Criptocromo is a visual artist working in graphite drawing and digital animation, whose imagery repeatedly fuses human bodies with plants.,Drawings such as Starbody I: Ficus elastica and Starbody II: Drooling God render figures growing into or out of vegetation,,while A successful exhibitionism I is captioned as “Human helianthus standing, and its face experiencing pollination”.
His name comes from the Greek for “hidden colour”.Working across graphite, watercolour and digital animation since at least 2018, he produces original drawings on paper that are sold alongside a matching NFT claim and certificate of authenticity.,In 2021 he was named among a group of twenty pioneering early crypto artists, recognized as having been active in the space before it was widely known.
The 2018 series Sigils presents digital sigils meant to expose and heal invasive, irrational thoughts arising from troubled minds.His 2020 series Questions is described as “Lost psyches, deranged bodies.”
He has collaborated with other early crypto artists, including Oficinas TK on Abraxas - a talisman in 2018. With n⨀sce he made iMAGIne. aCt. in 2020, composing a cluster of sprouting seeds around what he called “the aureal proportions”. He co-created Exohack with k0ch, Okytomo and neurocolor for the “FutureArt” show in Sydney, Australia, in January 2021. In 2023 he collaborated with Berkanas on The hunger, a piece described as starring “two beautiful praying mantises and a lucky lily vegman”.His 2019 work Grito II was included in Oficinas TK's compiled collection, the Thoreau Centre for the Blockchain Arts.
