NFT

The 1:1 NFTs that I make are art that is purchased with cryptocurrency on a blockchain. I make and mint art for several blockchains: Eth and Tezos. Right now I’m primarily working in AI (machine learning) art currently, I have a strong base in classical art training. I also use digital 3-D techniques with mixed media. I see great potential for the metaverse, so I also display my artwork in metaverse galleries; those that I create myself as well as those that invite me to exhibit.

a.i. art in photography style. A woman with fairy crystal spikes coming from her hair holds a vase of water and plants.

‘Water Outtakes: Faelynn‘, on Rodeo.Club

September 2024: SUBJECTIVE Art Festival, NYC

My multimedia piece “Make Way for the Bliss” is curated in to a three-day art festival in Lume Studios, an experiential studio space in TriBeCa. I had the poem published in an anthology in 1999, and now that AI tools are readily available, I’ve turned my poem into a storytelling experience by narrating it myself, and adding AI music, images, and animation. Open captions are burned in, and I’ve minted this as an edition of 10 NFTs on the Tezos blockchain.

screenshot of the last scene of an AI video. A girl holds a heart shape in her hands, in front of her heart.

Story Inscription

These NFTs are special because they are minted on a Transient Labs contract with a feature called “story inscription” enabled. If the NFT is in an exhibition, the artist or the owner can inscribe that information into the metadata of the NFT. If a collector would like to leave a note to the blockchain about why they collected, story inscriptions will allow this, too. There is a transaction fee to inscribe a story to the NFT.

A.I. artwork - portrait of a latinx woman with floral headdress looking at a vessel of water

Woman, Vessel

A.I. artwork of a woman in red robe by a wall covered in red patterned fabrics

Patchwork Splendor

a.i. art of a partially concealed face covered with floral wallpaper. the feeling of being a wallflower, actually.
Petals Conceal (sold)
a.i. art of a latino couple on their living room couch. Like they are meeting you for tea. flowers everywhere; on her dress, headdress, wallpaper, and the art on the wall.
You Know Us
portraits of two asian women in contemporary art style; their clothes are gossamer netting. They look upset.
Remembrance

Light Beings Available on Objkt

Born of work I did to submit to about three different calls to art in late 2023, I’ve created this collection called Light Beings. They are available to mint on the Tezos blockchain.

  • Light being woman with plants and refracted light on her face.
  • a male angel in a pink outfit and star sparkling lights halo
  • light being dressed in pink with sparkling lights
  • A faery in a pink dress with marbelized skin and quartz crown
  • two transparent angels roaming the hillside
  • Two transparent angels shake hands on the mountainside
  • light being collage of a boy at dusk in the mountains
  • A Black angel in pink outfit and sparkling lights
  • collage of a woman with sparkling lights and plants
  • male figure skater mid-performance with glittering stars in theatrical stage setting

Neal Gallery Curated Works

Patchwork Splendor

Patchwork Splendor was curated into a group exhibition called “Red” by TheHug.xyz, and Neal Digital Gallery, for display in The Joy City, Beijing, China. It was selected from a pool of approximately 600 submissions for 40 exhibition spots.

I crafted this digital artwork especially for the call to art: “In China, red is an auspicious color that is associated with celebration, luck, and prosperity. All artworks should use this color as the primary color palette for consideration in this Open Call.”

Midjourney A.I. with post-processing in Photoshop.

Location: Xidan Joy City, Beijing, China

Exhibition dates: From December 8, 2023 to January 7, 2024.

Exposures: Over 2 million each month

Mint Patchwork Splendor
Asian man embraces an infant, with floral cutout and spring green colors.

Peaceful Heartspace

Peaceful Heartspace was curated into a group exhibition called “Gratefulness for Humanity” by Blac.ai, curator, and Neal Digital Gallery, for display in The Joy City, Beijing, China. It was selected from a pool of approximately 107 submissions for 20 exhibition spots.

I crafted this digital artwork especially for the call to art. Midjourney A.I. with post-processing in Photoshop.

Location: Xidan Joy City, Beijing, China

Exhibition dates: From November 1 – 15, 2023, with daily showings from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Exposures: Over 2 million each month

Mint Peaceful Heartspace

Surreal Continuum

I created this series in response to a call to art about surrealism inspired by Dali. I chose to envision the 2014 documentary, “Dali’s Greatest Secret” which tells the story of his painting ‘The Vision of Hell.’ Three schoolgirls were witness to a vision from Mary wherein they were shown what hell is like, and they were instructed to go and tell their families, who then tried to silence the girls. Dali was commissioned by a Catholic group to paint those girls’ vision of hell. Dali had remarked that he would use escargot forks in his painting because a sinner’s soul curls up in the shell like the snail, so the soul can only be retracted with an escargot fork. He finished over a year too late, and since the need for it had disappeared, the painting was hidden under a nun’s bed for about three decades. See this collection at MakersPlace.

  • a.i. digital painting of a group of red-cloaked figures with staffs searching in a marsh.
  • a.i. digital painting of two cloaked figures with staffs looking at a surrealist church with many minarets. Two children approach the church as globes with eyeballs survey the scene.
  • a.i. digital painting of a cloaked figure with an impaled insect or snail. Half the landscape is brown and half is red.
  • a.i. digital painting of a cloaked figure with a spear and a staff in the ground overlooks the full moon.
  • a.i. digital painting of a desert landscape and two cloaked figures, connected by a thread of the cloaks.
  • a.i. digital painting of five segments of the full moon in various states. Three cloaked figures in the last three segments.
  • a.i. digital painting of a brown landscape and extremely surreal stretched out figures in conversation. There are globes and the full moon and symbology.

