SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2022
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The question surrounding Minta will always revolve around who is she; but it’s the wrong question. The better question: does it matter?
Minta is a persona created specifically for the web3 art scene. The persona is an artist with a human behind the artist that helps create the art but Minta is unequivocally the one creating. Does that make sense?
If that wasn’t enough Minta’s art is very meta revolving around tweets about web3 art, features on NFT marketplaces and lists of transactions that occur from various wallets. One piece in particular is used to answer the question of who Minta is.
As with everything meta keeping track of the point or the statement in something self-referential is a task itself. It takes a special creative mind to keep the thread alive or the focus is lost and becomes trite.
Blockchain disciples will point to transparency and how everything, good and bad, is tracked. Blockhain tech is documenting our history as we are living it. Transaction hashes are a little dry for most of us to be excited about but to Minta those are pieces of art.
What Minta is doing is visually capturing that history by painting transactions and tweets she feels important, then minting them as NFTs, on blockchain tech. Are you starting to get it?
With limited personal aspects from Minta the art is allowed to just exist as if it were a naturally occurring event part of the blockchain ecosystem. Minta has essentially removed the artist from the creation process. The art specifically speaks for itself and there is no overshadowing of the artist's persona. Her anonymity is part of the art in a digital world where anonymity is a foundational principle.
A painting of Queen Elizabeth with crown era ring bikini in the swimming pool in Minta Style.
Portrait of Mikey Wilson
Objkt.com gems 11 august
Objkt.com cover 7 august
Portrait of @introvoid
Portrait of Cryptogoblin
So an anonymous artist that only exists in web3, is minting moments from web3, by using web3 technology, highlighting core principles like anonymity and transparency: art about art on the blockchain. However, there’s something to be said about the human touch to her work.
The hand drawn/painted nature of her work reminds us that while we become more and more digitized in our personas it is vital to remember that there are still humans behind these anonymous wallet addresses.
Many of us will never know anything about Minta beyond the art that she shares. Those of us who have had a chance to speak with the woman behind Minta, have been treated to a clever, funny and insightful person who is beginning to carve out her own space in web3 history while taking no personal credit to her actual name.
All for the sake of art.
UNDRGRND
