NFT Art - Unattainable Landscapes

Because of the confinement I've experience due to COVID, I have started creating landscapes I could not see while staying at home. Dreamscapes or unattainable landscapes that combine photos of far off places and layered with impossible weather patterns, waving rainbows, and even shimmering hair.

You can collect the Unattainable Landscapes series as NFTs on Objkt.com.

Process

The process was born out of missing the opportunity to travel, and I found myself scrolling through old travel photos online. Realizing that many of them were within the public domain, I started manipulating the images using image and video editing software and code. Promising myself, that most nights I had time before bed with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil I received for teaching a soft circuits workshop and curating a talk at the apple store, I started to experiment.

My early experiments were using vintage photos, primarily from the Library of Congress free to use and reuse image collections. From there I asked friends and family for landscapes they missed that I could make magical.

Exhibitions

Ongoing: I’m posting them regularly via See Unattainable Landscapes via @nikistyxx on Instagram using the hashtag #unattainablelandscapes and OBJKT

December 2021: ‘ 🦋🗼🌿 #unattainablelandscapes’ and ‘🌸 🐇 ☁️ #unattainablelandscapes’ presented in the Pieces \ Places Collection, a selection of NFT artworks from the Gray Area community.

Press and Media

August 2022 Discussing NFT art with Seerlight as part of the NFT San Francisco Conference. 🎧 Listen Here

July 2022 Discussing NFTs as activism with Laura Shin and Badiucao at Oslo Freedom Forum on the Unchained Podcast - 🎧 Listen Here

January 2022 Featured by the San Francisco Examiner for NFT art and curation. ‘We don’t need to work anymore’: Local artists crack the code of NFTs'

January 2022 The Arts Tribune features my NFT Art and thought leadership, “Nobody gets mad at a photographer for selling prints, and nobody gets mad at a painter for selling a painting, so why are we so upset about a digital artist selling an mp4 or a JPEG?” she asks. “It’s not good or bad; it’s just another way to sell and collect art.”