UNDRGRND DIGS 055
DECEMBER 19TH, 2022
5 Artists From the UNDRGRND Collection
UNDRGRND DIGS is a periodical feature showcasing artists that the UNDRGRND curators dig. We sift through the social media and NFT platforms to find the best artists waiting to be discovered. UNDRGRND believes in the artists we feature and we will purchase NFTs from each artist featured.
These pop-art gifs from Meityform are alive with color, characters, and ideas. Bold outlines of intricate mazes create a backdrop of the focal point of each piece while also playing a role in the message. Each work of Meityform appears to combine the use of an AI program but is edited and combined in such a way that the imperfections are just as important to each composition. Less than one-month minting Meityform is just beginning what will be an exciting and beautiful journey.
Artserge has a wide-ranging style. It’s hard to nail down what that style is or which one is his predominant style. Perhaps the easiest way to categorize his work is by looking at whom he works with. We “discovered” Artserge due to his collab with the legendary Ralph Steadman. Famous for his unsettling drawings and paintings in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ralph Steadman chose Artserge to be one of the select few to collab with. The partnership in Caterpillar’s Dream is a perfect match. Perhaps that is the best compliment to give to, and way to describe, Artserge’s work.
Not all art has to depict the melodramatic or the painful. Good art is honest. Ainita’s work is an honest depiction of a family and their happy moments. Moments together that none will remember due to sleeping. A family dancing in the rain or farming together or the children putting on a puppet show/ These moments are happy and true. Any parent would be jealous of these parents who have the energy to give to their kids in this way. And while some may not have this to give every day all would agree this is the joy they would feel if they could.
The soft palette and markings of Blue-mbk are in stark contrast to the subject matter in some of their work. In That’s how. we see the simplest way wars are started, or how we so easily destroy and devalue each other. It could be a simple response to a complex rhetorical question like “How did we become this?” Blue-mbk has a way of expressing feelings of isolation during covid with such short clips which makes the impact all the more powerful on repeat.
These outcast characters in Poptone Cyber’s work all seem perfectly content with the lives they have chosen or been forced into. The motif of introversion permeates throughout. In Hermit, an individual happily finds themselves smoking and listening to music. What tends to drive us towards isolation is fear and while some may see isolation as a curse Poptone celebrates it as a blessing in Blessed by Fear. The biggest indicator that being alone is something that Poptone feels should be celebrated comes from Intrusive, where the world assaults an individual with news from the outside.
