_{O Superman, digital art 2018}

 

Dear friends,

some people think, that using software and generative algorithms to create art, is something, that everbody can do. In my opinion, the result still depends on various decisions, that I make as an artist, rather than on the tools I'm using.

Following the invitation of @sndbox to share my latest #cryptoart, I wanted to show you a bit of the process of my work called "O Superman", that is available as a rare #erc20 token at the cryptoart marketplace SuperRare.

The Source

It all started with this photography of my younger self, that was shot in the Dominican Republic in 1990. Because I'm not taking myself too serious, I used Photoshop a few years later to put a Superman logo on my chest, that looked as if it had been caused by a sunburn.

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The Process

Since I have started experimenting with crypto-art, I took a lot of old photos and transformed them using software like Processing and Glitché. In this case I added scanlines to blur all the edges of the photo and alienated my face with a 'liquify' filter. In the next step I used Photoshop again, to repair the artifacts at my neck.

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After that, I've run a process, that tranforms images into lines-art.

Next Version

Although I somewhat liked the result, I wasn't finished with the work and tried a different approach. So here is a bit of the process of my second version:

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As you can see, I used various manipulations again (like glitch, channel-shift and mosh) to deconstruct and transform the original image into something, that leaves room for interpretation. Here is the finished piece in full size:

Crypto Art?

Although I usually do not make art, that explicitly deals with #crypto related topics, I call myself a cryptoartist, because I recently started to tokenize a lot of digital art and offered them on crypto-art marketplaces like SuperRare, KnownOrigin and MakersPlace.

I found the confidence to do so, after I shared my art at Steemit for the last 2.5 years and received a lot of positive feedback. In addition, I'm into crypto since 2014 and the whole topic became somewhat the center of my thinking.

Concepts like being able to tokenize my works and transform them into a scarce, tradable token enables me to independently sell my art and to even benefit from secondary sells.

No wonder, I sometimes feel like a Superman ;-)

Thanks for stopping by!

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