AT83 - Monika Bravo, Polymath

About Monika

Monika Bravo

is a multidisciplinary artist and polymath born in Bogotá, Colombia, and currently based in Miami Beach, Florida. Her work spans public art, immersive sculptural environments, and a recent exploration of Austrian economics and Bitcoin studies. In 2024, she self-published The Nature of My Reality, edited and co-produced by Mari Budlong and partially funded by The Miami Individual Artists Program. This book chronicles her journey from disempowerment to self-awareness, exploring themes of individuality, economic systems, and the philosophical underpinnings of human action.

Her artistic philosophy synthesizes Eastern, ancestral, and cosmological traditions with praxeology, emphasizing liberty, value, and self-worth. Monika thrives in constraints, creating innovative, community-serving art that integrates seamlessly with its surroundings. Notable works include Ouranos, Above Us Only Sky (2024), an animated skyline blending real and imagined structures at Grand Central Madison in New York, and Arcana (2025), a dynamic, stage-like environment incorporating glass and metal inspired by Bauhaus aesthetics, at the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building of the University of Washington.

Other significant commissions include Unus Mundus (2022) at the East Boston Police Headquarters, which explores dialogue through suspended glass sculptures and mosaics, and An Interval of Time (2020) at the Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, a panoramic animation juxtaposing natural phenomena and human perception.

In 2024, Monika began speaking at Bitcoin conferences, framing Bitcoin as a "Promethean fire" with the potential to support liberation. She explores the value of scarce time and its relationship to human action, nonviolence, and low-time preference, integrating these ideas into her broader inquiry into individual sovereignty and community empowerment. Monika’s practice continues to merge artistic vision with technological and philosophical insights, inspiring connection and dialogue.

Follow Monika here:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monikaco
X: https://x.com/BravoMonika
Nostr: monikaco@primal.net
Substack: https://www.monikabravo.blog
Book: https://www.studioofendlessideas.com/buy-my-book
Artwork: http://www.studioofendlessideas.com/publicart
Astrology-human design sessions: http://www.studioofendlessideas.com/sessions

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Monika Bravo I AM OPtimist