An NFT Evening With Artist Alex Benedith

Welcome to “An NFT Night With…”, a weekly characteristic the place we shine a highlight on a number of the gifted NFT artists in our neighborhood. 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 form of surrealist cyberpunkian dystopia. The textures, colors and rendering create a temper that’s jarring however acquainted. Are you able to inform us just a little 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’re continuously being watched and it impacts us in our life decisions.

NFTE: That’s very true, particularly for these of us who reside on-line. It’s why artists, who put themselves on the market by means 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 inventive thoughts is a prerequisite. I’ve the Asperger’s syndrome and it form 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 means of my mates. A lot of them continuously requested me to hitch the neighborhood and promote my artworks as NFT.

NFTE: It’s a very good factor they did! So why did you begin making your individual NFT artwork?

Benedith: I began due to my mates and after studying plenty of articles and information involving NFT, it made me actually curious and . I joined this world as a imply to pursue my dream to reside 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 purpose. What about NFTs makes this doable, do you suppose?

Benedith: I see that the NFT got here to alter 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 a couple of clicks at the moment you’ll be able to show your work on the market and that is one thing that has benefited me over the previous couple of months and so many different artists. With NFT, it’s and might be doable to make a dwelling from artwork.

Earlier than, you struggled to be seen by an organization and dreamed of a creative place in it. Right now 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 very placing picture. I’m questioning the way you do one thing like that? It seems like a photograph from a fantasy world. What instruments did you employ?

Benedith: I made [“Being Watched”] by means 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 usually contain much more applications, it could be 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 hard and fast schedule. At any time when I discover the inspiration I’ll come to my pc and begin working.

NFTE: It looks like the best technique! Now, in relation to your artwork, what do you hope individuals will take away from it?

Benedith: I want individuals would really feel and perceive every part 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 unique universe that’s my thoughts and so they all are linked. Solely when individuals perceive this connection is once they’ll join with me.

Alex Benedith, seeking to the NFT future

NFTE: Talking of connections, do you may have any favorite NFT artists you comply with?

Benedith: I absolutely 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 longer term could be very brilliant, it’s an ascending market and it’ll profit not solely me however a variety 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 massive thanks to Alex for taking the time to speak with us this week. Yow will discover Alex on-line in every kind of locations, like Twitter, Instagram, Foundation, Hic et Nunc and naturally his website.

Tune in subsequent week for one more peek into the NFT artwork world, and within the meantime, you’ll want to comply with Alex in every single place you’ll be able to. That is your “I knew him when…” second. Don’t miss out!

Observe: This interview has been edited for area and readability.