Laya is one of the most exciting digital artists in the NFT space and she is only 15. Finding the interaction section between art technology exhilarating due to the expression of infinity and freedom, she creates mesmeric generative works. Her work has been exhibited in the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, ARS Electronica and has been featured in Fortune, VOGUE , Vice.
It was during the lockdown, I was in eighth grade and all my school was online and I had all this free time after. I wanted to learn an online hobby. I went onto Youtube and chose to learn 3D animation, then I discovered blender and started taking a 3D course online. Over time I then learned about digital art and software. That's when things got really interesting.
With digital art you have an incredible freedom, the opportunity to go back and to erase things, but you can also go forward. You have more flexibility in digital art than physical art. The tool is not constrained, whereas in physical mediums you have to be constrained with pain, this was not the case in the digital. I started enjoying digital art more. While researching digital art, that is when I started finding out about NFTs.
NFTS are my biggest influence. If NFTs were not there I don’t know if I would have made art into a career. The whole community and collectors made a huge influence on me and my work. The way I put things to the world with NFTs changes with time. When I put an artwork out there I think about collecting, who would be the audience.
I find it exciting, it is a 3D social media, a place where you can connect with people where you have a 3D visualization of a person. A virtual world where we can live with our own unique internet identity. One thing I like about the metaverse the most is that you can represent yourself in a different way. If you are a woman of color you can change your identity. Even being an animal nobody would care. I like that freedom.
I would be an animal that would be aesthetically good!
It is with Art Blocks. I am working on a reinforcement based generative art, half way through working on the art a little bit. If you move it with your mouse it is also 3D and it is also a generative work so it uses mission learning, reinforcement learning. A new hybrid version of multiple aspects of generative art together.
