This just live.
The
@RollingStone
did a profile piece on me. By the awesome, fellow metalhead
@HissongSamantha
It's been a long journey, but we're here now.
I think it's time to reintroduce myself.
Hi, I'm Seneca and I'm the original character designer behind the Bored Ape Yacht club.
Yes I drew those monkeys you hold with pride.
My entry here was a hard one, but I decided to advocate for this space because of one thing:
Royalties
are the reason why I'm here standing up for NFTs.
Royalties are the reason are why your creatives and builders are here.
And the art brought the world stage here, it breathed life into the space.
Take away royalties, and you may lose us.
You don't want that.
Dear Storytellers.
Perils of Sēsē mint details are set in stone. The rest is yours to write...
👁️ 2880 pieces
👁️ .22 ETH each
👁️ Allowlist Mint Thurs. 11/30 @ 10:00 AM PST
👁️ Public Mint Thurs. 11/30 @ 12:00 PM PST
Mint site → (bookmark this now)
I have so many more stories I can tell. But for now I'll leave it at this.
I don't know how big of a voice I have here and I'm not a vocal character 98% of the time.
But I hope this says something.
I have my art to speak for myself in the future.
i'm over the moon to share that the auctions for 4/5 from my debut collection have concluded a total of 23.7 ETH.
the 5th piece will be available for auction 2022. more details 🔜
thank you again with all my🫀
it's truly been an absolute wild journey this year.
yours,
sen💙
soooo BAYC achieved 24.4 mil at the
@Sothebys
auction. Bonkers. Go Apes.
To celebrate, I would like to share another sneaky image of concept art behind the project (:
Thank you to Yuga, Sothebys, and all the apes 🙈
#BoredApeYachtClub
#BAYC
#NFTartist
My Dearest Storytellers.
Together we will traverse the world of Perils.
Now that our main characters have been introduced, It’s time to announce, my new series minting at the end of the month:
This is your official invitation, my dear participants.
Perils of Sēsē
Invoke, Emerge, Endure, Persist.
I'm so proud to announce my new body of work.
Portraiture by Seneca
@phillipsauction
11.29 - 12.02
Powered by
@moonpay
This has to do with EDUCATION. Championing this ethos of supporting artists means the younger generation will learn to appreciate the creative side.
A side that have been historically disrespected from a business standpoint.
This is a significant part of the web3 story.
Before I can begin to put together my thank yous and credits to the dear brilliant people who worked with me to make Perils a reality:
I would just like to say thank you with all my heart to those who showed up today. And those from the very beginning.
You have this story
AND THEY BECAME NOTHING.
BUT YOU CAN MAKE IT SOMETHING.
It's near the time, Dearest Storytellers.
Will you be a part of this Story?
Premint link below ⤵️
Earlier this year, I worked with the guys at Yuga Labs to create some character design for their NFT project, Bored Ape Yacht Club. It was a blast helping to design the grumpy degenerate monkeys. Here are some concept sketches I did previously
#BoredApeYachtClub
#BAYC
#nftart
what I don't think most of you understand is that promising "utility" is the most superficial, easy-way out way of doing things.
you know what is harder? building reputation and making good work so that you last a lifetime.
you know what's even harder? creating meaning.
Gm. Yesterday Perils sold out in 8 minutes.
You heard it live, I was a emotional mess. Couldn't even make the stage of the space when it went down.
This all wouldn't have been possible with the people I'm about to speak about.
🥀 My team, my partners, my closest confidantes:
It's time for Perils to really begin.
Please join me on Spaces at 11am PST for a little rally before.
I don't know how coherent I'll really be because the nerves are at an ATH.
Love, Senny
👁️
The art vs the artist's little white dog
Shermie ( Grails
@proof_xyz
2022) 🤝 Tofu
Link below is a nice surprise for Shermie owners 🖤🐶 from me to you.
Any of you also have small white pups? Show me 👁️
tomorrow.
notifs on.
👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️📖🥀✨👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️
I've been working been on this art series for almost a year now,
but it's really a cumulation of everywhere my mind has been.
Yesterday was just incredible seeing reactions to the Perils trailer. so happy and grateful.
I hope you'll be a part of this story 🥀
//𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒
Potato of Sēsē 🥔🥀✨
My Dearest Storytellers, we take a quick breather to notice a hot potato making an appearance within our pages after receiving it from the elegant
@yatreda
. This spudnik is pretty determined.
but wait - it's calling a name.
Whispering
@cathsimard_
? 🥔
Perils is a body of work, a series of paintings and illustrations embracing traditional art and animation techniques - then pushed into this new concept made possible with code.
I probably spent almost two years trying to understand what it meant to engage in the digital tools
Perils,
🥀 Blossoms are happening today 🥀
In this beginning, there were two phases that I'm growing.
A new kind with the new ERC 7160.
Blossoms will happen both literally and figuratively.
Your Blossom happens depending on how long you have kept the page in your custody. If
I can't emphasize enough my gratitude for those who believed in me from the start and that still do to this day.
more nervous than ever if I can pull this off.
but I realize I don't have a choice - I HAVE TO. I don't care if I have to stop sleeping again for a while.
In the next 20 hours of being here at Art Basel Miami my auction with
@phillipsauction
, PORTRAITURE BY SENECA, will end tomorrow, Friday 12/2 at 12pm ET.
We have met reserves on 2 of the 4 artworks in the series.
"Portrait of Emergence" 👇
👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️
To those who believe in the art and my work,
THANK YOU. You make me want to keep going and keep getting better.
To those who talk shit,
THANK YOU. You make me want to keep going and keep getting
Have we been paying attention?👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️📖✨👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️
wrapped something today, so tired but happy 🙏 so pleased to have met some stellar people who made me feel comfortable in my own skin. still prefer to speak from my paintings but we made it work💙 gn gn