LA Artist Jules Joins OpenSea Flagship Collection with Birds Collaboration

🎨 When Photography Meets Smart Contracts

By OpenSea
May 7, 2026, 3:11 PM
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Jules, a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist, has been added to OpenSea's Flagship Collection with Birds, a new collaborative work with @mungimungimungi.​

Background:

  • Jules creates onchain art exploring relationships between humans, nature, and technology
  • Entered NFT space in 2021
  • Known for blending analog photography with smart contract functionality

Notable Previous Work:

  • The Flowers Project (2022): 50 1-of-1 photographs with custom CRT circuit-bending
  • Dynamic NFTs that glitch when Ethereum price drops
  • Objective Theory (2023-2025) and Everything All Together (2024)
  • Regular 24 Hours of Art livestream events

Birds Collection:

  • Created in collaboration with @mungimungimungi
  • Unveiled during a Los Angeles livestream
  • Continues Jules' approach of treating camera, code, and blockchain as unified tools
  • Maintains focus on themes of time, beauty, and place

The Flagship Collection inclusion recognizes Jules' consistent work at the intersection of photography and code.​

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