Riptopunk, 2025, oil on canvas board, 6 x 14 in. / 15.24 x 35.56 cm.

Riptopunk, David R. Sterry, 2025, oil on canvas board, 6 x 14 in. / 15.24 x 35.56 cm.

Art and technology have always been interwined. While generative art moves from human to machine, this piece reverses that process. I reconstructed a famous CryptoPunk using physical objects to mimic its pixels, then painted it in oil as a traditional still life.