Mann About Town July/August 2022 Cover Feature: Paul Milinski

Paul Milinski

DIGITAL ARTWORK, THE METAVERSE AND BEYOND

BY LAUREN SCHUSTER

“I was drawing from a really young age, all through primary school and a little bit through high school until I left, and I think what I learned about artwork at my school was that it’s not a good career option and there’s no real future in it,” Milinski said. “So, I stopped pursuing it for a long time and I did a lot of labor work, a lot of factory work, things like that, but while I’d be working at the factory I would be sort of drawing on the desk or something like that. So, I always knew I wasn’t fitting in there, so it got to the point where nothing felt right, so I just sort of dropped the job that I had (it was a landscaping job I think) and then went to do some graphic design and then put a folio together, got a job, did that for a while, started leaning more into art through graphic design, and then just started putting artworks out through my Instagram on the side, just for fun.”

“The Grotto” by Paul Milinski

“[NFTs] are very exciting,” Milinski said. “It’s just a super unusual thing that happened and it happened really really quick. I believe it’s a massive solution to a problem for digital artists. For so long we’ve been creating and it’s been perceived as being worth absolutely nothing and now it’s worth absolutely everything. It’s so exciting to be part of something where artists are not getting screwed over anymore. So, I love it, I think it’s such a good thing.”

“Synthetic Cascades” by Paul Milinski