Q: Tell us a bit about yourself!
Q: What is your art background?
This is where I feel a little bit like an impostor. I don’t have any formal art background, though drawing has been an interest, on-and-off, for most of my life. Same goes for music. I learned guitar pretty early, then gravitated towards electronic music and synthesizers. If I were to be honest, I haven’t had much time for either for the last decade due to life and work obligations. In the last two years I decided to make room for art in my life. I feel better as a person when I create. Art is important. The pandemic has definitely allowed me to find time and space in my life to focus on music and illustrations. In some ways, it’s helped me create boundaries around art making and for that I am grateful.
I think there is so much to be learned from the sci-fi and fantasy greats from the 70s and 80s. The likes of Frank Frazetta, Jean Giraud, Zdzisław Beksinski, H.R. Giger… As well as some film influence such as Stanley Kubrick, Jodorowsky and Ridley Scott.
Q: How long have you been in cryptoart/ NFTs, how did you discover them and what has been your experience so far?
I joined Steem in Summer 2017 per @kommienezuspadt's suggestion over a game of Magic: The Gathering. I made a couple posts and didn't revisit it until Summer 2020 (which I think had been shortly after the hard fork to Hive). I posted in Alien Art Hive a couple times which Julia had suggested that I tokenize my work. So, really, I haven't been in the game that long at all. Six months, give or take.
NFTs, as far as I'm concerned, are going to be really important for the future of art, especially digital art. For as much of a movement as there already is, I feel like we've only just scraped the surface of it's adoption in general. Within the next couple years, I think we are going to see a lot of prominent artists currently outside the NFT space using it as another legitimate space to sell and share artwork. It's really exciting to me!
Q: Any new art or upcoming projects you would like to tease?
I was recently given an amazing opportunity to create a fun piece for a collaboration between https://www.growyourbase.co/ and NFTShowroom! I'm particularly excited about it as a way to help get the good word out about NFTShowroom. I've tried a few different NFT markets out there, and NFTShowroom has definitely been the platform I've been most excited about. I've been really happy with it so far and it's community is composed of really uplifting and interesting people.
Cosmic Fish: https://nftshowroom.com/bonesandomens/art/bonesandomens_farcaster_cosmic-fish
About this particular illustration and it's story... One thing everyone should know about me: I'm not usually a very... deep person. At least in my art. 😅 Inspiration usually strikes when I see something interesting to me or something out of place. A statue, a skeleton, in this case a pet fish. Fish are weird and they apparently don't stop growing? I saw a photo of a fisherman recently that caught a goldfish in a lake. The thing was 10 lbs and the length of the man's forearm. Apparently people dump goldfish into lakes and the fish thrive. They don't have predators and they get fat and huge. They are invasive. So my question is: why not a cosmic space fish the size of a star freighter?
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Love it! Appreciate the opportunity!
Super excited for the future!
Awesome intro and amazing art. As someone from the early 80s, who studied film and loves sci-fi ( especially those films with awesome synthesizer soundtracks from the 70s and 80s ) your work is very much my style.
Dude, I love you! Seriously come to Austria lets collaborate on some crazy shit and climb mountains there is tons of bouldering to be done! I am officially inviting you! We could shoot a music video a video installation, fantasy just started rolling! Seriously lets collaborate!