Strands of Solitude deep dive with William Mapan | Into The Collection #14 (Twitter Spaces)

Stay up to date on the generative art world in 5 min with our weekly newsletter - direct to your inbox!An unedited recording of a Twitter spaces with the amazing artist William Mapan! We talk about the inspiration behind his beautiful new project Strands of Solitude (releasing Friday March 10 on Tonic) and how isolation from the world during Covid drove his art.  A deeply resonant conversation with a genius generative art artist, this is a fantastic conversation for anyone interested in digital art. We also highlight Tonic with CEO Susannah Maybank, a new platform aiming to bridge web3 to traditional collectors.This episode can also be found on our Youtube channel here. Please subscribe, like, and comment - it really helps us!Episode artworkStrands of Solitude by William MapanShow NotesWilliam Mapan | https://twitter.com/williamapan | https://linktr.ee/williamapan Strands of Solitude | https://tonic.xyz/collection/strands-of-solitude/ Tonic | Tonic.xyz | https://twitter.com/tonic_xyzTimestamps0:22 | Introduction to our show and guests4:04 | William's inspiration behind the collection5:38 | How William found pre-selecting all the outputs difficult in a different way than random outputs17:27 | Traits that carried over from William's other projects Dragons and Anticyclone22:10 | How William utilized a similar technique to Anticyclone but was able to expand on it for Strands of Solitude26:01 | William breaks down the different palettes in Strands37:07 | William details some of the other traits within the collection44:10 | William discusses how the art is made with printing in mind50:25 | Reflecting on his past year William shares his sentiments as a full time artist54:55 | Susannah, Tonic's CEO, discusses their approach to bridging traditional art collectors to web358:21 | Audience questions, including what's next for William1:12:40 | Thanks and wrapping up the show