Victor Solomon and NFT Steez Discuss Building in Web3 and the Metaverse

The award-winning artist Victor Solomon was interviewed by NFT Steez this week on basketball, the Metaverse, Web3, and his distinctive NFT line.

Victor Solomon spoke with NFT Steez presenters Alyssa Expósito and Ray Salmond on Dec. 2 about his journey into transforming his real-world artwork into NFTs and how he fosters the surrounding culture.

Basketball is the subject of Solomon’s art as well as the sport itself. The desire Solomon had as a young child to play the sport of hockey—which was inaccessible to him—and his later discovery of basketball—which he found to be more accommodative—serve as the foundation for his creative output.

Isaiah said, “Basketball provided me with such a great motivating platform because there are no admission requirements.”

In the podcast, Solomon discusses the symbiotic relationship he has encountered while developing VesselVerse, the basketball of the Metaverse, and claims that the open nature of basketball is a “amazing analogy for everything that’s happening in Web3.”

Solomon highlighted the “invigorating” quality of being able to create things that cannot exist in real life, like a “planet inside a hollow basketball,” as well as the process of incorporating the physical elements into digital renderings and composites when asked about the liberating aspects of creating and iterating in Web3.

Building a collection and a group of people to support it came naturally to Solomon. He gained the same knowledge and framework for his approach to the release of digital artifacts from his significant expertise in the traditional art field.

VesselVerse operates similarly to Solomon’s physical pieces, drawing influence from earlier NFT initiatives like Nouns, Solomon’s digital collection, with the exception that one “vessel,” or basketball, is auctioned off every hour.

According to Solomon, working within Web3 gives participants and collectors a wider and larger voice in the direction of the work rather than a one-off experience, in contrast to physical installations or exhibit pieces in a gallery.

Solomon highlighted the “invigorating” quality of being able to create things that cannot exist in real life, like a “planet inside a hollow basketball,” as well as the process of incorporating the physical elements into digital renderings and composites when asked about the liberating aspects of creating and iterating in Web3.

Building a collection and a group of people to support it came naturally to Solomon. He gained the same knowledge and framework for his approach to the release of digital artifacts from his significant expertise in the traditional art field.

VesselVerse operates similarly to Solomon’s physical pieces, drawing influence from earlier NFT initiatives like Nouns, Solomon’s digital collection, with the exception that one “vessel,” or basketball, is auctioned off every hour.

According to Solomon, working within Web3 gives participants and collectors a wider and larger voice in the direction of the work rather than a one-off experience, in contrast to physical installations or exhibit pieces in a gallery.