Q: What are your preferred pronouns?
A: He/Him/His
Q: Are you open to commissions?
A: Yes. Please reach out if interested and we can discuss your vision further. My pricing structure is a 50% non-refundable deposit upfront for the total cost of the commission once the project scope is finalized.
Q: What is your return and refund policy?
A: All original artwork sales, sales of prints, digital art and other art products are final (NON-REFUNDABLE). In the event of artwork damage during shipment, the return or exchange of the item can be discussed on a case-by-case basis. Please make note of this prior to your purchase. Thank you!
Q: What mediums do you work in?
A: Short-answer all. Physical and Digital mixed media are what I gravitate towards. But will try my hand at anything that piques my interest. I'm always open to new suggestions!
Q: How can you be reached?
A: Contact page, Instagram DM (stevesartandcacti), Twitter DM (Art_x_Cacti), Discord (steves_art_and_cacti), Facebook (@steves_art_and_cacti), Pintrest (@stevesartandcacti).
Q: Will artworks come with certificates of authenticity?
A: Yes. Note: If you have purchased art and have lost, or didn't receive your unique certificate, please get in contact with me. People at art markets sometimes walk away before I can hand them a certificate. If you get in touch I can verify it, then provide a certificate in etiher digital or physical format. Thank you!
Q: Where do you ship?
A: US-Domestic Preferred. But can offer shipping to wherever you're located. Shipping prices may vary.
Q: How long does shipping take?
2-3 weeks.
Q: Do you accept commissions?
A: Yes. Deposit, Price and Timeline can be discussed via DM or using my contact sheet.
Q: Do you do custom prints?
A: Yes. I can print both physical and digital pieces. The price will be custom depending on the order. The certificate of authenticity can be both physical and digital as well. I also offer prefab. prints of select pieces on my Society6 account, link in "additional links."
Q: What are your digital artwork options?
A: Raw file, NFT (tezos), .jpeg, .gif, etc. I can additionally "tokenize" the authenticity certificate if desired. If you need a special format let me know and I can try to arrange it. I have ehh IT skills, so give me some time to put it together.
Q: Do you collaborate with other artists?
A: Of course! Message me if interested!
Q: What payment forms do you accept?
A: Cash($USD), Venmo, Cashapp, Zelle, Card, Crypto (ETH, BTC, TEZ preferred). I can set up payment plans on a case-by-case basis.
Q: Are you open to doing community art events?
A: Yes! I'm always happy to collaborate with other artists and community organizers. Please reach out by using my contact page.
Q: Art and Cacti? Where's the cacti🌵?
A: Good question. I grow my own, albiet very slowly. I have always connected with the cactus both literally and figuratively, drawing them since I first picked up a pencil. They are symbols of resilience, strength in the face of adversity, conserving, yet menacing, but also a welcome home for various desert creatures. Sometimes they are the only thing that provides shade and respite from the harsh desert sun. I sometimes bring them to art markets, you'll have to come to one to see them.
Q: I dig your style, can I copy your art or otherwise use it in one of my projects?
A: That depends. No, ideally not without my permission. Email me and we can chat more about it :)
Q: What's your stance on using A.I. in your art?
A: [**Scratches Chin**] A.I. has become such a dirty word these past few years. Much like photography and recorded music when those technologies first debuted. "How disgusting!" [*nose tilted firmly in the air*]. "This isn't Art!", the collective voices of the internet shout out in a thundering warcry of comments and vitriol. I find it funny how quickly we answer that highminded question of, "what is art?", when we're angry and upset. For a second, just imagine a world without music sampling. Hip-Hop would NOT EXIST as it currently does. I'd rather artists, poets, philosophers, musicians and other creatives took the lead in utilizing A.I. and other advanced technologies, rather than growth-over-ethics driven tech companies. These companies are using these tools as a means to optimize their ends of making the most amount of money in the shortest amount of time. By extracting value and resources from you, the creators. Who can blame them? Their incentives are clear, non-original and follow a song as old as rhyme and a dance as old as time. We, artists, have a duty to put our creative brains to work and to jam square pegs in round holes and misuse and abuse these systems and to make these tools work for us. To accomplish our ends not theirs. Truth to a machine is semantics. ie user defined. As artists we can create our own datasets, our own fundamental truths about the world. Our lenses in which to see, feel and interpret the world around us. A language of our own if you will. Collectively we can define our own ethics and guidelines. One sunny day most of the world that surrounds us will incorporate these types of automated technologies and for what ends? To optimize living and to free up humanity to have more time? And for what? Come on you can get there with me. The tip top of the pyramid. Self-actualization of course. If I had all the time and resources in the world I probably would be doing......x. Can you answer that question? Automation will afford us more time to do what exactly? To be rich, to make art, to spend more time loving, to read, to philosophize to create a utopia on earth or other planets? What? I'm all ears. Or to sit on our ass to binge more TV and videos of other people living their lives? Why stop and give up creating now? Why throw in the towel and disconnect from a world around us just because the world is changing at a faster clip? Moore's Law or something. I don't know! The world is changing and will change exponentially faster ad infinatum. Change is the only constant. I predict the value of stream of consciousness will be going through the roof soon. Better artists define what truth is than some corporate machine that will eventually become a victim of it's own success. If you need someone to say it, I GIVE YOU PERMISSION. Go f**k with A.I., hell maybe even f**k with it so much that you break it entirely. And when it's broken, sparking from the power outlet and you now have to put out a small fire in your one bedroom apartment. Maybe then as you pull out the fire extinguisher you get the idea to make a beautiful collage out of all the broken smoldering pieces. Or maybe you get an idea to write a best-selling book about how you got so f**ed up you became consumed by the technology in an attempt to create art with it. Do what you want. Just call it art when you're done with it and it'll be ok. We stand on the shoulders of giants everyday from the books, media and culture we consume both analog and digital. These tools are stand-ins for the collective efforts of humanity since handprints on cave walls. The wheel wasn't invented yesterday and originality is a dead horse, reanimated like frankenstein, only to be beaten until dead again. R.I.P. I apologize to my animal lovers. This was merely a simulation. Run Deadhorse.exe. That all being clear as mud, I WILL ALWAYS explicity say when I'm implementing AI, or any other controversial types of tools or media into my artwork. I will strive not to misrepresent myself or falsely claim authority where I have none. My ego be damned to the blackest pits of hell! Experimentation is at the heart of my ethos. Good in, good out period. If it's a tool, I'm probably going to f**k with it and express with it in my own way. Even curious cats have nine lives. [Meow]
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