Blue Face
Toki
My art inspiration comes from an artist named Blank Banshee. I’ve always admired how his work feels open to interpretation, like every piece tells a different story depending on who’s looking at it. When I first started creating art, I approached it the same way, letting viewers find their own meaning. Over time though, I started blending that idea with my own emotions and experiences. I realized how powerful it is to express how I feel in everyday life. FLUID! That’s the word I always come back to. Versatile and adaptable. My creativity feels like water. It flows through whatever shape it needs to take. I would describe myself as a boundless ocean of ideas, constantly moving, changing, and reshaping itself.
The reason I came up with the sticker concept was simple curiosity. I wanted to see if a single image I designed, paired with a QR code, could spark interest or start a reaction. It started out as just a fun experiment, like what would happen if I left a piece of my art out in the world for random people to discover? But it quickly turned into something deeper. It became this quiet way of connecting with strangers.. Every time someone scanned one or even stopped to look, it felt like a small shared moment of discovery. That’s what I love most about it, that my art could reach people in the real world without me being there. It’s my way of building a small community through creativity, one interaction at a time.
And I’m completely okay with it being a slow, genuine process, not something forced or rushed. I don’t care about blowing up overnight or chasing numbers. I’d rather have something real and organic, something that grows on its own. So I decided to test the idea out for real. I ordered 100 stickers as a test run, each one a 2x2 in. That size felt perfect to me. Subtle enough to blend in on a wall or sign, but still big enough for someone to notice if they looked closely. I remember the day they arrived; I opened the package and just stared at them for a while. Seeing my art printed like that, something physical I could actually hold, made me feel proud in a way.
I didn’t really have a plan for where to put them. I just wanted to see where the journey would take me. I started sticking them in different spots around my city, near creative areas, sometimes in random corners where people wouldn’t expect to find art. Over time, some made their way out of state and traveled small trips I took. Honestly, I don’t even remember all the places they ended up, and that’s part of what makes it fun. The idea that my art could be sitting somewhere I’ve never been or maybe on a street post in another city or a café wall a thousand miles away.. exciting to think about..
After awhile of putting up my stickers , I started noticing something my website traffic began to rise. Not a crazy spike, but enough to make me notice that people were checking it out more often. Around the same time, I also gained a few new Instagram followers, people I didn’t know at all. That’s when it clicked. The stickers were actually working. My small idea, this little experiment, was making real connections. It felt good because it wasn’t about numbers or attention, it was about proof. Proof that creativity can still reach people physically, even in a world that’s so digital now. There’s something more human about someone finding your art out in the real world, touching it, scanning it! Some people even messaged me saying they found my sticker somewhere and wanted to know more. Those messages made my day. It showed me that people still appreciate mystery, discovery, and creativity that isn’t spoon fed to them. That’s what keeps me going, knowing that my art can speak for itself.
The stickers also taught me something deeper about my process. Being fluid doesn’t just describe my art, it describes how I move through ideas. I don’t stick to one path.. I let my projects evolve naturally. Just like water, I adapt to whatever direction creativity pulls me in. Whether it’s digital design, music, or something completely random I treat it all as part of the same flow. Blank Banshee’s influence definitely planted that mindset in me, the idea that art doesn’t need to be explained. It can just exist. My stickers are like that too. I don’t want to tell people exactly what they are or what to think. I just want them to experience it however they feel. That freedom of interpretation is what makes it sensational (Futures Voice) lol. Even though this was just a test run, it opened my mind to new ideas and what to implement next time. The thought of someone discovering one months or years from now still feels exciting. I think in today’s world,it's important. Everything feels so fast and temporary online, but when you put something out into the real world, it feels more alive.