Welcome!

ABOUT

Welcome to muzei.io! This is the website where I will be displaying my different projects as a portfolio. Firstly, I will have a collection of artworks, some available for sale at Portfolio. Secondly, I will try my best to explain what the app, muzei.io, is.

muzei.io is a Artist and Community Social Media, one that doesn’t thrive off of an algorithm built for stealing your attention, rather one that benefits it with Art and Culture.

PROTECT

COUNTER

CULTURE

Artist Statement

Dima Gapeev is a Baltimore raised Artist, attending Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and UMBC, graduated with a Bachelors in Physics. After college, Dima developed a vision, a solution for a very large problem within the social technology landscape. Driven by pure passion, he developed muzei.io, a platform whos purpose is to change the norm surrounding how we approach art, culture, and politics.

In the United States, majors platforms are owned by the elite ruling class, and the software that is used in these platforms are designed to steal your attention and control the narrative. They have a monopoly on attention, on social interaction, and on discourse.

In an attempt to maintain the status quo and keep the population in line, the largest threat to the system will be the counter culture, the nonconformists. They are actively passing laws to destroy any sense of community that the counter culture has access to.

Themes behind the Art

Community

My work often surrounds themes of a brighter future, using strong lights to exemplify what could be and what could happen if we all realized what's important in life, Kindness and Community.
Fragility

My works often tend to be painted on second hand supplies, usually
mirrors and glass from photo frames. I do this to emphasize the
fragility of art and culture, claiming that the two should be treated
carefully and thoughtfully interacted with.
Cats

I depict cats and flowers often to inspect the contemporary narrative
on gender roles and ego, as well as optics, perspective, and
understanding
Nature

Nature is the all encompassing, and has been there before huumanity, is a part of humanity, and will bounce back after humanity. It is the constant that we overlook.
A Brighter Future

I create art with a sense of a strong light source present, with strong high lights and ambiguous tones in the shade. This is a reminder that we cannot stop fighting for the future of our planet.