Serwah Attafuah is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based on Dharug land, Western Sydney, Australia. She creates surreal cyber dreamscapes and heavenly wastelands, populated by afro-futuristic abstractions of self with strong ancestral themes.

As a painter, musician, and digital artist Serwah has approached crypto art with the same fire that imbues all her work. She’s drawn to create one-of-a-kind pieces that cannot be replicated in traditional formats. They are works that can be interacted with on a personal level, while maintaining the human element of art itself.

In RAINROOM 2022, Serwah expresses a sense of separation, being apart, of a feeling she shares with the technology underpinning her art. She uses RAINROOM to imagine crypto art as a way to bring people together and as a mechanism for exploring the isolation and disconnection that accompanies our digital lives. With its subject on the inside looking out, separated from her audience and viewers with a glass barrier, the piece shows us an image both beautiful and frightening as we begin to explore a world where our digital selves can be immortalized in a physical form.

‍RAINROOM's glassy, transparent barrier could be compared to the screens that we all use to look at the world. They are both a way of looking and a way of not-seeing, a means of connection and separation. She grapples with the way we perceive and receive content and how we might be able to use technology to create a more intimate and human connection with the art we consume.

‍Your work is instantly recognisable for your characters. Are they hyper real versions of yourself? 
‍Definitely, they’re all personas that I have. It's about trying to tell my story inside of a digital realm. I'm an anxious person, and I think deep down I do want to be this weird, kinda anime, fantastically strong female. I live vicariously through my work! Hopefully one day I get there.

‍‍What has working in NFT’s done for you as an artist? 
‍It's completely changed the way I make art and on a personal level, it's changed my whole life. Before NFTs I was just doing commissions and maybe once or twice a year making art that was me, not for someone else. As a digital artist people don't wanna put your stuff on a gallery wall. So it’s given a whole new pathway for artists like myself.‍

‍It’s still early for most people in this space. Where do you see it all going?
‍I think it's gonna go far. We’re only at the early stages of whatever this can be. Coming from a music background I’m hoping musicians can utilise this too. If that’s minting their tracks or somehow involving their community, their labels, their team in some sort of DAO. I'd love to see blockchain in music, I think they're very disadvantaged in the current system.‍

‍Do you have plans to do music NFTs? 
‍I'd love to drop the first black metal album on blockchain. That'd be hectic. I can only dream! Most of my artwork is in some way related to my music. My artwork's very happy, my music's very dark. I like to make things on a spectrum.

‍‍Any advice for emerging artists?
‍Be yourself and create the art that you love. There is somebody out there that wants what you’re offering. You just gotta find them, and it might take time, but there's no point in being fake. This blockchain lasts forever, got to keep it real.

‍Serwah embodies the opportunity for digital art to bridge the gap between our virtual and physical worlds. For technology that creates deeper connections, not less.

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