When I grew up during the eighties my father always fixed our broken car by replacing one part with another. Both me and my mom took his work for granted. He fixed everything, with his own hands. He was a mechanic and an amazing welder. Born to create things out of steel and metal. That is art in its purest form and it will stand the test of time (until the age destroy steel by the oxidation which can take thousands of years). To live hand to mouth, month by month is also art. My mom has this thing with finding out the greatest deal. Collecting where food and other goods can be bought for the cheapest price, everything in the art of surviving. I was born into a family tree with musicians and creators. I have it in my genes. For the good and for the bad. Times of no inspiration is killing me from time to time. That is the downside of the art until the dragon wakes up in the cave, then my thoughts and ideas must come to life through the way I express myself, once again. I view the world in a different way than most people. I started to create music at the age of 13. Playing my guitar along to tracks of Clapton, Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Nirvana. I spent my teens to become my own master of my own universe. Music and the art were my universe and it still is. It was my getaway from everything I felt uncomfortable with. I have always combined music, art and drawing. I don’t know anything else and always had issues understanding people that wasn’t into it. What is the point of life if there is no music or art?  

I adore Banksys work (among others). The artwork he sold for an astronomical amount of money, that later was destroyed by its inbuilt paper-shredder (in the frame of the artwork). That was brilliant. But also, a message. The message was more important than the artwork itself.  The artwork will never be preserved but the memory of that specific happening will last for the foreseeable future. Art doesn't need to exist as we know of existence. Art is very complex. It’s up to the observer and only our imagination is limiting us. That is the beauty of art.  

Blockchain as a it is, as we know it. It’s a territory that isn’t used by the mainstream, yet. I am active in different communities. As an observer and an artist. Because I am not skilled enough for the technical analysis or the cracking of code. But I do understand that the blockchain is a very powerful tool and our fingerprints, what we do will always stay on the blockchain, if we want. I have been thinking about to make my own art to be preserved forever. By uploading it to a blockchain. We can never manipulate blockchains and it will stop the forgery of art and money, forever. Blockchain will let us be able to verify that the art you purchase is authentic.  

Then we should not need psychical authenticity documents. Relying on bitcoin is the ultimate safe haven in the future. That’s what I believe. We are not there yet. The generation of today are the pioneers, the ones that does the trial and errors. Our next generation will probably understand these things much better than myself. I am investing my visions, my time and money into something that will be there for hundreds of years to come. And we are in the infant stage of it. Let that sink in for a moment. 

I am still a bit old school in my mind. The psychical product, the pen and the paper. And the fact that my artwork can be destroyed with a fire or a flood, makes my artwork fragile. Years of sunlight bleaching a forgotten paper arc can never be digitalized. The smell of ink, aquarelle, oil and the mess a charcoal pen can create it will always amaze me though I will always be openminded for what the future has to offer.  

sidarta0 , contributor and artist for Decred, Horizen and Monero. As known as sidarta0 @ twitter