CryptoArt Sundays: Interview with VOLOVISIONS
Welcome to another epic round of CryptoArt Sundays, featuring VOLOVISIONS!
VOLOVISIONS aka Oliver Brusca is a visionary artist who bridges the gap between the seen and the unseen through his incredible talent for colour, images and painting. His focus is on traditional painting as well as digital art, and his artworks express visual information from visionary states, dreams and out-of-body experiences.
I bet you are now wondering more about who he is and his artwork, so let’s dive in like we always do!
How did you find out about the NFT space and what drew you to creating your own NFTs?
Word of NFTs has spread throughout online artist communities that I’m a part of, and while I didn’t pay much attention to it at first, I recently took the deep dive into researching what’s possible with NFTs and the various marketplaces that are currency around.
At first I just got to know how the NFT space works by putting some pieces on different platforms and now I’m getting excited about the creative potential of NFT art and the story/message that I can start to weave through it. m offer.
How often do you cook?
My creation cycles come in waves. When I’m feeling really inspired and active, I’ll usually be in an ecstatic state where I create art every day for weeks or months on end!
At a certain point I can feel the tide changing and need some time to rest and gather new ideas.
What is your creative process?
My creative process varies quite a bit depending on the medium, but most of my ideas start from images in dreams, meditations and from various out-of-body experiences. I have had quite a visual experience in what I can vaguely appear to be realms unseen in our ordinary state of consciousness.
My artistic expression has been a way for me to process these highly abstract and mystical images from visionary states. I will usually start with a very rough sketch of this, sometimes done in the middle of the night – which I will eventually spend time working into a more complex graphite sketch.
From this more refined sketch, I will refine it further with pen until I have the image as rendered as I want it. Sometimes I like to just leave the pieces in black/white pen/ink – but lately I’ve been taking these drawings and transferring them to canvas for painting, which is another way to further develop the image.
If I’m working digitally – I’ll still often start with the sketch, scan and upload it so I have a starting place to work from.
Are there any crypto artists you would like to collaborate with?
There are many traditional painters that I admire and would love to collaborate with (Izzy Ivy, Luke Schroeder, Vajra, Joseph Skala, Seth McMahon) just to name a few.
I’m still getting acclimated with ‘CryptoArtists’ and finding those I feel inspired by, but I have more history and connections in the world of traditional painters.
Some of them may also have NFTs available, but I wouldn’t call them exclusively crypto artists.
What do you think the future of CryptoArt will look like?
It is hard to say! The honest answer is I have no idea. The direction I would be inspired by would be to see crypto art give way to a more in-depth presentation of art, with words/video/music/images combined together into a cohesive piece.
What are you working on now?
At the moment I have a lot of work going on as usual! I have a few large canvas paintings that I am working on completing and digitizing along with some new sketches that are in the nascent stages that will eventually make it onto canvas or digitally.
I’m also looking at creative ways to combine my art and music together into a unique piece that I can’t quite explain yet, but it’s a work in progress 🙂
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