Welcome back to our 9th edition of the 2022 weekly top 10!
As usual, we are glad to have you all onboard with us. Our community has been expanding ever since we started, and we wanted to thank every single one of you who joined the NFT Community and followed us to Substack.
For our new members, the Weekly Top 10 is a way to showcase some of the best art we’ve seen and help artists gain visibility in the eyes of the community.
The Weekly Top 10 is curated by @KateMacDonald, an exceptional artist and writer who is deeply involved in the community.
10. “The Grumpy Fish”, by @moxstudios
“Behold the boring life of a goldfish.”
Not at all boring, The Grumpy Fish by @moxstudios may be a little grumpy looking but that makes him even more lovable in my books - and even better than a live goldfish, there’s no bowl to clean! Click through to the video to enjoy his bobbing presence and the soothing sounds of the aquarium bubbling in the background. The reflections in the glass make this animation all the more lifelike.
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9. “Surprised by AI #48”, by @HODLFrance
Surprised by AI #48 by @HODLFrance is a fantastical landscape created in AI and manipulated digitally by the artist. Its sky captures an entire day in earth time, with the sun, moon, and aurora borealis playing against the snow and mountains in a moody mauve palette.
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8. “PRINCE ARRIVAL”, by @KeepChoosingNFT
The video PRINCE ARRIVAL by @KeepChoosingNFT is a joyous parade of waving banners, clouds, and musicians heralding the prince arriving on his platform. Rolling against a background of eternal sunshine and swaying palms, one can almost hear the trumpeting horns and clopping hooves. This simple animation has a batik quality about it as if its characters were created from a white wax resist and soft blue fabric.
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7. “Aurorian Dance | 6K Art |”, by @mythicalveritas
Aurorian Dance | 6K Art | by @mythicalveritas is an inspiring photograph, sure to lift spirits - at least momentarily - above more human concerns. The Northern Lights dance across a moonlit mountain, its red peaks barely capped with snow while a shooting star blazes its way through the heavens.
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6. “Forbidden #8-Through the Darkness”, by @AliStarPhoto
Forbidden #8 - Through the Darkness by @AliStarPhoto captures a tree in a dark and mysterious woodland, the light glancing off a single branch, its leaves as if dabbed on by an Impressionist painter. On depicting this forest in Mazandaran province (northern Iran), the artist writes:
“All the red leaves and the orange trees, could draw the picture of a dreamland in mind. Every time I looked at that blurred scenery, the only sentence which crossed my mind repeatedly, was this one : welcome to forbidden forest.”
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5. “Maa Kali”, by @YImaginaria
Maa Kali by @YImaginaria is a ferocious portrait of the Hindu goddess of death, time, and change. True to her traditional iconography, she is presented with four arms, tongue agape, with a garland of skulls and furious eyes. Poised as if to launch from her kaleidoscopic throne, she is to be revered - and feared. From the artist’s description:
‘ "Maa Kali" being a fiercest form of protecting Mother is invoked to destroy all the evil or demonic forces in any form whether in your mind or in the outer world. She destroys darkness so that we may realize the light.”’
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4. "The Nightmare - III”, by @_dark_ghoul
Yellow dominates "The Nightmare - III" by @_dark_ghoul with similar effect to its use in the horror genre. In “Color in Horror: The Grim Rainbow of American Gothic Fiction,” Chelsea Davis refers to our reaction to it as “the instinctual disgust most of us feel when confronted with the decay … of living things.” It is the colour of greed and moral turpitude and used with graphic impact here. The subject itself - a skeleton strapped to a hydro pole - is reminiscent of Frank Langella’s turn as Dracula in the 1979 movie, conquered and lashed to the mast. Perhaps it is the viewer that receives the lashing here, flicked as we are by the power lines arcing from the skeletal energy vampire.
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3. “HARDCORE LESBIAN HENTAI”, by @wolfofballmeat
HARDCORE LESBIAN HENTAI by @wolfofballmeat is a handmade digital photocollage made from hardcore lesbian hentai. While there is nothing sexually explicit about it, one could possibly make assumptions about all of those pale pink and beige bits. Abstract and expressive in nature, the eye is drawn throughout the colourful composition alighting here and there on its angular shapes and curves, never resting for long.
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2. “Wash away the tears”, by @NFTSecretDoll
Wash away the tears by @NFTSecretDoll utilizes a simple composition to emotive effect. Lit from above, the subject’s eyes well with tears in the rain. The charming tilt of her head and the reflected light in her eyes suggest hope despite being surrounded by darkness. In the artist’s words:
“Some days we need pouring rain, so we can hide the tears we shed! To let it fill your soul, and drown your fears.”
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1. “THAT POWΞR”, by @oak_arrow
In THAT POWER by @oak_arrow a woman in a simple shift dress stands before a beautiful castle of which the main turret stretches above the picture plane and past a dawn bright sky. Around her boulders fly in the air as if summoned by the power of her will. The unique perspective - as if looking up from the ground, lends even more power to the image and focuses the eye toward the subject. In the artist’s words:
“There is a world within - a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty.”
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