#ask asty

thank you! honestly trying to pool together all my influences at this point in my life is kind of a gargantuan task, but I will try to name at least a few lol some of my earliest influences come from various surrealist painters I was exposed to at a relatively young age, primarily Salvador Dalí, Remedios Varo, H.R.Giger, Robert Steven Connett and Zdzisław Beksiński

As for more current influences, I take a lot of inspiration from many of my contemporaries and peers, which are honestly, too many to name, but some of the most instrumental for my current conception of aesthetics have been Illustrators like Medusawolf, Adam Burke, Brandon Geurts

Aside of painters, I also take a lot of influence from different art mediums that I consume, particularly film (mostly horror, sci-fi, and dark fantasy) and music (mostly extreme and experimental music), in fact, if you dig deep enough you might find most of my painting's names are references to, or directly lifted from song titles :P Another major aspect in my influences and themes is my personal fascination with the natural world, particularly with the world of arthropods

I'm already extremely squishy and I would very much like to get rid of that lol

So I'm going with too many limbs

Embrace the Scutigera life

Mainly because my art's goal is not, and has never been to scare or unsettle in any intentional form, I'm very well aware that my darker themes and aesthetics will often land it in the same conversation as horror art, but my work is one that I actively try to keep focused on very specific approaches that don't quite match horror

My creatures, for example, are almost never depicted in scenes or situations where they are threatening, or implied to want to cause harm in any form, on the contrary, my monsters are often the victims of harm, often caused by their very own nature, and one that they can only stand to contemplate and try to survive through, almost in less of a struggle and more as a form of radical acceptance of an inescapable condition.

I have been trying to contact you for a while now , I have got clients who are willing to buy your art as nfts

With the rate am looking at your work it would cost $5k a pic please contact me asap