Digital Vellum draws together the polarised worlds of Physical and Digital Art.
In both worlds, rarity is everything.
From the limited edition of 10,000 CryptoPunks, only 11 will be carved and realised in the physical. Etched into leather.
Through an intricate, creative and meticulous process of hand-etching and hand-pigmenting, the DV artists carve your Punk as a textured, physical artwork. It will be unique, visceral and captivating.
The DV artists decode and re-envision each pixel of your Punk; developing and realising its character, understanding its backstory and adding new energy, dynamism and texture.
Your Punk will never have been so alive.
It requires months of surgical precision, with scalpels and blades to hand-carve your artwork into a beautiful hide. With intricate accuracy, honed over decades, each pixel is carved with new details into the leather’s surface, creating a 1 of 1, physical piece.
DV will crate and ship your artwork to an address of your choosing and validate its authenticity with a unique NFT, tying together your Cryptopunk and your artwork.
As a progression of his remarkable work, DV is the brainchild of artist Mark Evans https://markevans.studio - a non-archetypal, non-conformist outlier.
His primal leather artworks invoke awe with their intimidating scale and intimate detail.
Never settling for the conventional, Mark Evans continues to push the boundaries of what is possible using his finely honed, yet age-old craft on material that has been used for millennia.
Vellum symbolises the fine leather skin used for scrolls scribed with quills by monks in dimly candlelit abbeys. Digital, the glowing pixelated realm powered by electricity, algorithms, and imagination.
DV evokes the mysteries of ancient and modern worlds colliding; where the logical precision of zeros and ones merges with the organic imperfection of weathered leather. It's the fusion of data and matter, machine and hand, historic process and futuristic potential. DV sanctifies digital art through the transcendent ritual of craftsmanship.
Digital art is beautiful, provocative and fun. DV challenges how it is viewed and experienced by humans. We are yet to live in a fully immersive cyberspace, our everyday lives are still on earth. DV bridges the digital and physical and removes the screen that separates.
