Name: Dan Verkys
Location: Victoria, Australia
I describe myself as a creator or an imaginer, a dabbler in art, literature, and sound. Since the mid 1990s I had been primarily focussed on creating and exhibiting bespoke digital art. Sadly with the advent of A.I and growing community distrust for digital art. I retired from it as my primary form of expression. Although I still use it to flesh out ideas privately, I have shifted direction and now focus more on creative writing, poetry, world-building, and ambient music.
My work explores mortality, observation, memory, transformation, and the liminal spaces between life and death. I am quite open about my struggles with my mental health and I use the creative to process to address this ongoing conundrum. The tools I use across various art disiplines are surrealism, dark fantasy, (sometimes) humour, and atmosphere, to explore themes of hope, anxiety, loss, and meaning.
I see art as both therapeutic and connective, a way to process inner turmoil, give shape to difficult emotions, and share experiences that are often hard to express. Across visual art, poetry, short fiction, and music, I aim to create immersive worlds that invite reflection, imagination, escape, and emotional resonance. As an independent creator, I have always followed my own path, building mythic, introspective spaces where darkness becomes a way to better understand ourselves.
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