I am a visual artist from Colombia, I have a bachelor's in graphic design and a master and a half on visual arts. Graduated from a fancy European Royal Academy of Arts.
I am Anon, I rather not share actual personal information, for this reason I am not sharing my previous art before I started with generative AI. But I can tell you I have used many techniques; When still studying graphic design I Started with digital collage, mixing photographs with pictures form the internet in Photoshop. Then I went to various types of illustration.
When studying my first master (The one I didn't finish) I ended up doing online performances, broadcasting live via Skype to the other side of the world while it was shown live on TV. Also, some performances on the metaverse as well as installations.
On my second master they told me "Get out of your comfort zone". So, I went completely analog. They had many great workshops, so I ended up doing a lot of ceramic, like a lot. Also, silk screen, painting, drawing, installations with readymade objects, even made a sculpture with cardboard boxes. And thanks to all this hard work I won the price of the best master's exhibition of the city that year.
That price got me a new exhibition where I jumped to another material, fabric. So, I went I bought myself a sewing machine and thought myself how to make clothes, uneven and funky clothes, but nevertheless clothes.
After that I enter a residency program where my whole project was to make a dress, continuing with my fabric period.
Then came the pandemic, and I was so disenchanted with the art world and had so little space in the house to actually create something that I decided that I was going to quit visual arts and become a writer. So, I went and enroll on an online course of creative writing of an American university and began almost two years of writing short stories and starting a novel that I never finished. Shared some texts here and there but that was it.
So how did I end up in NFTs?
I had decided in the past to quit all social media, for many reasons, but I still missed some scrolling and internet memes. So, I entered the wild west of Reddit, and there is where for the first time I started to see the AI art that was emerging. Blurry, abstract, actually not interesting for me at all. Until a post appeared on my screen, it was a cyberpunk inspired scene of an Indian woman sitting in front of an old-fashioned computer console. The perspective was all wrong, but OMG this was getting interesting!
My cousin told me several times to do NFTs, but analog art didn't match the edge of crypto! AI art on the other hand to me is perfect for it. With my history of switching media, it was not a hard decision. And that's how I fell in the rabbit hole of Crypto Twitter.
My art is raw AI, I do not alter my images at all other than with the tools provided by the platforms themselves, because to me that's the beauty of it, I love the challenge of the constrain, what can I do only using this tool? Can I master this to the point of not needing to alter it?
I been using Midjourney, but I could switch at some point to another model, who knows?
My style is eclectic like my choices of media during my whole artistic journey. And I get bored fast. But I think you can see my pieces and identify my art, if you follow what I do.
I like edgy characters, I like textures and fabric, I like mistic creatures and magic.
Neon.
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