The skeletons and sexual assaults depicted in the NFTs are derived from testimonies not from a 'dirty' imagination, but from actual actions described in lawsuits. The purpose of this project is to sue the Pope and the Vatican by creating an artistic movement. This movement aims to remove the celibacy policy, an inhumane rule that has resulted in the suffering of hundreds of thousands of children. It is a movement built to be continuous and confrontational. I have chosen to team up with the Danish trio Justus, a group that somewhat reflects my own traits, skilled in creating imbalance through art. Together, we will build a platform through an NFT collection to continuously support the movement by leveraging the online world. We are not opposed to religion, I am my self an atheist, but as Kafka said, “to deny the existence of God is to believe in it.” Faith, hope, and values are crucial for many people. However, the Catholic Church does not have a healthy way of protecting faith. The cases are one thing; they mean that the leaders of the Christian church have been revealed to have committed sexual abuse of children. The churches then handling the cases themselves is another crime. They treat it as their own legal/moral task to cover up the actions and internally “punish” the guilty through internal investigations and tribunals, creating a parallel society within the societies they are part of. These cases are not just isolated incidents. It's not just individual cases; it has proven to be systemic. Some victims tend to become abusers themselves later in life. The celibacy requirement of the Roman Catholic Church repeatedly proves to be unfit for the people who strive to live up to these demands, as they are inhuman in the true sense of the word. Human life includes gender and sexuality, love and eroticism, but these are excluded from the church's realm. Interestingly, because the Bible is filled with sex and love. The system comes from the church itself. If one were to demand something superhuman, it could be neighborly love, community, and social justice. We think the solution is for the Catholic Church to allow marriage. It's actually quite simple. The celibacy requirement of the Roman Catholic Church is inhumane in the true sense of the word. "Im not so full of hate towards the church, the human body, and animals?". "On the contrary – I love life and people's right to live freely and with dignity, to choose, for example, their faith. The role of art is to bring issues to a head and to make us see things more clearly. I hope that my collaboration with Justus in expressing NFT art, by exposing this taboos and all that which is not 'pleasant', can help us all to see the positive possibilities of humanity and life more clearly."

Marco Evaristti