Raphaël de Courville is Coding Digital Carats 💎

Find out the creative process, background and inspiration behind Sableraph NFTs

Today’s #30NFTartists30days edition is about Raphaël de Courville (aka Sableraph). He is a generative artist that broke into the NFT scene early last year on the hic et nunc platform. His creations are made with code, sometimes on-chain like his carat series on the FxHash platform (where the blockchain stores the code) and sometimes as isolated works. He has been involved in technology and art for many years, creating pieces and working on innovations that resembled NFTs even before they came to life.

How did you discover NFTs?

I heard about modern NFTs around November 2020, back when the controversy about the environmental impact of Proof-of-Work was ramping up. Because of the issues raised by Memo Akten, Kyle McDonald and Joanie Lemercier, I decided to wait for alternatives. Then I heard about Hic et Nunc from Joanie himself, shortly before it launched in March 2021. I created a Tezos wallet and minted my first piece there soon after.

My first weekend on HeN was transformative. You could say it revolutionized how I looked at my own work. I’d been making…