I had come across the term NFTs but had no idea what they were. Until that is, The Visual Arts Association put on a zoom meeting about them. I decided to watch, though completely convinced it would not be of any interest to me. Sometimes I can be quite a dinosaur. To my surprise, the subject piqued my interest. I could see that it was an exciting new concept and moreover one that could have meaning for me. For someone who has taken more than seven months trying to build a website this might seem strange. I looked the subject up, having only understood a fragment of the specialists’ explanations and broke it into small bites.

Non-fungible tokens represent digital assets of rare collectibles like art. Each token consists of a digital file paired with an encrypted, immutable contract written in code that sets out the rules of ownership and authenticity. It is a record of who owns it, stored on a tamper resistant digital public ledger called a blockchain.

Since the tokens are non-fungible they cannot be traded or exchanged because of their rarity value unlike cryptocurrencies. The attraction to an artist like me is, I keep the original piece of art no matter how many people might buy into the image. I have always made one offs so once sold they are gone. One is even allowed to take a limited edition of prints to sell. I felt I really ought to give it a go!