It took a clear, cloudless night, and an almost full moon, and it struck me.
My thoughts immediately catapulted me back to an uncertain time in human history, where physics weren’t researched, and numbers not yet discovered.
What went throught the mind of the person watching the moon back then? My guesses took me in all directions. With all the knowledge that we accumulated over decades and centuries, the view is still the same.
The moon still is, like at the dawn of mankind, a distant, mystified object, only reachable in our imagination and visual perception.Looking up at the moon today, makes me think intensively about a version of the future within my crypto themed vision.
In my new painting series: FUTURE FIRMAMENT, the conceptual “future“, in the form of a moon, rises between the cloud of fiat money.
As I told my serial collector, M.BTC, who bought the first painting straight away: when he holds the painting with both hands, he can rotate it, shake it, and the Fiat Banknotes will form a new cloud. This will give him more or less vision of the moon, and get him a new painting as a result.
A new perception and new future, if you so will.That’s the power I see in my physical art.
Now I know that even if there is only one future, we still have to disrupt and create to make it our future.
For the cover I made for this volume of Citadel21, I liked the idea of a flashlight spot, and me moving secretly with my art on a dark and uncertain path. In a fairly new art genre, as a crypto artist I still move underground, with no boundaries and limits. This is the same feeling I had back when hip-hop was still underground and unregulated, and when I started doing graffiti 30 years ago.
Right now, I like to move in the underground, through dark terrain, and hope that one day the switch will flip, and result in a bright future.
RYR is a german artist who initially started out on the streets, where he was honing his artistic skills through graffiti painting. Before long, he made a bold decision to move into the studio where he continued to explore his creative interest in contemporary mediums, resulting in an art form.
RYR makes his artworks out of Fiat banknotes – handcrafted paper made of cellulose and shredded banknotes from around the world. Since 2019 RYR expanded his artistic outlet through RYR STUDIO, where he works with associates on design and apparel.