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Indonesian artist Diela Maharanie helps keep NFTs in the public spotlight
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Three’s a crowd: Diela Maharanie shares an irreverent moment with fellow NFT artists Tommy Chandra and Arya Mularama in front of her work “The End is the Beginning“ at the Art Moments Jakarta exhibition. (JP/Tunggul Wirajuda) (JP/Tunggul Wirajuda)
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ndonesian nonfungible token (NFT) artist Diela Maharanie continues to prove that the cryptocurrency driven art form is alive and kicking, in defiance of skeptics, naysayers and pessimists predicting the field’s imminent demise.
The nonfungible token (NFT) artwork on the HD screen captures one’s attention, not least because of its vibrant, psychedelic shades. Titled Days Like This, the illustration by Indonesian NFT artist Diela Maharanie seemed to balance her upbeat take on the field with nagging concerns about its prospects. Part of her Controlled Chaos NFT collection, Diela captured the mood by balancing the meditativeness of the girl in the center of the picture with the melancholy clouds and tropical downpours. A colorful dreamscape of rainbows, purple flowers and tunnels rounds out the NFT work, lending it a touch equal parts Dali and Alice in Wonderland.
Starting off in NFTs
Days Like This, along with The End is the Beginning from the Controlled Chaos NFT collection, highlighted the Art Moments Jakarta exhibition in both its offline editions from Nov. 4-6, 2022, as well as online edition until Feb. 28, 2023. Made under the Tezos blockchain company, Diela’s NFT works, along with those of her compatriots Arya Mularama and Tommy Chandra, as well as Thailand’s Sarisa Kojima, loopymoon alias Marion Olmillo from the Philippines and The Curious Unicorn (Hamlatul Arsy) from Thailand, vie to catch the attention of art aficionados.
Though Diela’s impact on the NFT scene belied her recent entry into the field, it represented the next step for an artistic career that dated from the 2000s.
“I have been a professional illustrator since 2006, creating commercial, fashion and merchandise illustrations. I also display my digital art on Facebook as well as the DeviantArt website, among them the Diela Daily Drawings works, some of which were turned into NFTs,” said the State Islamic University (UIN) alumnus in accounting in a Zoom interview on Nov. 27, 2022.
