NFT CULTURE ARTICLE

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Can you tell us about your background and what lead you down the path to becoming an artist and ultimately experimenting with NFTs?

I am French of Senegalese and Cape Verdean origin. I was born in a department of Ile de France very close to Paris. I grew up in a city in a loving family with a musician father very famous in Cape Verde. My family has always been very supportive of me. Very early I started to scribble things on the corners of pages of my notebooks at school and this until my adolescence. It was only later when I entered university that I discovered photoshop and I felt deep inside that it was the tool that would allow me to explore my artistic inner strength and allow me to bring to life the ideas I had in my head, and this in a more precise and efficient way than the drawings allowed me. From that moment on I never stopped creating. For me it became as natural as breathing. Creating had become the thing I did most in my life to the point where my dream became to live fully from my art and to be recognized as an artist. Especially since blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies were areas that interested me a lot and this since 2017 so in the end it was only natural for me to venture into this wonderful world of NFTs.

What are your passions besides art?

My other passion outside of art is bodybuilding because I am deeply convinced that developing your body goes hand in hand with developing your mind. This is what I try to do with the means that are mine. This allows me to constantly challenge myself, to surpass myself both physically and mentally and to become a better person.

Who are your favorite Artists?

My all time favorite artist far ahead from all the others is the painter William Bouguereau.

What made you pursue NFT art?

The main thing that made me venture more and more into this NFT world is the idea that my work can be immutably integrated to the blockchain. Starting my NFT journey in early 2021 I felt like a pioneer in a world where I can be recognized for my work, a world where many other artists are also present, exchanging and developing again and again. What comes in second time is the fact that I can thanks to that envisage to live of my work, more especially that to enter the universe of the NFT was worth to me to be exposed in incredible places (Japan / Los angeles in particular) and to work with big names of the art of our times! I think that the day my instinct pushed me to venture into this path was the day I made one of the best decisions of my life.

How did you come up with your specific style?

At the beginning I was someone who drew a lot, and over the years I started to draw on the computer. My drawings were very manga oriented so I did that for a number of years. After a while I didn’t like it anymore so I started to try several things more oriented to digital art such as collages. Little by little I went from the art of collage to the art of mixed media in the sense that before my work was mostly akin to photo manipulation or photobashing. But little by little I started to work with 3D which opened a whole new field of possibilities. Today I integrate forms or elements that I have created in 3D to royalty free photographs or photos provided by the photographer in case of collaboration.

How has your style evolved over the years?

I would say that over the years my skills and the way I build my artworks have changed. I feel much more capable of bringing my ideas to life. My skills in 3D have evolved and I’m more and more emancipated from photography and my 3d elements take more and more places in my work which gives me more and more artistic freedom.

What are your other passions besides art?

My other passion outside of art is bodybuilding because I am deeply convinced that developing your body goes hand in hand with developing your mind. This is what I try to do with the means that are mine. This allows me to constantly challenge myself, to surpass myself both physically and mentally and to become a better person. When I look back I feel a lot of coldness in my artworks and see that over time I have transmitted more warmth, more life, in particular through more organic forms which are also emancipating themselves more and more from the coldness of the metal. I wanted more and more to bring my own aesthetic into the world of cyberpunk / transhumanism. Play more with more fluid organic and colored shapes. My challenge today is to go beyond conveying emotions through my works but to tell a story. And this will be more visible in my next work.

If you could travel anywhere in the world where would it be?
It would be in Japan

What is your Favorite NFT?

Its a piece called ‘Peace Talks’ made by the artist @deArtifact

What other information would you like featured?

Art is life.