Spring/Summer is a collection of 67 photos inspired by the aesthetics of online catalog photography which explores the relationship between desire and digital consumption. The images feature assemblages that combine hardware store goods, homemade ceramics, organic elements and various mass-produced detritus, shot on brightly colored solid backgrounds. The playful images appropriate the bright commercial non-aesthetic associated with advertising and material commodity culture, reminiscent of stock photography and industrial supply catalogs; two references that are recognizable yet ambiguous.

This work has previously been published in an artist book modeled after the ULINE Catalog, exhibited as a gallery installation, and presented in public spaces typically used for advertising. The collection in this context offers an important opportunity for the images to exist in their original digital state, which aligns most closely with the intended concept for the series. Instead of photography being the purveyor of commodities, or precursor to physical exchange, here the image becomes the commodity itself meant to be collected, traded and speculated on.

Inspired by both 1/1 photography collections and PFPs, each digital photograph will be randomly minted, have attached traits, and provide holders with future benefits.

Holders will be eligible for:

• One copy of the artist book Spring/Summer 2012 (must provide mailing address).
• Free mint of Jimmy's future secretly-in-the-works larger generative PFP photography project.
• Advance news and access to future collections.