I: I entered the NFT space in 2022. That was when I began creating more on the computer and immersing myself deeper into digital practice, although I only started feeling truly confident about two years ago. My first experiments, however, began back in 2018 in Photoshop.

I: Between 2019 and 2020 I went through a period of experimentation: I tried different mediums, created objects, worked with graphics. But over time I began to feel that I was spreading myself too thin, and I wanted to focus on one thing. In the end, I chose painting. Working with painting in a digital format felt new and fresh to me. I think digital media became, in some sense, a logical extension of my practice. It allowed me to continue painterly investigations, but through different tools and possibilities — and through that, to search for new solutions.

Later on, during the process itself, I began thinking that as an artist I was interested in showing what figurative painting created on a computer could look like. For me, it became a kind of research: can a digital environment preserve the sensation of painting, and how does the language of the image change in the process? I started perceiving the computer not simply as a technical instrument, but as another medium in which painting can exist
and evolve.

I think only recently I began to understand what it means to “think through the screen.” Before, I tried to hide the “imperfections” in my images — low resolution or other digital artifacts. It felt unprofessional to me.

Now I understand that all of this can actually be part of the condition of the digital environment — and that this is precisely the point. For me, these are completely new levels of perceiving digital art.

I: Yes, I come from a painting background, so my approach to digital media grew largely out of that experience. Digital painting is much more flexible. You can return to previous stages, test different solutions, change composition, color, or form without the risk of ruining the work.
In traditional painting, many decisions feel more final, while in the digital environment the process remains more open.

I’m self-taught and never attended art school, and that was often something I struggled with, since at times I lacked certain technical knowledge or skills. The digital environment gives me the possibility to be more versatile.