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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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