Meaning of visual artist Gratias Avis: Gratias is an old prayer in a monestry en Avis is the Phoenix bird flying through the Multiverse and Metaverse. In the VR Museums you can see episodes with this symbolic Phoenix bird rising at the golden planet AI, of Altruism and Integrity, with facts, news and revelations.
It began as a journalistic investigation that also became a study assignment in the investigative journalism programme IRJ in Mechelen, Belgium, which journalist Claudia Koole attended during her many years working for the written press, various newspapers and news agencies in the Netherlands. To clarify things, study sketches were made for the research. There were so many, a chronological order emerged with a story that was drawn and painted by several post-impressionist artists in the 19th and 20th centuries. The study sketches have been transformed into digital art by Gratias Avis and mined into NFTs in collaboration with Fluidensity.art in the Netherlands. To keep the journalistic work and the visual art separate and clear, Claudia Koole has adopted the visual artist name Gratias Avis. With her educational background as an editor and screenwriter, she creates the creative YouTube series It’s the Art, my Dear, in which all the research results are successively incorporated. The work has an educational and inspiring character, as revelations accumulate. In addition to the VR Museums and the YouTube series It’s the Art, my Dear, a separate digital newspaper will also be published in which Claudia Koole, as a reporter, will provide ‘explanainers’ for the articles that are written.
