3. You have created a visual language of your own; what do you draw inspiration from in your daily life?
It all started as an expression while going through terrible depressions at a very young age. From that moment on my art became my emotional outlet. This might sound far-fetched, but I started to really look at life events or things in life that triggered me and brought these alive in my own body of work. Realizing that IF I see something I find pretty, that I had an emotional reaction in real life. Something happened to me. Those are the moments and things I try to apply to my body of work. Could be as simple as a colorway of a piece of fashion, a gradient of a sky or a texture on a tree bark. Those events still happen to me on a daily basis and I figured the things I find beautiful form my taste in a way. My taste makes me unique. My taste became my body of work, and whilst I mainly looked at other artists and what they did when I started out, I only tend to look at myself now.
4. Who are some of your favorite artists in the space currently?
There are tons I look up to, but mostly to the ones that created a genre on their own. Some people that don’t lean on trends or successful things in the past. To name some off the top of my head ( yes there are way more ) I really like the work of Reuben Wu, Joe Pease, Jake Fried and Deekay for instance. To even call Reuben a friend these days is crazy while I’ve probably been one of his biggest Instagram groupies before NFTs were a thing haha.
Why? Because they really found their niche and while people try to replicate it, it’s not doable. It shows hours, days, years , months of conviction to get to that point. So, it really respects their care. They are consistent and constantly evolving and pushing within their own little world. Can totally admire that.
Besides that I’ve always been a James Jean fan myself, though.
5. What is your advice for artists starting out in the NFT space? What are some strategies you’re seeing for releasing 1/1?
I would advise literally everyone to understand the fact that you start from 0. Try to understand what the technology behind NFTs is about. Not just the “hey, I can throw something online and make money” approach. You need to believe in the entire thing we’re building here. Not just show up, sell, leave. Just educate yourself first before making steps. That’s how I did it before minting my genesis to Superrare. I think I took two months to figure out how crypto works. What minting was. All those tiny things.
Besides that, I feel it’s really important to be your own head curator. What do you mint and what makes this piece of work more special compared to the piece you created a day before?
I might be a slow minter myself, but I’d like to only release those very very very special moments as a 1/1. So, holding a 1/1 of mine is something special to the collector as well.
But that’s my POV since I already had 17 years of art pieces laying around, and I had to be very picky. In the end they should just join the space and have fun here. See what this is about and experience it themselves.