One of the most important aspects of the Avant/Gay scene is how the artists involved have a deep understanding of the importance of physical practices.
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Originally posted Saturday, October 4, 2025 · Archived Feb 28, 2026, 2:27 AM
One of the most important aspects of the Avant/Gay scene is how the artists involved have a deep understanding of the importance of physical practices. There are many people here who came from painting, mixed media, sculpture, etc., and this shines through in both the way they make and think about art online, as well as their understanding of general aesthetics. ↓🧵
There are many artists who have very complimentary practices, where their digital art informs their physical work and vice-versa.
This is clearest in artists like Evil Biscuit and Bosch, especially with their recent show at Yeche Lange ‘One Of Us Is Real And It's Not You’.
Evil Biscuit’s work at the show was a direct precursor to his Drifella 3 project – the physical pieces were made prior to release, but used the same traits and generations as the digital pieces. More interestingly, the physical frames in the show were then translated to digital to create the faux gallery space that the project is framed around.
This tied in perfectly with a new feature on VVV that allows for artists to sell their physical works through the platform – for example, if you got an Alien Frame Triptych as an NFT, you can get a real one sent to you, with your specific Drifella 3 pieces inside.
The same goes for any Drifella 3 – all individual frames are claimable for a physical pieces, and are housed inside of a gorgeous concrete frame. The frame is decorated with Han-Solo-Carbonite-esque depictions of various Drifellas, as well as a ‘333’ running along it’s bottom edge, giving it the look of an engraved tombstone.
Bosch’s approach for the show was more sculptural, with the creation of a set of ceramics that revolve around his chess-like game ‘Super Metal Mons’, as well as general 90s nostalgia pieces, with Pokemon characters frequently a part of his creative output.
Pieces from Bosch’s project ‘Super Metal Mons’, a GAN AI generated set of NFT figurines, are re-imagined IRL – we get to see a perfectly glazed ‘Blue Snowflake Omom’ and a few different iterations of a ‘Gummy Deeno’.
This is perfectly tied together by the Super Metal Mons boardgame – a chess-like game that is insanely addictive. The boards are super unique and incredibly well designed, and your roster of pieces can change depending on which ones you like the most.
Luckily, you don’t have to play in-person, as there’s a whole website complete with leaderboards, player cards, custom emotes, a tutorial and more. It’s a great time to learn it too, as there is currently a competition running with some pretty stacked prizes, including inclusion in a tournament, a $CAP and a Little Swag World HEXP. If you're interested, you should check out @supermetalmons!
Yeche Lange has consistently been a hub for pioneering physical art by artists from the scene, such as a show of Jim Spindles ‘Spindles’, which were on display at the time of his ‘Scarecrows’ NFT release, alongside works by Kenny Schachter, as well as group shows like ‘Haircuts’ which featured physicals from Wretched Worm, Jared Madere, Evil Biscuit and Earl.
Where Biscuit and Bosch have a practice that is explicitly tied to their NFT releases, there are others pushing past this.
Mifella, although often continuing to use his own character in his physical works, is able to push into new ground via the disparate aesthetics and intensity of his IRL drawings and paintings. One of them, titled ‘Bauernstuhl’, a mixed media piece, was shown at Yeche Lange, and is easily one of the standout pieces by an artist in the scene. It is able to capture so much of the Mifella and ‘Cuckcore’ movement within it, without using something as explicit as the Mifella character. The symbols are still there: the cuck-chair with a heart shaped back, women peering through cracks in the decrepit, cemented walls and broken floorboards, the smeared gestures you often see as overlays in his NFT projects.
Mifella’s approach to drawing does feel similar to the prolificity afforded to NFTs – there are videos where he shows off stacks and stacks of drawings, all seemingly on found scraps of paper, all telling a strange, disjointed story.
This was also exemplified to me at his recent show in Athens, where the walls were stuffed with pieces, seemingly covering every part of the gallery where they didn’t need a ladder to reach. https://x.com/MMifella/status/1957813706512818226…
They don’t just exist on paper though – there are customised IKEA bags (one of which is currently up for auction on his Exchange page), custom bleached tees, paintings on vinyl banners and old music equipment. One of the pieces I own is a stolen poster for the theatre production of ‘ja nichts ist ok’, at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, scrawled over with a giant blue Mifella face.
