Some of our most interesting conversations are with the artists as they talk about the journey that took them to the remarkable pieces of art that they create.
Pieter, also known as Collective Unconscious 3D, shared with us some amazing stories about his process of self-discovery as a creator and how it led him to crypto for Episode 5 of ORBIT: Creator Editions.
We have had the pleasure of collaborating with Pieter for several Crowdmuse drops, including ‘Stay Optimistic’ Onchain Summit Sweatshirt, ‘ATTENTION + POWER’ Crew Neck by Slow Rodeo, and the Ethevacuations Watermelon Pin (بطيخ). He was also the first artist to release a Creator License on the Crowdmuse Marketplace with his 3D NPC Model.
In this interview we dive into…
🟥Pieter's OG digital nomad story working remotely through art while exploring various cultures and communities, mainly in Asia.
🟥His introduction to the NFT space through connections made on Clubhouse and collaboration with @wscfyi to an irl meeting
🟥The evolution of Pieter's art influenced by personal growth, existential questioning, and a shift towards grounding his identity.
🟥Exploration of self as part of community through online interactions and the implications for blockchain and trust building.
🟥His experience with co-creation with the remixing of his NPC Model Creator's Licence, originally used for Optimism's Onchain Summer Sweatshirt.
🟥Reflections on the future of creative art along the lines of personal development, individual identity over brand identity, and the power of decentralization to empower individual creators.
Some of the best parts include Pieter’s vision of how branding will evolve into a personal development experience to reflect individual identity:
“I hope it moves towards a more personal development space like a personal identity a more personal experience and less branded experience where the individual is more important and the interactions between individuals becomes important and I feel that's where it's moving as well away from centralization of of big companies and I hope this opens up a space for individuals to easily establish themselves as themselves”
…his views on how the concept of community becomes for fluid with the help of Crowdmuse
“I think this whole new community for example with Crowdmuse is a very fluid in that sense how to manage identities and people without ever even meeting each other and somehow it works like there's a how to build trust how you how can you trust somebody online and it's not easy because I I get clients fake clients who try to to hack me or all the time it's like a common thing so I think this blockchain and identity and again the solidification of your values kind of is within the blockchain within the job you do and that's why I like Crowdmuse it kind of solidifies who you are more and it gives you an identity automatically.”
…and his own personal evolution as a creator
“In the beginning I think I was very focused on contextualizing some kind of theory about this for example or like how to others would translate into art I was always tackling like very deep concepts but now I'm more like back to basics and back to what is identity and how can we translate identity and I was actually the project I was talking about with Wes as well about how we can make identity and profile pictures more customizable in adaptation with your values your boundaries and your emotions”
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