DISTANCED MEMORIES - LOCKDOWN 2020 DIARY IN iPHONE THUMBNAILS / PT. 2

19 - 25 APRIL 2020

Books read: Writing With Hitchcock by Steven DeRosa & The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

Notable events: First bike rides of lockdown; Blue bells explode across the countryside; elsewhere, my favourite plant, the ceanothus, also appears as a huge bush outside local church.

25 APRIL - 02 MAY 2020

Notable events: Blue colours begin to get replaced by the colours of summer; Caterpillar; Crops growing; Lots of bike rides in deserted countryside. 

Saved to iPhone ( below ) Additional Thumbnails: Friend's cat relaxing in the sun; Scene outside sister's apartment, Madrid, mid-May - kids let out of apartments for the first time. Dad stands by while kid climbs nearest tree.

TALES FROM THE 'CRIPTO' - MY FIRST NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN ART

A few weeks ago, the Spanish-speaking world's premiere cryptocurrency commentator, speculator and all-round professor Juan en Cripto, asked me to create some artwork for an NFT (Non-Fungible Token ) to celebrate his achieving a milestone following of ten thousand Youtube subscribers.

After some experiments, Juan elected to go for a 'baseball-card' design for the limited edition run of ten pieces. Using blockchain technology, he will give a copy to the most loyal of his grass-roots followers, and they will each retain certified ownership of this artwork. Other reproductions could be made, but the certification that theirs is the legit artefact and not an unauthorised copy means that it may ultimately have a value like a piece of traditional, real-world art.

Of course, you can imagine that this technology will soon be applied to all digital art, and those who have legitimate proof of ownership of an original will be able to benefit from an increase in its value, and the artist will also be guaranteed a cut from any future sales.

As an arch capitalist who loves money, I can only give my wholehearted approval of this innovative and disruptive technology.

Qué es un NFT en Watafan (RSK) + SORPRESA ¿NFT GRATIS? 🎁 (2021)

DISTANCED MEMORIES - LOCKDOWN 2020 DIARY IN iPHONE THUMBNAILS / PT. 1

APRIL 2020

Notable events: Continuous blue skies; first meal in back garden; first appearance of blue and purple spring flowers.

Book read: The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre.

Additional: I spent the end of March and into April 2020 getting as much sunshine as I could, even though it was cold outside. I was very conscious of the fact that my mood would be regulated by natural light ( while adhering to the rules, obviously ). Usually this meant sitting and reading.

Luckily, in the UK we were gifted with blue skies and very favourable weather almost as soon as lockdown was announced. 

When I see these thumbnails in my iPhone, I don't even need to open the actual photographs, they represent vivid impressions of the time, and of the changing seasons during lockdown. 

...To be continued.

NEW HIEROGLYPHS - EXPERIMENTAL WORK

Digital composition features a mix of geometric vector shapes overlaid with natural real-world paintbrush strokes, vectorised.

New Hieroglyphs, Vector drawing.

GRID EXPERIMENT

Vector Art experiment. I'm not usually a fan of random painterly gestures but I do love the hard collision of amorphous shapes next to a simple grid form, as if a hole was ripped in the surface of the screen.