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I was very artistically encouraged by my parents since I was a child. I learned to read and write at home, and my earliest memories are of me drawing with my mom, playing guitar with my dad, and gaming with my friends. During classes, as a child and teenager, I would draw on desks, the back of tests, and on the walls at home and in the street. I took dance, theater, and painting classes, and I had bands throughout my life until I was 22.
My parents passed away when I was still a teenager, and I went to live with my uncles, who didn’t see me as an artist. This made me stray from that path and seek something more socially acceptable. I tried to go to college for business administration and law, but it didn’t work out. At 25, I dropped everything and went to art school, graduating in 2019. Since then, I've been working to live off my art. With the pandemic, I migrated to digital art, and here I am. I didn’t choose art; it chose me. 😁 😁 1 reply
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Yes, there were several people who helped me a lot, but especially my professors and mentors during my undergraduate studies, Helga Correa (IG @correa_helga) and Suzana Gruber (IG @suzana_gruber). They taught me to think about art and, above all, respected my pace, making me believe in my potential as an artist. They were fundamental to my artistic maturity and development, especially Helga, taking my works to exhibitions when I didn’t believe I could be accepted and showing me that it was possible to live off art when I was feeling discouraged. I owe a lot to them.
And in the web3 space, I need to highlight @kflemmer. He managed to identify this conceptual side of mine and also believed in my work. Without even trying, just by being who he is, he changed my relationship with digital art and the community and has always been very attentive and helpful. He is undoubtedly a reference for me and a good friend. 😅 2 replies
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Sure, I know amazing people here. I can mention several names of people whose work I really like and enjoy talking to, the /veg channel is my home, @midnightmarauder.eth and @milibooo are doing a great job to elevate art and people, @yatima, is a great procedural artist and friend here and helped me a lot , @trillobyte is amazing artist and a big inspiration, @tatertots is a great street artist and super friendly, @goregif, @sashelka, @karmillashelly, @neverlee, @moranicol, @ivnhgo, @kinwiz, @squishna, @alleytac... and so one. These people are pure gold!! 😁 😁 5 replies
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I’m already a member of the channel and intend to participate actively, thank you very much, pkok. I’m a very introspective guy and have had a relatively difficult life, which has made my artistic journey quite challenging, but everything is aligning now... I remember the first international exhibition where my work was shown (and I couldn't attend in person), but it was a really nice moment.. it was a group exhibition of prints in Uruguay. I’m very proud to still be creating despite all the difficulties I’ve faced. That, for me, is my greatest achievement and what fills my heart. Every time artists I admire collect my work, I feel very, very happy. The support I’m receiving from everyone in Web3 is extremely gratifying. I still have a long way to go, and I know that a lot can still happen. 😁 3 replies
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Yes, like a roller coaster😅 My art has evolved a lot. Like most artists, I think we often start with drawing and my art education was classical. But early in my degree, I gravitated toward printmaking (woodcut, lithography, etching) and ended up specializing in it. However, because of my punk ideology, my art inevitably followed that path as well.
What has stayed with me is the idea of art as philosophical thought. I believe in that art should "comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable". I also learned to explore the concept of error in art through glitch and I use code to corrupt gifs and images. Sometimes it leans more conceptual, sometimes more visual, but it’s always subversive. From printmaking, I keep the serialization aspect.. I’m not much of a 1/1 artist. I’m now integrating JavaScript and 3D modeling to explore new areas in digital art. This is the path I’m on, and I strongly believe that generative art is the most avant-garde movement in the art world today. 1 reply
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Beauty is something very subjective and individual. It's complicated to define what beauty is. But, to me, beauty isn't something you see; it's something you feel. The beauty of a peaceful, equalizing act. The beauty in life itself. This question of what is beautiful and the pursuit of beauty is an old, classicist concept. In contemporary art, beauty isn't a relevant factor. Unfortunately, we were raised in a society with values rooted in Greco-Roman aesthetics, where perfection of form, the perfect body, is idealized. But contemporary art no longer considers this a big deal, right? Neither do I. Art doesn’t need to be beautiful... it needs to evoke emotions and reflections, challenging the observer to feel rather than just admire. I work with error. So, to me, failures are beauty. 1 reply
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That's right, I'm definitely not going in the wrong direction. Well, I’m quite creative; I rarely experience creative blocks, but they do happen. What I do to minimize that is to keep studying, always learning new things, and constantly challenging myself to push my limits. This, in turn, puts me in an exploration mode. I seek a lot of inspiration from what my colleagues here are doing, how they are solving their works, and what new things they are working on. But there are times when I need to stop everything, step back, connect with nature, breathe, and get my head in order. For that, I write a lot, play guitar, read, and especially talk with my friends IRL. I’m fortunate to have friends as creative as I am; they are also a source of inspiration. I surrounded myself with artists, and that is priceless. 1 reply
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