In regard to newer entrants to the scene, Duguccipourmonchat’s recent 'Reverie' collection was an instant favourite when it released. Where Biscuit, Bosch and Mifella have specific characters to make work around, Duguccipourmonchat’s work instead seems to revolve around ideas and aesthetics: softcore pornography; manga and comic works; 90s nostalgia in the form of games and toys; narrative pieces made out of bright neons.
Seeing his physical works tells you a lot on how Reverie came to life.
I’d be remiss to not mention Terrorism’s physical cards, which were immediately co-opted into NFT pieces by Biscuit, included in both Drifella and Drifella 2. It’s super exciting to see how his physical practice will be remixed into a new NFT form with his upcoming release, with the preview collection ‘Cloudcastle’ using the entire ‘Little Prince’ book as it’s canvas/background.
I’d also be a fool to not mention Parker Ito, whose entire career appears as an obvious pre-cursor or premonition of ‘traitmaxxing’ as we know it in our scene. From maximalist paintings, in which many elements have been recycled into his NFT projects, to his White Cube show that was a sculptural jungle, Parker ending up in the space seems inevitable in hindsight.
There’s plenty to dig into, with deepcuts such as Heavenly Daze physicals hiding in plain sight within Drifella 2; Goob and Hungry Bugs NFT doodles, where NFTs become a reference image for fun, slapstick, almost naive drawings; Spiky DJ’s SOL project that uses physical ‘Spiky DJ’ pieces as the central characters; and Blume’s works that seem like a combination of both Spiky DJs method (the Blume characters are all hand drawn for the NFTs) and the Doodles (Blume does a lot of NFT/Memecoin inspired painting and drawing works).
We also have the excitement of FairyBaby’s new book, which is a physical counterpart to his ‘Squishy Drifters’ collection. It’s something that I think will totally change peoples idea of what they can do with the large collection format, with our scenes collections often lending themselves easily to this book viewing experience. I believe his book will open the floodgates for others exploring this type of release.
https://x.com/fairybaby420/status/1968663112485155264…
Footer: As always, thank you to Exchange Art @exchgART & Bonk Inu @bonk_inu Art Masters for their support in helping me publish this article. There’s loads to dig into here, with a lot of these works able to be bought physically. If you recently made some money on-chain, it’s probably worth investing in some nice house décor in the shape of physical gay works.
Links: Cover image by Earl (@earl): https://yl.baby/artists?artist=earl&artwork=cb476925-3375-498d-bb24-be80666ed70c&artworkTitle=%2524swag-%282024%29-… Yeche Lange, ‘One Of Us Is Real And It's Not You’: https://yl.baby/nyc-galerie?show=one-of-us-is-real-and-it%27s-not-you… Evil Biscuit: https://x.com/bis__cut Drifella 3: https://vvv.so/drifella-iii Bosch: https://x.com/supermetalx Super Metal Mons (NFTs): https://opensea.io/collection/supermetalmons/… https://opensea.io/collection/super-metal-mons-gen-2… Super Metal Mons (game): https://mons.link Yeche Lange, ‘Upside-down Promises’ (w/ Jim Spindle and Kenny Schachter): https://yl.baby/nyc-galerie?show=upside-down-promises… Scarecrow NFT: https://yl.baby/scarecrow Yeche Lange, ‘Haircuts’: https://yl.baby/nyc-galerie?show=haircuts… Mifella @ Yeche Lange: https://yl.baby/nyc-galerie?show=staking-your-life-on-a-prank… Mifella Physicals (on site): https://cuckcore.de/cuckery.html Mifella Physicals (Exchange Art Auctions): https://exchange.art/mifella/nfts ja nicht ist ok: https://berlinerfestspiele.de/en/theatertreffen/programm/2025/10-inszenierungen/ja-nichts-ist-ok… Duguccipourmonchat: https://x.com/gucci4mycat Reverie: https://tensor.trade/trade/rverie Terrorism: https://x.com/terrorism______ Cloudcastle: https://vvv.so/cloudcastle- Parker Ito: https://x.com/CreamyDreamy Parker at White Cube: https://whitecube.com/gallery-exhibitions/maid-in-heaven-en-plein-air-in-hell-my-beautiful-dark-and-twisted-cheeto-problem… Drilady: https://tensor.trade/trade/drilady Drifella 2: https://tensor.trade/trade/drifella_2… Goob: https://x.com/glorp_goob Hungry Bug: https://x.com/1_2_sl333p Spiky DJ (on SOL): https://launchmynft.io/sol/9640 Blume: https://tensor.trade/trade/blume Squishy Drifters: https://tensor.trade/trade/squishy_drifters…
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