By Web3ArtBlog.NFT
Her water colors are truly phenomenal and we are going to take a wet and deep dive inside her water color NFTs.
I came across Lisa Forgaty’s work via her insanely humorous and ironic tweets. Irony is after all a very Scandinavian tradition and Lisa hails from Sweden.
I was absolutely blown by Lisa when she tweeted that, “Shaggy taught me everything I need to know about accountability”
For the uninitiated, Shaggy is the 90s hit maker of “It Wasn’t Me” If you have no idea what I’m talking about you are obviously not a millenial, so here is a link to the official song video.
Question: Shitposting. How did you master the craft? It’s certainly good for engagement because it led me to your phenomenal artwork.
Answer: I would say I’m a lot funnier in Swedish (and in person) but I can’t do much about that now that I’m on NFT-Twitter. The secret to a good shitpost is to make it so dumb it almost hurts.
Question: Hi Lisa. Are you really allergic to seafood or was that tweet ironic shitposting ?
Answer: Sadly I developed my seafood/fish allergy when working as a chef and I try to deal with it by using humor and antihistamines.
Question: Is the nude art or the art nude? I ask because several of your phenomenal artworks are quite frankly unapologetically and poetically nude?
Answer: I don’t see it as nude art at all, I paint women using the female gaze. When you are a woman painting women you are creating archetypes and stories, not just erotic material and/or “celebrating the female form”.
It’s a summary of how I perceive myself as a woman in many ways – it’s the images and discourses I’ve been feed throughout my life; they are children’s book illustrations, pinups, IG models, 80s underwear catalogs and comic book girls.
Question: Let’s talk about your artwork titled, MAKING CHOICES. What inspired the artwork and have you always made smart choices in love, life and art? Do you regret any choices?
Answer: There is definitely a story behind it and so far many women have been able to figure out what the story is.
When it comes to choices we have this illusion that we could have done it differently but most things are predetermined – choices made based on our life and experiences at that point in time. Sure – you can look back and realize that you should have done it differently – but you didn’t.
Question: Literally writings are woven into your artworks. How much does literature and what kind of literature influences your art? A good example is your artwork titled, MORE MYSELF THAN I AM where you quote Emily Bronte, “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” Wuthering heights, Emily Brontë
There is a lot of text in my art and I get to weave in some secrets and stories in the background. Most of my magazines come from old (1890s-1960s) women’s magazines. Some of them – like Idun – were considered feminist at the time but are hopelessly outdated by now. I mostly use short stories and they always have the same theme – how to fall in love and get married. It’s an interesting contrast to a more modern illustration style and woman.
A fun “easter egg” is that I’ve snuck in clippings from song books, Soviet magazine “Sputnik”, poetry and flower books.
Question: Your artwork titled, “Rose” is poetry and conjures deeper symbolism and the woven literature is in Swedish. I feel like this artwork accomplished what Madonna was trying to say in her Vagina NFT’s.
Answer: I would never flatter myself to think that I am anywhere near the excellence that is Madonna. From what I understand her work with Beeple depicted the birth of technology, nature and evolution while “Rose” is a romanticized version of the flower picking Midsummer girl hoping that her seven wildflowers will let her dream about the man she’s marry.
Mine is nostalgic and naive while Madonnas is powerful and futuristic.
Question: Speaking of Madonna. She is the first A list celebrity to literary mint her Vagina on the blockchain as an NFT. What is your take on her NFTs and would you mint your own Vagina as an art NFT?
Answer: Always be careful when you call something “the first” on the blockchain, I am sure there has been other vaginas before hers.
Would I mint my own vagina? When it comes to art there are no limits – so yes if an artwork called for it.
“Yes!”,I mean next 😁👍Question : How did you come to the world of minting NFTs of your watercolors and how has that experience been?
Answer: I’ve never liked posting my art online and since I had no idea there was a whole community around this I thought it would be a fun experiment. I honestly didn’t think anyone would find it or buy it.
Question:When you are not making art or Shitposting, what do you do to relax?
Answer: This is assuming I know how to relax – I don’t.
When I’m afk I’m gardening, cooking, walking through meadows or having an age related crisis.
Question: How do you see NFTS and Web3 evolving in the next 10 years?
Answer: I think some of us will still be minting art in 10 years but the market is definitely going to change – no one knows exactly where it will end up though. And I think we’ll all be surprised over what will hold it’s value and what won’t.
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