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I honestly don't have much to say about this guy. I'd never seen him before and I didn't wait on him; he sat alone at the bar. His aura was somber and he didn't say much. I remember wondering why he might look as deeply sad as he did. He drank a Peroni and ate veal scallopini. 

This series began as ordinary compulsive doodling of some of the faces I came across at my restaurant job. It has now become a full collection - some of these people I know quite well, some not at all. I like to think that I'm connected to each one of them in a way and I hope the collection touches someone.

*Physical piece in acrylic case will be claimable by NFT holders in Spring 2023*

Guest Check no. 16619

Falling down is ok, but never refuse to get up

GET UP

Gift of Day

This is Giorgio. He is a wine expert with a magnetic personality, a booming laugh, and can sell you a $155 steak with his eyes closed. His favorite expression is "vaffanculo" - it even says it on his car's license plate. 

This series began as ordinary compulsive doodling of some of the faces I came across at my restaurant job. It has now become a full collection - some of these people I know quite well, some not at all. I like to think that I'm connected to each one of them in a way and I hope the collection touches someone.

*Physical piece in acrylic case will be claimable by NFT holders in Spring 2023*

Guest Check no. 16552

Infinity and Beyond

Inspired by loyalty, warmth and kindness observed between people who know each other from childhood days, college, or work spaces reuniting at an NYE party. There is a play between the energy of this party and the peaceful silence a couple shares at a distance from it.  All characters with various intentions and states of emotion unite in a positive sense of being, and so, share the warmth in their hearts during a cold winter.



Warmth in Winter

A musical surreal journey through an amazing virtual space with evolving visuals.

Although I have played with stable diffusion for months, I just recently started learning the deforum technology. I am intrigued by all the things it can do to make animation. I have a long way to go, but enjoy creating with it and I will keep tinkering with my code and the settings for different and unique outcomes with each artwork I create.

Vacation

Women can often be underestimated for their intelligence, cunning, strength and determination. 

They are told not to pursue their dreams and ambitions because they are too far fetched or too difficult because of the amount of work needed to accomplish them. 

Being told we can't do something can often make a person think that what we're told must be true, especially by our loved ones and family, but there are some of us that know better. 

We blaze our own path, we set our sights much higher, and we rise above those that underestimated our potential. 

I was told I couldn't be an artist because I wouldn't be able to support myself by doing so. 

And yet, I'm here. Creating and pushing myself each day, to prove to myself that those that said so, were wrong. 

Embrace your softness, your determination, your relentlessness to pursue your truth. Living another's dreams for you will only stifle your own.


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Created by Alanna Wilcox using AI and a sense of emboldened determination 
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Rochester, New York, 2023
@spinnybuns on Instagram & Twitter
alannawilcox.com

The underestimated

Let's celebrate the power of positive emotions! This image invites you to feel the enthusiasm of creative energy. Together, let's foam it, shine it, and increase it! 

Euphoria

beauty cycle

I've had the pleasure of working with so many properties in "A Galaxy far away"... Big, explosive work. Larger than life villains, epic space battles... that I wanted to create something different with this, and show an intimate moment between two heroes of contemporary culture. There's no shiny CG in it's creation, no thousand layer digital file. Just raw, messy, delicious oil painted on canvas with a loving hand,  that has also been brought into the Meta World in the form of this eternal NFT. Accompanied by the contribution of multi-Grammy and Tony nominated Frank Wildhorn's glorious new "Voice of the Danube" suite performed by the world renown Vienna Symphony. Hopefully, the best of both worlds. or rather... Galaxies. 

NOTE: Winning bid will also receive the hand painted original oil in frame.

"Hope of the Galaxy"

From a single point, a fluctuation can happen and start everything you will ever know.

Where all begun

Queuing for sloppy numbers is the first in the series of portraits exploring macabre, textural undertones juxtaposed against bright, colourful backgrounds and graphical elements. All of these neatly compiled within a portrait. The portrait acts as a vessel for my experimentation, allowing the viewer to focus on what they want to see. 

The title is purposefully vague and unrelated to the work itself for this very reason - allowing you the viewer to interpret the piece how you choose without any direction from me, the artist. My focus is on the process of creation as opposed to the final piece. This allows the work to move and evolve organically.

Queuing for sloppy numbers

Queuing for sloppy burgers is the second in the series of portraits exploring macabre, textural undertones juxtaposed against bright, colourful backgrounds and graphical elements. All of these neatly compiled within a portrait. The portrait acts as a vessel for my experimentation, allowing the viewer to focus on what they want to see. 

The title is purposefully vague and unrelated to the work itself for this very reason - allowing you the viewer to interpret the piece how you choose without any direction from me, the artist. My focus is on the process of creation as opposed to the final piece. This allows the work to move and evolve organically.

Queuing for sloppy burgers

Queuing for sloppy 7 irons is the third in the series of portraits exploring macabre, textural undertones juxtaposed against bright, colourful backgrounds and graphical elements. All of these neatly compiled within a portrait. The portrait acts as a vessel for my experimentation, allowing the viewer to focus on what they want to see. 

The title is purposefully vague and unrelated to the work itself for this very reason - allowing you the viewer to interpret the piece how you choose without any direction from me, the artist. My focus is on the process of creation as opposed to the final piece. This allows the work to move and evolve organically.

Queuing for sloppy 7 irons

The Passage of Ra

1/1 photograph by Joshua K. Jackson. Image made at blue hour in London's West End.

Location: London, UK
Date: 13th November 2019