Immerse yourself in this audiovisual art-film collection documenting DOES’ day-by-day creative process, and discover how the creation of his intricate collage work comes together, cut by cut and frame by frame.
Joos van Barneveld, better known in the art and graffiti worlds as DOES, is a painter, sculptor, graffiti artist, and former professional soccer player from the Netherlands. He has exhibited in the United States and his work has been featured in Graffiti Art Magazine. Once a member of the LoveLetters graffiti crew, his style and script are distinctive, featuring dizzying color schemes and controlled dripping of paint. DOES’ art has evolved into new conceptual directions with his latest sculptures and paintings.
For his first major foray into the world of NFTs, DOES stands by the understanding of art as a process-based practice as much as (if not significantly more than) a mere outcome to be bought and sold. As such, rather than sell a single piece as a single piece, he is giving fans and collectors the opportunity to own the process. Seven short documentary films on the making of a single piece of art will drop alongside his latest piece, Lotus, a collage that sold at his latest exhibition in Marseille, France.
LOTUS 7 is an imaginative audiovisual collection by DOES, capturing the creation of his paper collage Lotus. Each day of this unique journey shares an insight into the world of DOES and his creative process of creating unique hand-cut graffiti-styled paper collages.
The subtle distinction here is that these films are not merely about art, but are themselves art as much as, say, a dance film, music video, or ethnographic documentary.
The complete series includes:
- DAY 1 | FIRST CUTS
- DAY 2 | PAPER LAYERS
- DAY 3 | DETAILED VISION
- DAY 4 | PRECISE FOCUS
- DAY 5 | PLAY AROUND
- DAY 6 | THE FINAL CUT
- DAY 7 | PAPER PIXELS (animation)
- Animation | LOTUS PULSE
- Video | LOTUS TIMELAPSE
The drop includes ONLY:
- DAY 4 | PRECISE FOCUS
- DAY 6 | THE FINAL CUT
- DAY 7 | PAPER PIXELS (animation)
- Animation | LOTUS PULSE
- Video | LOTUS TIMELAPSE
The rest of the collection will be available at DOES’ storefront the day after the drop.
DAY 1: FIRST CUTS
Not included in the official drop
DAY 2: PAPER LAYERS
Not included in the official drop
DAY 3: DETAILED VISION
Not included in the official drop
DAY 4: PRECISE FOCUS
Editions: 1/1
Pricing: 0.5 ETH
Description: 2:19-long short film // High-resolution image of the Lotus collage
// Signed and numbered fine art print
DAY 5: PLAY AROUND
Not included in the official drop
DAY 6: FINAL CUT
Editions: 1/1
Pricing: 0.5 ETH
Description: 1:08-long short film // High-resolution image of the Lotus collage
// Signed and numbered fine art print
DAY 7: PAPER PIXELS
Editions: 1/1
Pricing: 24-hour auction with a reserve of 1 ETH
Description: 1:11-long animated Lotus // High-resolution image of the Lotus collage
// Signed and numbered fine art print
LOTUS PULSE
Editions: 7/7
Pricing: 0.2 ETH
Description: 30-second looped animation // High-resolution image of the Lotus collage
LOTUS TIMELAPSE
Editions: 7/7
Pricing: 0.2 ETH
Description: 11-minute timelapse video of the creation of Lotus // High-resolution image of the Lotus collage
About DOES
Joos van Barneveld, better known as DOES, was born in Veghel, The Netherlands, in 1982. His prime passion was soccer and he trained and played as a professional player for the soccer club Fortuna Sittard from the age of 9. In 1997 he discovered graffiti, a passion that coerced him into a double life. For more than a decade he was forced to combine the daily needs of a professional athlete with the night-time secrets of a graffiti writer. In 2010 a knee injury forced him to give up his career as a soccer player and rethink his future.
Where many would have experienced a drama, DOES saw the possibility to exclusively devote himself to art, developing his practice and carrying his craftsmanship to a higher level with the same dedication, focus, and self-restraint that soccer taught him. Through the years, both as an artist and as a member of the LoveLetters graffiti crew, his style, which is today highly recognizable, has become a mix of influences from old-school writers and his own research. In his drawings and paintings, you can discover the roots of 3D lettering, but you can also be surprised by his patient research of well-balanced color schemes and his capacity of controlling the purity of outlines. As Phase 2 wrote in his Style Writing from the Underground manifesto in 1996: “Writing is centered on names, words and letters. Combined with the objective of their execution, this creates the product and the overall makeup of the writer”. DOES perfectly understood this process and calmly researched his own style, which can be seen as a kind of controlled dripping. His letters, with their dizzying color schemes, are stretched so much that they seem to release their energy and spread drips all over the wall.
While many recognize him as an ultra-talented draftsman and an amazing colorist, DOES is today moving the boundaries of his own artistic research in new conceptual directions, looking at graffiti as an archive from which he can physically pull out samples that embody his own roots. He drills or peels off walls covered with spray paint to include these artifacts into sculptures made of plaster. He develops a kind of contemporary archeology of urban spaces, keeping a trace of the geographical coordinates of these walls, readapting the tools of a science that normally deals with past times to underline his own story and the impact of graffiti culture on our society.
