June 8, 2026Artist Evil Biscuit spoke with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) before the release of card nft 2, the artist’s trading-card-game-inspired project, first appearing with SOLOS Gallery at Felix Art Fair in February 2026. They discuss the project's evolution from card nft, Biscuit's digital-to-physical process, and how the work's emphasis on destruction and rebirth is material as much as conceptual.About the AuthorEvil Biscuit, card nft 2 (test output), 2026. Courtesy of the artist‍Evil Biscuit on card nft 2, Destruction & RebirthArtist Evil Biscuit spoke with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) before the release of card nft 2, the artist’s trading-card-game-inspired project, first appearing with SOLOS Gallery at Felix Art Fair in February 2026. They discuss the project's evolution from card nft, Biscuit's digital-to-physical process, and how the work's emphasis on destruction and rebirth is material as much as conceptual.‍Peter Bauman: How is your new project, card nft 2, related to its predecessor, card nft?Evil Biscuit: This collection is split in two, where one half is based on the same ideas at play as card nft. Those were also designed on preexisting trading cards with collages on top of them but they were much lower-quality photos and screenshots from the internet. With this collection I’ve decided since we want to print on top of them when people redeem, we should scan them at a high DPI and use those scans as the base artwork, making them really crisp and detailed as opposed to the noisy, meme-like quality of the original set.The other half of the collection are similar to these holographic IRL cards I've been posting recently. These are a heavy upgrade from the original collection using and remixing these scans with color gradients.I’ve been making those with black or white, sometimes inverted, masks. There are collage elements too but the unique thing about this half of the collection is they'll all be printed on a holographic base. When redeemed, they will be