{"id":16963,"date":"2023-02-17T22:38:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T22:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/art\/the-harvest-per-kristian-stovelands-love-letter-to-science-fiction\/"},"modified":"2023-02-17T22:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T22:38:52","slug":"the-harvest-per-kristian-stovelands-love-letter-to-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/art\/the-harvest-per-kristian-stovelands-love-letter-to-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harvest: Per Kristian Stoveland\u2019s Love Letter to Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Per Kristian Stoveland\u2019s artistic mind inhabits the liminal space between the logical and the playful. A visual artist who fell in love with coding at a young age and the co-founder of the Oslo-based design studio Void, Stoveland has recently found a home for his love of generative art and graphic design in Web3. On January 18, 2023, he released his latest NFT project, The Harvest, on the generative art platform Art Blocks. With a current floor price of 7 ETH and more than 2,684 ETH in trading volume on the secondary market, Stoveland\u2019s first big entry to the Ethereum blockchain has been well-received by the NFT community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the artist\u2019s recent foray into Web3 came about somewhat unexpectedly. Specifically, it was on the heels of a passionate return to creating generative art that he had, for some time, put down to focus on client-based work at his design studio. <\/p>\n
Thanks to the blockchain, Stoveland has had to reevaluate the trajectory of not only his work but also his artistic identity and career path. That identity has its roots in the cities and towns of Kenya and Zimbabwe, where he spent much of his childhood. Without that experience, Stoveland might never have taken art seriously.<\/p>\n
NORAD, Montessori schools, and family<\/h2>\n
When Stoveland was just two, his parents moved the family to Africa. At the time, his father oversaw Norwegian foreign aid plans for water development in Kenya and Zimbabwe for NORAD. His parents were adamant, however, that they didn\u2019t want Stoveland and his younger brother to receive a typical Norwegian expat education. Instead, they opted to send them to a local Montessori school.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve become more certain that my time at that Montessori school set a standard for me,\u201d Stoveland explained to nft now with test prints of The Harvest hanging in the background of his home office. \u201cIn many ways, my brain works logically and analytically like my father\u2019s. But being dropped into that school kind of fired me on a trajectory which didn\u2019t follow his footsteps. That [education] set a foundation that has always kept me more on the creative or more playful side of things, even though my biology kind of screams for logic,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n