VITALI-VERSE COLLECTION + MODERN SYMPTOMS DUO by CryptoSpectr

CryptoSpectr

Multidisciplinary Artist of European descent with a background in animation, illustration, design, fine art, sculpture & designer toys, has worked with digital art tools since 1998 and VR creative tools since 2017. Joined the Crypto/NFT scene early 2020 and made fantastic sales of VR art video NFTs throughout the year on both SuperRare and KnownOrigin. Leans towards graphic art, cubist, surrealist and realist styles / satirical, gothic, intricate, exquisite, natural, futurist, fantasy and spiritual themes.

The VITALIVERSE Collection

Picture a distorted mirror world reflecting the exploits of Vitalik Buterin and as the mist clears you may just glimpse these weird and wonderful fantasy multiverse personifications of the man himself, reflections of the disruptive, speculative, futurist, playful nature of his public persona.

Since discovering crypto I have been very much inspired by Vitalik and his unique approach and philosophy on the subject of decentralised currency & finance, I believe it has far reaching implications and the potential to change the way things are done around here in a positive sense. I shaped the base of his T-shirt like a little Ghost, maybe because I’m Spectr, but also because I picture his accomplishments with blockchain technology lasting on through the decades and one might say that Vitalik could become, as Satoshi Nakamoto has, a kind of ‘ghost in the machine’ of the future webiverse and financial infrastructures.

MODERN SYMPTOMS Duo

This is the start of an ongoing series of surreal and satirical artworks which explore contemporary themes, through a bizarre lens. Both of these initial pieces began as automatic drawings and amongst the confusing marks produced using this technique I frequently find strange fractured characters with a distinctly cubist twang to them and VR design tools have quickly become my favourite way to realise them in digital 3D.

They usually emerge mangled together with other forms and objects which can act like sign posts to what sort of scene or setting they might belong in. There is often a sense of transformation or violent explosion in these odd characters, which to me is very reflective of the highly changeable and disruptive times that we’re currently living through in terms of culture, society, technology and so on. I will continue to reflect and explore these ideas through this ongoing series of digital artwork.

NOTE: With the exception of "SHARDING ELEMENTAL VITALIK" all pieces in this collection are FIRST COME FIRST SERVE