This week the stage of your weekly poetry shot is for Gomp_art. Gomp is a poet and photographer who has been creating mostly on Tezos. The poem Somersaults, embedded above, is his first on Base and with it, he became the inaugural grantee of the trpplffct poetry grant fund.
As he told us in an interview last year, he's "an artist and educator in Cape Cod (Massachusetts, USA) who crafts NFTs from my poetry and photography."
His nom-de-plume Gomp "comes from Gomphotherium, an extinct genus of elephant that I read about right when I was starting my deep dive into art on the blockchain."
When asked what poetry means to him, he said: "I don't know if I can define it. Words that solicit emotion? Crafted language play? Phrases of sentimental bloodletting? Episodes of catharsis? I thought of this the other day: Graffiti of the heart upon the edifice of the mind.
Poetry is something like that."
And about why poets should start minting their work onchain, as NFTs, he said: "Jump in. We need your voice."
You can read the full interview here.
The poem Sommersaults can be collected here:
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Poésie de la vie
I'm always impressed by visual artists. And when you see their process videos, it always seems so easy. Until you do it yourself. So, just enjoy the creation of this elephant:
