Tigo Sanchez — practice
This is not
a portfolio.
A portfolio is a folder you keep adding to. This is an identity that holds: one wallet, one address, one place where the work, the agreements and the people who made them stay attached to each other.
You do not need any of it to work with me. It is here because it changes what is possible once you do.
The bubble was the noise.
The identity was the point.
I went into this before 2020, in the months before the NFT bubble. The market was busy pricing pictures. What was actually new was underneath it: an identity that does not expire, that no platform owns, and that carries its history with it.
Everything since has followed from that. Not a coin — a chain and a contract mature enough to hold an agreement between two people who have never met.
Chosen and minted.
Not dumped by the ton.
If the identity is permanent, what you attach to it should be worth attaching. That is why this site shows a few things instead of everything, and why the catalogue is edited rather than filled.
The same rule applies to the work itself: fewer pieces, decided on purpose, each one able to stand next to the name for a long time.
Paid, commissioned and reserved on-chain.
On this site a project can be commissioned, a window reserved and the work paid for in crypto, alongside the ordinary way. An international collaboration can be agreed, traced and settled without three intermediaries and a month of paperwork.
Same practice, same standard. What changes is the friction, and who has to trust whom.
One person, or their whole business.
The system does not only fit a studio. It fits a single professional — an artist, an artisan, a bartender, anyone with a craft and a name — and it fits the company they build later. Consumer first, business after, in that order.
Nobody has to drown in token economics to start. A wallet, an ETH identity and a website, and you are in. From there the strategies are many, and you go as deep as you want — or not at all.