Hear Me Roar

My signature of the Sign of the Smile comes from this collection of woodblock-inspired AI artwork. The Home Page has links to my artworks for sale on different web3 platforms. Hear Me Roar is available on OBJKT, on the Tezos blockchain.

AI Illustration of a woman and tiger bearing its claw with a snarl
ai artwork in woodblock style, of woman and tiger and the ocean wave in the background
ai artwork in woodblock style, of a woman and leopard

The whole collection called “Hear Me Roar”. I intended to convey illustrations of women and their spirit animal guardians.

Retrocausality Work

‘Retrocausality Work’ is my set of four images intended for a dynamic NFT wherein the images change daily. I plan to use a time-based template that Transient is still finishing. The concept behind my dynamic work is that it will be a conversation starter for any professional in the healing arts. If displayed in a dedicated monitor, the image will update daily, telling its narrative throughout the week, which will allow natural dialog between different clients and practitioner. Methods: Acrylic Painting, 3-D scene building, pattern design in Illustrator, AI techniques, post-processing in Photoshop.

set of four images; two 3d rendered rooms and two a.i. portraits

Dance Stills: the Art of Dance

I made an A.I. collection all about contemporary dance in Jan. 2023. I performed ballet and modern dance when I was younger; I have had about 15 years of dance lessons. I find it very intriguing to see how Midjourney/A.I. can display motion blur in an appropriate or an exaggerated manner. I love the simulation of motion it creates by adding ghosted or long exposure legs and arms, or stretching the ears. I found I liked the contemporary dance images much better than the classical ballet images I tried to prompt.

  • A.I. artwork of two contemporary dancers in sync during a performance and their costumes are a blur of motion trails all around them.
  • A.I. artwork of two ballet folklorico dancers in giant twirly skirts that twirl so bit they go over their heads. motion blur on the skirt.
  • A.I. artwork of two contemporary dancers in performance onstage, with their arms and legs in motion blur.
  • A.I. art of two female dancers in motion with rainbow dresses in extreme motion blur
  • A.I. artwork of two ballet folklorico dancers in fantastical neon light up dresses with timelapse effect.
  • A.I. art of five riverdance style dancers in green minidresses. In motion, extreme spotlight, hair showing they are jumping.
  • A.I. artwork of a costumed female dancer in a studio warehouse. Her face is half painted green and she strikes a pose.
  • a.i. art of dancers in traditional central american costume and in motion
  • A.I. artwork of a male dancer in studio rehearsal space. he looks like Merce Cunningham
  • A.I. art of a ballerina with her back towards us as she takes a bow in the spotlight to the dark auditorium in front of her.

Exhibition

June 30, 2024 – Love is a Steadfast Partner on display (on the end cap; the wolves) at Niza Knoll Gallery in Denver, CO for the show ‘A.I. Love You.’

June 30, 2024 – Love is Complicated on display at Niza Knoll Gallery in Denver, CO for the show ‘A.I. Love You.’ SOLD July 24, 2024. Print only; not an NFT.

December 15, 2023 – Patchwork Splendor on digital display in a mall in Joy City, Beijing.

exhibition photo of peaceful heartspace on digital display in a wall sized mall setting.

November 2, 2023 – Peaceful Heartspace NFT on digital display in a mall in Joy City, Beijing.

An observer looks at a.i. artwork displayed on a large screen in a dimly lit room. It's an image of a carnival dancer

It’s exciting to see my own work on display in different venues. I created this NFT in response to a call to art with a theme of the Caribbean in 2100. So I wondered, despite climate change issues, won’t the Caribbean people continue the Carnivale tradition? What might Carnivale look like in the future? Mint Beyond the Blue on Foundation

The Hug curated me into a web3/blockchain conference ‘Ibiza NXT’ in Spain, September 2023. This is my piece “Beauty Beyond: Crystalline” on digital display at the conference.

Jessica by her artwork displayed in a tablet on a wall.

My first NFT AND my first NFT exhibition in the Spork Castle of the ETHDenver conference in Feb. 2022. (Purchase Wilson Zoom Room available on request. “This is Fine” and “Googly Wilsons“)

POAP: Proof of Attendance Protocol

I began my journey into NFTs in 2021 by learning how to create a POAP, which is an attendance token; like bookmarks for your life. I created these two POAPs for the artists who minted their work during our collective’s first and second group drop. If claimed, they show up in the POAP app on your device. See poap . xyz to learn more.

I can create a beautiful POAP for your event. Although they look tiny, I’ll probably end up designing for two to three hours. Flat fee of $100 for a static design with up to 3 hours of design time. Email yolantis@yolantisart.com.

For the Neural Nomads design, I conceptualized using Midjourney, chose my look and feel from a large set of drafts I created, then used Illustrator to make vector art, which is re-colorable and re-scalable.

Poap that says You've met Yolantis Feb/Mar 2023 at ETH Denver '23. My dancer art in the center.
POAP in the look and feel of the Eyeo Festival, demonstration you have attended the showcase for how to make a poap by Yolantis