Portraits from the Blue Desert Wednesday (7/27) at 3:30pm PDT on @makersplace Irantia One of the greatest Titans created, symbol of peace and capable of summoning the winds and water. Invocation rituals, deserts, tribal fights and a lot of magic is what we can find in this new series. A work set in the Desert of the Blue Men, where the Yellow Priestesses of each region invoke mythical titans. The Blue Desert is the future home of the Iberians, a dried-up ancient sea where the people worship black cats and a three-eyed skull. This surrealist fantasy land is the brainchild of Luis Toledo, aka Laprisamata, a graphic artist based in Madrid, Spain who has developed his unique Blue Desert mythology through artwork, hand-drawn maps, short stories, histories, and more. This epic project will culminate in a full-scale exhibition, a VR Blue Desert experience, graphic novel, and animated short films. Before that, though, for his first MakersPlace drop, Laprisamata brings an offering of three sacred portraits, part of The Blue Desert Rituals Series. From a young age, Luis Toledo studied reality to pull hidden meanings from everyday images, dissecting the mystery of beauty. As a meticulous artistic magpie, Toledo gathered illustrations, textures, and fragments from which he would build his images. Tangled, powerful, and ethereal, each work accumulates meanings on microscopic levels.