Drilady is a Solana NFT collection by Parker Ito (@CreamyDreamy), released in 2024. The title references the X account @dril — a pseudonymous absurdist humorist whose voice has become a touchstone of terminally-online culture — and the “fella/lady” naming convention that structures the Milady-to-Mifella-to-Drifella lineage.
The collection continues Ito’s long-standing interest in internet-native imagery and the circulation of digital identity. Grey Area Labs described it as the moment when Ito “launched his own Solana NFTs” after observing the scene. The works were collected on Solana and appear in secondary-market listings alongside other avant-NFT pieces.
Monk Antony positioned Drilady and Drifella as sibling terms within the same compositional family in a September 2025 thread, showing a visual comparison between Ito’s 2010 paintings and the Drilady works. The comparison asserted that Ito’s early digital-painting experiments contained the same traitmaxxing impulse — dense layering, internet-reference saturation, refusal of hierarchical distinction between high and low — that would later formalize as schizocollage.
The collection’s significance for the schizocollage record is primarily genealogical: it marks the point at which an artist with a pre-existing gallery career and institutional history (New Museum, Whitechapel, Rose Easton) entered the Solana avant scene and adopted its visual vocabulary. This entry gives the scene a bridge to the art-world mainstream that its pseudonymous or scene-native producers do not possess.
Unlike Drifella III, Drilady has not yet received a dedicated critical essay at the length of Bauman’s Drifella III piece. The documentation is thinner: a podcast mention, a Grey Area Labs article, and Monk Antony’s thread. Its inclusion in the wiki is justified by its role as a canonical work in the scene’s self-understanding and by its function as a connective tissue between institutional art and internet-native production.
In April 2026 Ito posted a new image to X with the caption “Drilady mentioned,” suggesting the collection remains active in his thinking.
Featured works
- Drilady №133 — diagonal scumble across a MINIMALISM tank-top portrait
- Drilady №402 — Drilady face stamped onto a borrowed equestrian portrait, ASCII rain through the field
- Drilady №598 — chrome-text @dril quotation against orchid and brick-red ground
- Drilady №1133 — MS-Paint annotation layer over a mummy-bandaged doll portrait