ABout SHARDS

While the world was busy panic-buying toilet paper, Shards was busy making art. What began as a creative outlet during lockdown soon evolved into an obsession. Long before NFTs entered the mainstream, he was sharing work through Sunday night auctions on the WAX blockchain and giving pieces away in Telegram communities, part of an early digital art scene built on experimentation, collaboration, and genuine community.

A major influence on his development was Zero One and its simple creative philosophy: make something to collect something. The idea was straightforward: create consistently, don't wait for perfection, and learn by doing. That approach transformed a casual hobby into a dedicated practice, teaching him to trust the process and find meaning in the act of making itself.

Working primarily with found imagery, Shards draws from public domain books, vintage magazines, archival materials, and classical artworks. Through collage and digital manipulation, he reimagines forgotten visuals, bringing together different eras, scales, and narratives to create something entirely new. Familiar images become uncanny, overlooked details take centre stage, and fragments of the past are given new life.

A Season 2 artist with Avaissance and an exhibitor at Beeple Studios, Shards has developed a distinctive visual language that blends historical references with contemporary digital culture. His work inhabits a space between pop surrealism and dream logic, where disparate fragments are assembled into images that feel at once familiar and impossible.