Lessons From A 14-year Journey Building An Art-Driven Character - With Boxhead #15

In this episode, we speak to Boxhead. 

Born in Spain, Boxhead is a multicultural artist and fashion designer, whose creative vision is inspired by urbanism, architecture, and society's emotional responses to established norms.

Her artistic journey began in Amsterdam, where she discovered her passion for street art and its potential to effect social change.

The moniker "Boxhead" not only represents her artistic identity but also symbolizes the inner world we all inhabit. The character she portrays in all of her works is a girl with her head enclosed within a box, representing our fears, dreams, and aspirations.


In this episode, we discuss

• Managing an online presence as an artist
• Different ways of discovering your community: education, warehouse-living, online
• Creating Boxhead, working with her as a character for 14 years
• Boxhead’s career journey, from photography retouching to being collected and painting a mural for the Guggenheim family.
• A negative experience with an art collector's agent shook her confidence in the traditional art world. Boxhead took a step back for a while to work on her childhood dream of being a fashion designer.
• The onset of the pandemic and shifting into NFTs, a new start for Boxhead’s art career - her first sale paid the lawyer that helped her recover her paintings from the Guggenheims.
• Joining the Foundation Discord, becoming a mod and spending time connecting with people in the industry alongside learning animation on Blender - she is 100% self-taught
• Boxhead’s first piece: “Breathe in, breathe out” , contemplating what medium to use for NFTs. Purchased by Shantell Martin, another artist who Boxhead is a fan of.
• Returning to murals in future, and the artist Camille Walala
• Street art in different cities
• Challenges in the NFT space for artists
  • social media burnout
  • the disparity in incentives between creators and some of the platforms
  • understanding the difference between traders, collectors, artists and the grey areas in between
• Using our experience to guide the way for new entrants to the NFT space
• The importance of focusing on your work and keeping out the noise
• Boxhead’s desire to see collectors learn more about art history, the artists' role in doing that
• The historical precedence of the relationship between collector and artist in shaping tastes
• Shoutout to ORB @Orbtastic

Boxhead's Links

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/BoxheadTweets
• Website: https://t.co/tVOPNDbVyL

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