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Born in 2002 in Curitiba, Brazil, Cydr began exploring art at a young age through drawing, painting, and sculpting. However, a pivotal moment came during a school Photoshop class, where Cydr discovered the world of digital art. This sparked a journey from designing YouTube banners to crafting album covers, eventually evolving into deeply personal work that expresses their emotions and ideas.

Having grown up immersed in video games, newer technology and internet culture, Cydr often infuses their art with a digital aesthetic, reflecting a deep appreciation for and nostalgia from their childhood. Now, at 22 years old, Cydr merges playful experimentation with profound self-expression, drawing on memories and everyday observations to reinterpret the familiar through a lens of distortion.

An interview with cydr led by Carlo Borloni

Your artistic journey started at a very young age with drawing, painting, and sculpting. Can you share a bit about those early experiences and how they shaped your creative path?

I was introduced to art very early as a way to have fun. Id spend tons of hours drawing, painting and whatever - never really came to my mind about being an artist, but it was a good and healthy thing for me. and the experience continued; id say that a lot of my art was done from me having some “me time” and exploring my own little world.

Some people were really into football as a child, for example, and they happen to have fun by playing or watching it. for my case, id say that art works in the same way, and it may have “shapen” me to care about my craft and my time on it.

The pivotal moment for you came during a school Photoshop class, which opened the doors to digital art. What drew you to digital art, and how did that initial spark evolve into the kind of work you create today?

Digital art was a lot better for me because it opened up a whole new and contemporary world to me.

I just feel like physicals, even if you have all the skill in the world, it still takes a lot time and resources to do and finish a work, but in the digital realm, you can do anything, at any given time - and that is what maintained me into it.

Video games, technology, and internet culture seem to have had a big impact on your work. How would you say those influences shaped your artistic identity and vision?

Video games would be a big impact on me due to its history, topics, jokes and aesthetics; i feel like i had many great memories playing games, like runescape and call of duty, that i can explore their world with my own little language. not only do topics related to them make me nostalgic, but it does inspire me to talk about it through my art.

same goes to internet culture and technology- growing up with it, there is so much to explore and relate to. Summing it up, my artistic identity is all a good blend between current moments and things that feel nostalgic to me.

Your work often balances playful experimentation with profound self-expression. What does your creative process look like, and how do you bring those two aspects together?

My process starts with me trying to turn an idea that i had in mind into reality, and the technical part really depends of what i want to achieve. The ideas come from materials and/or experiences from my day to day life or old memories, after that, i brainstorm to see what is the best way to execute it.

Due to my heavy distorting, i can take different paths to work around the ideas that to bring. Since i am the one to distort the subject, i will forever know what the final outcome was about, however, the viewer might not. Because of this, i try to balance out my personal ideas/expressions and what the viewer might have to see to understand a piece; this often takes current experimentation to find the correct outcome of it all. (hope this made sense)

Memory and distortion are recurring themes in your art. Why are these themes significant to you, and how do you use art to reinterpret the familiar?

I see distortion as a way interpret things from different point of views. A bad example, but if a tale is passed down to 1000 people over and over, the latest “copy” of it will be different from the first. by pulling out memories of certain moments or looks, it is guaranteed that something will feel off or diverge from reality, and that is what i try to achieve, but also trying it out with a digital realm.

Let's dive into your new collection,

"Postcards." What inspired the concept

behind this series, and what personal meaning does it hold for you?

Postcard is something you usually share with someone you like and/or need to talk to; if it happens to be the first option, it is common to share a bit about how your life is going.. and a good way to do that and elevate the moment is to send pictures of life in a very raw way. By traveling a lot this December/Jan, i was able to collect many good/fun/interesting/important memories, and did happen to see this idea of getting all of these moments i had and mint them for future record.

Each piece in "Postcards" begins with a photograph that evolves into a

reimagined artwork. How do you decide which moments to capture and

transform, and what role does photography play in your creative process?

I just looked around and saw how beautiful a few moments are, even insignificant ones. there are details about them that seem way too interesting to pass by, and thats what caught my raw attention. by seeing these moments, it was important to take a quick picture of them. for self reflection or just future appreciation

The collection incorporates visual interferences like arrows and drawn

elements that mimic traditional postcards. What is the significance of these

elements, and how do they contribute to the storytelling in your work?

In my personal opinion, they happen to show that i care about the image and its subject;

Sending out a postcard can be really simple, but sometimes you do want to highlight something that is on it.

"Postcards" blends nostalgia with experimentation, reinterpreting

memory-sharing for the digital age. What message or emotions do you hope

viewers take away from this collection?

Think about the little moments that crosses your life. Have a good balance with nature as much as you have with internet - both extract good and bad memories from you.

In addition, people may get different interpretations from the same piece, and i am all for it! Each person has its own experiences and these images may feel like something to others, and useless to the rest; a postcard is personal, and so is ur experience with art

As a 22-year-old artist with a rapidly evolving career, where do you see your art heading next? Are there any new themes or mediums you're eager to explore in the future?

at the moment id like to explore the digital side of things a little bit more, while also blending in photography and abstraction. No themes in mind though.

I just want to explore more with what i can have access to and master it

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