So It Goes by Cleon Peterson

About Cleon Peterson

Cleon Peterson is an LA-based artist whose chaotic and violent paintings depict a struggle between power and submission in the fluctuating architecture of contemporary society.⁠

About the Collection

Petersons Second NFT collection, "So It Goes," dives into man's unquenchable thirst for power and destruction. In Revolution 1 (the White Album), John Lennon shared a reflective, disillusioned but honest moment singing: "When you talk about destruction, Don't you know that you can count me out, in."

These NFTs, shocking at first but eerily ordinary as they repeat, elicit truths that we are all implicated in but would like to deny.

In the end, one tries to ascribe meaning to tragedy. Living with the idea that good should always prevail, it is somehow against nature itself if bad happens. But as we experience the modern world, it's undeniable that absurdity is at the root of everything, and the best we can do is understand that nothing makes sense, thus "So It Goes."

Editions #49 and #50 of "In the Sun Moon and Stars", Sot It Goes" and "It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn" have been reserved by the artist.

Eclipse (Black) requires owning at least (1) one NFT by Cleon Peterson to participate. Eclipse (Red) requires owning all three (3) of his editioned NFTs. Check out the marketplace to purchase