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We thought hard about being a @moxie.eth Hero this week and how we'll celebrate that. Introducing Pkok Finterviews - Cast-form farcaster interviews, 20 questions to some of our favorite people. We aim to tell stories of phenomenal individuals shaping the art ecosystem on web3. It's also a great way for us and other heroes to get to know and engage with them. Oh! each interview starts with /degen love. But wait, there's more! These Finterviews are not restricted to only those we tag. If you'd like to participate, just respond to the questions and join the party, everybody is invited to be a part of these Finterviews. Tell us more about yourself, read other people's stories and hopefully we all get to know each other better by the end. Pkok Finterviews, a 🧵

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Everyone is welcome to our Finterview. If you want to participate, let's start with this one... What does the term “masterpiece” mean to you?

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A masterpiece is an old fashioned art term for a work completed by an artist at the top of their game. Or perhaps an artist who is now dead so suddenly ALL their works are deemed masterpieces to inflate their value... Is it possible for a living artist to produce a masterpiece? I am not sure. I reckon Damien Hirst thinks his Shark in Formaldehyde is one, or his Jewel Skull. Somehow I don't think Tracy Emin regards her tent as one. I think some of the definition of a "living masterpiece" rests on how big the artist's ego is. I reality I think a masterpiece is a piece of work that transcends its own time and resonates with future generations of viewers. May I suggest that any of Monet's Water Lilies could be considered masterpieces for this reason? How about Picasso's Guernica, Goya's The Third of May, Rothko's Black on Maroon? God, I sound like an art teacher...

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Welcome to our Finterview :) 1000 $degen How would you describe your artistic style to someone unfamiliar with your work?

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I work very quickly with a piece of generative software called Noisedeck to create animated gifs that use various layered visual generators to produce complex looping abstract imagery. I hope to produce the kind of image one may get when falling asleep or waking up. I am currently obsessed with creating The Perfect Loop where the eye doesn't notice the join. My images are most certainly influenced by the pixel artists, lo-fi glitch-makers and proper generative coders out there on the NFT web but I hope to have created something of my own groove within these genres, somewhere between these Three Pillars of NFT Wisdom. I also rather love the simplicity and bluntly abstract visual imagery of the very famous Mark Rothko. Specific NFT artists who have influenced me, in no particular order are @nbswwit @daturascore.eth @gogolitus @thisisgonz @stc @winterbloed @chepertom ... continues

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Followed them all 🫡 What initially drew you to art, and how did your journey as an artist begin?

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In Art College in 1972 I was told by a tutor I could paint ok so of course I dropped it all for Conceptual Art. Many, many years later after a career in music (not art) my son told me about Hic et Nunc and WOW did I re-engage with art again. The joy of software generated imagery and software generated sales just grabbed me and although I just said I had a career in music (not art) there was a year or two in the noughties when I painted abstract paintings almost to order and sold one a month at a local gallery. That's when I discovered the joy of actually making art that people buy, without painting crap. The NFT world, while being full of artists who do the electronic version of painting crap is also an inspiring market for artists like myself. I like to "stack them high, sell them cheap". Not for me the Superrare pricetags; if you sell enough works at $5 you can make a lot of money. So, I make work that I hope people will buy. I also have to like it!

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Has farcaster helped you in making that a reality? How has your experience been so far on fc?

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I think Farcaster is a brilliant way of getting free from X (I deleted my account after 12 years) and it actually works, unlike Bluesky and Mastodon. Posts often become sales thanks to the frame thing and I have met a lot of interesting new artist since having to start afresh from zero followers. Luckily a lot of names here are familiar, and I must say they engage more on FC than they ever did on X. BTW I finally was moved to dump the Tweets after Musk claimed that the UK (my home country) was on the verge of civil war after a couple of rightwing riots here. The man is full of s*it. So, yes Farcaster has helped me grow sales and actually communicate with people, like yourselves! And here's a picture, apropos of nothing.

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That's amazing to hear. Who are some people who make your fc experience exponentially better?

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Don't want to seem a creep but @pkok for the way you opened your arms to everyone in your channel to promote discussions such as this! @kayvon for creating Rodeo.club to utilise Farcaster's unique sales and communication strengths. @eluatu for being a consistent collector and fellow artist who has stayed with me since we both left X (he was forced off when it closed in Brazil). @v4w-enko for the same too, another old face from @objktcom And new people such as @paul-prudence who has unknowingly challenged me to make better, more thoughtful art!

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Let's resume the talk, shall we? Can you share a moment when you felt truly proud or fulfilled as an artist?

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It is probably the moment my son's video art went on tour with Aphex Twin this year. So, not my work at all, but I like to think I encouraged and inspired him when he was younger to study art and now his career has gone stratospheric. His page on IG is https://www.instagram.com/ze.zima/

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This is very nice! Like father, like son! His works are really good. Let us ask you something else: how has your art evolved over the years, and what has stayed consistent?

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The art has evolved to become more self-confident. I have stopped being blown away by whatever my latest craze is or by attempting to imitate my favourite art of the moment. But on the other hand there is a consistency in my desire to make work that sells. So I have to keep an eye on what is currently, dare I say it "on trend". Is this a dichotomy or a balancing act? It's a generative thing that keeps moving and wobbling....

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True, everything changes and evolves. What do you want people to feel or experience when they see your work?

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Seriously, I want them to open their Tezos wallet and go, "I can afford that!". I have an inner shopkeeper that just wants to sell, sell, sell. But my inner serious artist wants them to feel slightly hypnotised and would like them to linger on the image for a while to take in all the minute variations in patterns that I hope don't repeat too quickly. Ultimately I would love to go somewhere like alternate.cx by @kimasendorf where the art never loops at all, but I just can't do the math! Which reminds me, I should have included them in the list of artists who inspire me.

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What does beauty mean to you as an artist?

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Ouch! That's a deep one. Is it "in the eye of the beholder"? Is it something you can buy? Is it an ancient Greek thing, is it purely a physical attraction to someone or something? I don't know the answer. As an artist I don't think I deal with beauty, rather I deal with aesthetics inasmuch as I make constant aesthetic choices. How these relate to beauty is perhaps another discussion?

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The distance between aesthetics and beauty is not very large but let's change a bit the direction of our conversation, shall we? Can you talk about a moment of failure or doubt in your journey, and what it taught you about your craft?

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I often doubt my technical ability, especially in the maths area, to produce genuine generative art. A specific moment of failure could have been when I consciously "faked up" some generative line-work on Rodeo. I used some distorted scans of, admittedly, my own abstract drawings, but I submitted them in the generative section when TBH they should have been submitted as sketches. They did really well as it happens but I had to admit to myself it was a hollow feeling I experienced as I counted the micro-ETH that evening.

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We appreciate your honesty, as many would try to hide such happenings. How do you handle creative blocks, and what helps you find new inspiration?

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