Welcome to “An NFT Night With…”, a weekly function the place we shine a highlight on a few of the gifted NFT artists in our group. This week we’re that includes Alex Benedith, a Brazilian artist specializing in moody, cyberpunk-inspired photographs. Learn on to seek out out the place Alex finds inspiration, and what concerning the crypto artwork world he thinks is “magic”…
NFT Night: Your piece “Being Watched” is a beautiful work exhibiting a sort of surrealist cyberpunkian dystopia. The textures, colors and rendering create a temper that’s jarring however acquainted. Are you able to inform us a little bit bit about it?
Alex Benedith: “Being Watched” was my very first NFT bought on Basis. It portrays the privateness that we don’t have these days, you might be consistently being watched and it impacts us in our life selections.
NFTE: That’s very true, particularly for these of us who dwell on-line. It’s why artists, who put themselves on the market by way of their work, are so spectacular. On this chaotic world of ours, the place do you get your inspiration from?
Benedith: I work with artwork administration, and to have a artistic thoughts is a prerequisite. I’ve the Asperger’s syndrome and it sort of makes me see the world with different eyes, and I attempt to put it in my artworks in an try of exhibiting everybody what I see.
Entry into the NFT-verse
NFTE: So how did you get into NFTs within the first place?
Benedith: The primary time I heard about NFT was by way of my associates. A lot of them consistently requested me to affix the group and promote my artworks as NFT.
NFTE: It’s an excellent factor they did! So why did you begin making your personal NFT artwork?
Benedith: I began due to my associates and after studying a lot of articles and information involving NFT, it made me actually curious and . I joined this world as a imply to pursue my dream to dwell off my artwork, which is what I understand how to do and like to do.
NFTE: That’s one thing we hear from many artists: the concept, earlier than NFTs, incomes a dwelling off artwork was extra of a dream than a aim. What about NFTs makes this potential, do you suppose?
Benedith: I see that the NFT got here to vary the barrier that the artist needed to promote his artwork, knocked down a number of partitions till his work reached an artwork collector or appreciator, with just a few clicks immediately you possibly can show your work on the market and that is one thing that has benefited me over the previous few months and so many different artists. With NFT, it’s and might be potential to make a dwelling from artwork.
Earlier than, you struggled to be seen by an organization and dreamed of a creative place in it. At the moment you create a gallery on one of many NFT websites and also you promote your artwork. You might be incomes to do what you like most, that is magic.
NFT artwork on the thoughts
NFTE: So let’s get again to the magic. “Being Watched” is a extremely putting picture. I’m questioning the way you do one thing like that? It appears like a photograph from a fantasy world. What instruments did you employ?
Benedith: I made [“Being Watched”] by way of 3D software program (Blender 3D) and was completed with post-production in Photoshop, I mix 3D with 2D within the course of and so create my artwork. I typically contain much more packages, it is perhaps 4 to five to get to a course of like this.
NFTE: One other course of query: when and the place do you do your artwork?
Benedith: I normally don’t have a set schedule. At any time when I discover the inspiration I’ll come to my pc and begin working.
NFTE: It looks as if the suitable technique! Now, in terms of your artwork, what do you hope folks will take away from it?
Benedith: I want folks would really feel and perceive all the pieces behind each work of mine. I attempt to inform a small story in each single artwork, all of them has it’s personal that means in a distinct universe that’s my thoughts and so they all are linked. Solely when folks perceive this connection is after they’ll join with me.
Alex Benedith, seeking to the NFT future
NFTE: Talking of connections, do you could have any favorite NFT artists you comply with?
Benedith: I certainly do! @Stuz0r is my inspiration. He’s the rationale I began finding out 3D artwork. Now, I attempt to unify 3D and 2D creating my artworks.
NFTE: Final query earlier than we go, and it’s a giant one. What do you suppose is the way forward for NFTs, and the way do you see your self in that future?
Benedith: The long run may be very shiny, it’s an ascending market and it’ll profit not solely me however a number of artists. So long as I can proceed to the touch everybody’s coronary heart with my arts sooner or later, that’s sufficient for me.
A really large thanks to Alex for taking the time to speak with us this week. You’ll find Alex on-line in all types of locations, like Twitter, Instagram, Foundation, Hic et Nunc and naturally his website.
Tune in subsequent week for an additional peek into the NFT artwork world, and within the meantime, make sure you comply with Alex in every single place you possibly can. That is your “I knew him when…” second. Don’t miss out!
Be aware: This interview has been edited for house and readability.