yusaymon is a Venezuelanartist whose neo-expressionist digital and mixed-media work channels his own life experience into raw, emotional images.He grew up amid poverty and turmoil in Venezuela,,and later channeled the chaos of his early life into digital art.
As a child, he lived in a house with no furniture, no windows and no refrigeration. He also struggled to socialize because of the fear around him. Drawing with crayons became his only outlet, and he dreamed of becoming a painter.As a young man, amid Venezuela's economic collapse, he left the country and migrated across South America.
In 2017, a friend introduced him to blockchain technology, and he began earning cryptocurrency for his art on the Steemit blogging platform. Through the crypto artist Stellabelle, he was introduced to the EOS blockchain, where he became a genesis account holder and contributed to projects including PixEOS, EOSwriter, SOV and Vigor.He has said he sustains himself entirely by selling his work as NFTs, mainly through SuperRare, and gives a portion of the proceeds to a children's home in Peru and other causes.,
His 2022 piece Punisher of Scammers depicts a vigilante figure who metes out justice to blockchain scammers, made as a tribute to people who have been scammed. cyclops, also from 2022, recalls a childhood Carnival costume his stepfather helped him make from old clothes and paint, a memory yusaymon has described as both painful and loving.
