my latest oil painting is 8 feet tall and borrows from beeple, ruairi robinson and others. my work is always made by combining pieces of historical and popular culture. it seemed like time for beeple.
Artist
@nfnkalyan
's father passed away 4 years ago. He decided to preserve his memory by launching
@DeadDadCoin
.
The backstory comes across as less of a stunt than it might appear on the surface.
Read my interview on
@decryptmedia
👇
i loved my dad. love my dad.
i think $ddc is hard for some people to understand. mostly people who have lost loved ones and they know that it hurts too much to joke about. or the jokes are just to cover how much it hurts.
what separates
@DeadDadCoin
memes is i’m the fucking goat irl.
if salvador dali also made memes 60 years ago it would be comparable.
i’ll put my body of work up against anyone alive or dead.
just finished this 30x40 inch oil painting inspired by alotta money for this years
@trevorjonesart
#castleparty
.
it will be part of the auction that’s being organized by
@makersplace
this will be available and there will also be a nft version.
i just realized that people may not have realized that my physical work is oil paintings. they aren’t digital print outs or anything. all oil painting.
my dad died in 2020 and it crushed me. that impact led me to have a 1/1 nifty gateway drop of a photo of dads dead body. the drop mostly confused the nft community.
@DeadDadCoin
is the evolution of that. this community is the one that finally gets it .
since then a huge amount of my art has been dedicated to the effects of losing him. i did an entire series of huge paintings titled “requiem for my father”. here is one example.
i’m an artist. meaning i paint and make sculptures. but i’ve also been in the nft space since 2020. i had my genesis on
@niftygateway
in july of 2020 and dad was standing next to me on the day of that drop.
last i just want to say that dad would have found this all hilarious.
we are all in this together. let’s make something that’s alive.
for dad. (who is dead)
his dying really shocked my life. it took me years to recover and maybe i still haven’t fully. my wife tells me i cried in my sleep for months after he died. i would wake up and my face and pillow were wet. i love my dad but it surprised me how hard it hit me.
Nifty Gateway artist
@nfnkalyan
is having a gallery show with the prestigious IV Gallery in LA on August 8th
It will be a VIRTUAL show (all online) selling Kalyan's incredible PHYSICAL artwork
Congratulations
@nfnkalyan
🔥🔥🔥