brings many “light chasers.” For example, the medieval scientist, Robert Grosseteste, was interested in discovering the nature of light. His work “On Light” combines aspects of the Neoplatonic theory and Aristotelian cosmology. In addition, the effects of light became significant to medieval artisans, especially in the creation of architectural art. People often associated light with color theory, thus giving thinkers a new understanding of the definition of aesthetics.
Therefore, Garden has incorporated the element of “light” in this NFT collection, with 20% of the figures surrounded by holy light in four different styles: Dawn, Flames, Fragmented, and Immaculacy, which are highly valuable and rare. In response to Aristotle’s significant contribution to the study of aesthetics in the Middle Ages and later generations, Garden continues this in web 3.0, emphasizing the appreciation of nature and beauty.
He was born, he thought, and he died.
As a pure philosopher, Aristotle is the “master of the knowers,” according to Maimonides. His voice still echoes in writings from Tocqueville to Hannah Arendt and in the Cyber generation’s search for the future and its courage -”All ages will come to an end, only the truth remains.”
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