Exploring the Surrealist World of Digital Collage
The Digital Punk Apocalypse
Seans.jpg cooked up a career as a professional food photographer before turning his focus toward capturing mouthwatering images of beautiful nude women (which we have termed Digital Punk). When the 2020 lockdowns started and physical distancing meant that photo shoots were out of the question, the artist dove into creating digital artwork and has never looked back.
Why did you decide to start creating digital punk collage art?
At first, I was fascinated with portraying women in an artistic way that helped break down the social boundaries about sex and nudity. I’ve always been interested in pop culture and the restrictive nature of our society regarding sex and recreational drug use, like psychedelics. It has always astonished me how most people are content to live this cookie-cutter life that’s forced upon us by social norms. So naturally I try to add a shred of relief to this stigma by creating art that can make you laugh or smile or question. Everything I’ve ever created has a purpose, mostly in metaphors or clever visual puns, to try to push my viewer to think deeper into the meaning.
Where do you find inspiration for your art?
Everything from social media, politics, news, pop culture through the years and music. I constantly consume media to fish for ideas and write them down as soon as they come to me.
What’s involved in creating one of your digital punk images?
Just a great imagination and Photoshop.
What do you think is the driving force behind the trend of collage art right now?
I feel there is a strong uptrend in this style of art now, since the massive fame of artists like Slimesunday, who is also a large inspiration for me. But it’s about taking ideas and making them your own. As Austin Kleon said, “Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.”
Are you working any digital punk at the moment?
Presently, I just dove into the NFT space and had a tremendous response. I’m currently working on a specific collection that will be called “Where’s my mind” on OpenSea, so that should be ready within a few weeks. I’m also working on a collaborative project with a famous photographer for another big NFT drop that should be launching soon. We are just ironing out the details at the moment.
Tell us something interesting about you.
I have spent the most part of 10 years of my life traveling the world. I have no idea how many countries I’ve been to, but I’ve ventured from the jungles of Thailand all the way to the ice caps of Iceland.
Full disclosure, we had to slightly change the original aspect ratios of some of the images in this Digital Punk gallery, and for that we apologize to the artist. We do hope that encouraging everyone to check out his Instagram @seans.jpg will help ease some of the potentially devasting pain. Should that not work, we would advise Seans.jpg to check ou the entire Art Section on Penthouse. He said he gets his inspriation from everywhere, and rumor has it Penthouse can be very inspirational.
