“You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.” – Sappho Sappho was a great lyrical poet & musician who lived on the Island of Lesbos in the early seventh century.
Sappho is an icon for many LGBTQ+ people as she was famous for her relationships with other women. In ancient Greece, it was more acceptable to have same-gender relationships than in contemporary times.
The island where she spent most of her life spurned the word lesbian. Her name inspired the word Sapphic. A word used to describe things regarding the love between two women. This animation is loosely based on the painting of Sappho (1877) by Charles Mengin.
This sculpture depicts Sappho with her poetry book and her Lyre. Her poetry is all-encompassing, wrapped around her body, indelibly printed onto her skin. It illustrates the moment of contemplation before she leaped to her death from the Leucadian clifftops.
The sculpture was created in Masterpiece VR, then taken into Nomad Sculpt on iPad for further detailing. The textures are hand-painted in Procreate and combined with a collage of artworks and poetry written by Sappho – taken from public domain sources (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho) Lighting and looping animation created with Cinema 4D. Post-production added in After Effects. High Quality 2K Ultra HD video.
Inspired by the painting “Mammon” by G. F. Watts . In 1880 he wrote, ‘Material prosperity has become our real god, but we are surprised to find that the worship of this visible deity does not make us happy.’ The original painting had the following subtitle; “Dedicated to his Worshippers” Watts apparently had plans to create a sculpture in London’s Hyde Park. He sadly never got to make this sculpture – so this digital bronze sculpture is in honour of him. Mammon is a brutish character who represents greed, and the spectre of filthy lucre. Surrounded by symbols of opulent wealth, he treads upon two crushed characters. These represent innocence and beauty – often hidden or bastardised by the drive to attain wealth. This model is also AR ready so can be easily placed into an AR scene.
This very first monograph, carefully curated by Crypto Art Curator Fanny Lakoubay, is a window into Angie Taylor’s Creative World, where her work juxtaposes a DIY, Punk ethic, and fresh immediacy of Naive Art, with the complexity of 3D digital technology. Angie Taylor’s work champions the misfits in society.
Artist, sculptor and animator, Angie Taylor is the first Crypto Artist featured on CryptoArt Monograph.
Her experimental and exploratory approach is applied forcefully in digital practice, within which she finds her Nirvana of creativity into the world of Crypto Art.
Artist, sculptor & animator, Angie Taylor originally studied sculpture in early 80s. She became an animator, illustrator & Adobe demo artist in the 90’s, before ditching it all to follow her art. She creates immersive VR and AR projects, digital sculpture, illustration & animation.
Her current creative process begins in VR where she models 3D characters and scenes. These are hand-painted and textured on iPad before being rendered in desktop 3D software.
Her work explores themes of identity, isolation and otherness – often championing life’s misfits and highlighting the struggles faced by them. Her highly-distinctive style is hard to pin down but has been described by some as Punk-Expressionism – a unique mix of punk art, naive art, pop art and expressionistic aesthetics and themes. She also explores her own challenges with neurodiversity.
Angie has been a punk since 1976 & digital artist since 1987.
Fanny Lakoubay is a Buenos Aires-based digital art advisor and curator with 14 years of experience in art, technology and finance.
With her team at LAL ART Advisory, she supports institutional, corporate, and private clients, who want to enter or better navigate the NFT space.
She is also involved in many NFT community projects, such as The Blockchain Art Directory (BAD 2.0), We Are Museums, GreenNFT and more. Prior to this, She tooks part in some of the pioneering NFT projects (MoCDA, New Art Academy, CADAF, Editional App, Snark.art) and worked with larger organizations (RadicalxChange Foundation, Christie’s Auction House, Artnet, Societe Generale Bank).
She holds an MBA from HEC Paris business school and a BA in Art History.
Contents
Inside this incredible book, you’re going to find:
EDITORIAL BY ANDREA CONCAS – PUBLISHER OF THE NFT MAGAZINE
FULL BIOGRAPHY ON THE COVER ARTIST ANGIE TAYLOR
INTERVIEW WITH ANGIE TAYLOR BY ALESSIA CUCCU – EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE NFT MAGAZINE
CURATORIAL TEXT ON ANGIE TAYLOR AND HER RESEARCH BY FANNY LAKOUBAY, GUEST CRYPTO ART CURATOR
IMAGE CATALOG OF THE ARTIST’S ARTWORK CREATED ON ALL PLATFORMS, FOR THE FIRST TIME ENCLOSED IN A SINGLE COLLECTIBLE PUBLICATION, WITH A QR CODE TO VIEW THEM RIGHT AWAY FROM YOUR SMARTPHONE
Black and Orange Stray Cat, Sittin’ on a fence, Can’t get enough dough to pay the rent, I’m flat broke but I just don’t care, I strut right by with my tail in the air.
