I first discovered NFTs and CryptoArt back in 2018 while I was a stay at home dad. These were the days before our little boy could crawl, walk or talk and he mostly just slept. These were the days when I actually had free time.

Back then I was a big user of Cent, an early Web3 social media platform. Some of todays biggest names in CryptoArt were honing their craft and experimenting on Cent at the same time.

While I failed to see just what the future would hold for NFTs or the full potential, they did have instant appeal to me. I grew up drawing and designing stuff, I collected trading cards as a kid, studied visual arts after I left school, built websites for people and then went on to study design at uni. CryptoArt and NFTs were a natural progression of art, design, tech and collectables, it just made sense to me and I wanted to be part it.

Generally, lessons in crypto are always learned the hard way!

Most of the platforms we know today didn’t exist back then and most of what was around didn’t survive crypto winter of 2018/19. The NFTs I did collect were tied to platform wallets that I didn’t backup or transfer into my own custody. Generally, lessons in crypto are always learned the hard way!

Finally I decided it was my turn and I started thinking about what my first NFT would be. I’d been working on an idea for a minimalist poster design and decided that would form the basis of my first CryptoArt piece.

Long story short, my little boy started crawling and exploring every possible corner of the house and I’d bit off more than I could chew for an art project with the time I had available to me. It was time to be a parent. I stayed in crypto but went down the DeFi rabbit hole instead. Chasing yield is much easier than editing video when you’re camped out on the lounge floor making animal noises! I never gave up on making CryptoArt and the idea kept burning in my mind.

Fast forward 3-4 years and the CryptoArt and NFT market is huge, but, I finally had some time to pursue my idea.

Partial Recall represents a memory, an amazing time in my past and a stunning location in Aotearoa that I can now only piece together with fragments of truth.

Is it everything I imagined it could be? No. Do I love it? YES!

It’s a mixed media piece that incorporates photography, video, animation and was made in Photoshop and Davinci Resolve. The Kea and clouds that fly through are my first attempt at animation.

An edition of 5 available on OpenSea