Instructures – Part 1 – Rocks, blocks, bones & stones
This is the first of 3 posts discussing Instructures, a generative art project on the Tezos blockchain. In part 1 I will provide som details on my art projects prior to Instructures. In part 2 I will provide some details on my experience with NFTs and NFT Twitter, and in part 3 I will get to the concept behind Instructures and explains some of the features exposed by the algorithm. I will attempt to make the posts understandable both to people familiar an unfamiliar to NFTS and blockchains.
Back when I was in school I went to art classes one afternoon every week, and during school holidays I always had some project where I would build things out of cardboard, draw some computer game level by level or do some collage work, playying computer games or messing around with Photoshop. When I finished school, it was time to choose a course for uiversity. It was going to be either something involving programming or art. Ultimately I settled on computer engineering, leaving my artistic tendencies to be satisfied by hobby activities. To make a long story short, I have been enjoying a career in development for some years and especially enjoy front-end development. Somewhere in 2017 I started to explore my artistic side again making colage works of mostly 3D inspired shapes as well as rocks and bones, essentially the the building blocks of all that surrunds us every day.
Vertical line #1 (2016), Cube #1 (2017)
Tetromino #3 (2018), Fool’s gold (2020)
Late night ABCs (2021), Aloe arborescens (2021)
3×3 Pixel font (uppercase)
NY-LA #001
NY-LA #019
NY-LA #006 is part of a limited series of 120 unique collectable artworks I'm making available on OpenSea. Each NFT has archival prints and drawings as companion pieces. Find out more about the project here https://t.co/ymNcj7w1Kr & here https://t.co/cIXMuYg2Xh #nftart #irlart pic.twitter.com/ckdoadEIvO
— Herman Pretorius (@sizeight) September 5, 2021
The lonely Tweet
Thanks to @punk6529 and @mintfaced my #NFTartworks have officially entered the metaverse. They have selected and acquired 4 of my GM artworks for the “6592 gm” gallery.
— Herman Pretorius (@sizeight) October 5, 2021
Browse the gallery here –› https://t.co/NpsgY738Vc
My GM collection on OpenSea –› https://t.co/8fqPbGp25M pic.twitter.com/aJYKIsMcGW
The @punk6529 Retweet