can i be more than just digitally yours? by Yosnier
can i be more than just digitally yours?
Bio
Yosnier is a digital artist based in Tampa, Florida. Their work is inspired by the varying degrees of love, growth, and self-development through life experiences Yosnier's work is spiritual, depicting the complexities of pain, love, resilience, and joy through soft luminosity. Their work also incorporates themes relating to tarot cards, astrology, and celestial bodies. Yosnier employs their own visual vocabulary, often returning to common motifs drawn from tarot cards, astrology, and celestial bodies. These motifs appear regularly throughout their practice and speak to each other from piece-to-piece, with many pieces of their identity scattered throughout each work. Yosnier enjoys tackling the many layers that contribute to their very existence, letting their mind and vision run free. Yosnier’s work has appeared at Christie’s, Superrare, NFT Now, Scope Art Fair Miami Beach, and the Orlando Museum of Art (as part of the 2023 Florida Prize for Contemporary Art), among others.
About the Work
Through completely digital (vectorized) compositions, my work relies on the contrast of pastel colour palettes and thick, dark outlines, resulting in compositions that recall stained glass. I create almost exclusively in Adobe Illustrator, with Photoshop serving as my aid from time to time for sketching and exporting.
About This Piece
My CryptoCubes piece, "Can I be more than just digitally yours?" depicts how it felt to be on the other side of, what felt like, a parasocial relationship. Most of the time as artists and creators, we're stuck in what feels like a vacuum of consumption for others to create images in their heads of who and what you should be. Personally, I've experienced this many times and it's left me drained. When I first laid eyes on the CryptoCube that I chose, I knew that there would be a connection between that and this concept. It kinda plays into and creates a double entendre; NFTs being almost all digital and the parasocial standpoint of not being seen beyond what lies digitally.
Future
NFTs and Web3 are what made me able to focus almost entirely on creating art. They provided an open door when things didn't seem so possible for my [digital] work. I'm not entirely sure what the future will bring, but I'm hoping that more people like me are able to create in ways that are fulfilling and healing, whilst also being able to live off of said creations. I imagine that that is what we all wish for; a world where we can ideally exist without burning ourselves to the ground in ways that don't serve anyone in any way.
