Minting NFTs.

Even though I'm a huge fan of paper, I've always struggled with translating my digitally born work to print. A digital work - especially if it's a (.gif) animation - lives in the adaptive dimensions of screens. A print is just one image: an animation has at least 2.

Recently, a new medium has found its way into the mainstream: the NFT, the non-fungible token. This has gained traction through bids of outlandish amounts of (crypto-)money on digital works, but, as always, money is just a small part of the story.

For artists whose works arise in the digital realm - I'm leaving people who're selling digital photos of physical works as NFTs out of the equation (ugh!) - the NFT offers an interesting perspective: sketches, in-between-steps, or other works without dimensions and with no physical place to go can actually be transferred to other people, they can be sold as editions or as uniques - and, more importantly, resold while the creator is awarded a percentage of the profit for (provisional) eternity.

I'm working on launching an NFT project at www.hicetnunc.xyz, which uses a cryptocurrency called Tezos; a much less energy-consuming alternative for Bitcoin or Ethereum. To my utter surprise, in my testing phase, I've sold 3 NFTs - mind you, at quite democratic prizes of course.

This is a super interesting thing to follow, though it all is still quite messy in many ways: it's almost impossible to find 'quality' digital art in the immense stream of images, at the moment.

In 2019, I've made a series of ultrashort animations with the Instagram Stories feature. These 52 .gifs resemble moving cards, late-Medieval emblems, and are entirely constructed with emoji and stickers, some of which I made myself when I still had a Giphy artist account.

I'll post a link to the collection as soon as I'm ready.

(Image: #33, made on August 4, 2019. See the whole series in the highlights in my Instagram profile: and for the saga on Giphy this never quite finished blogpost.)

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