Artist Damien Hirst is burning hundreds of artworks each worth £2,000 💷 Buyers had to choose whether to keep the original artwork or have it burned and receive an NFT 🔥 👉
On the first day of the burning, the smell of torched paper lingers throughout the gallery. All 10,000 paintings are represented here, with the 5,149 works whose owners opted for the physical greyed out.
"I came into it, I was always art. I was going to have art on the wall. But it changed. We were in the community and it was nice. We were all in an [online] group and it's just been brilliant. Mr Johns, whose physical piece will burn later in October, says he may look to sell at some point, but for now he is enjoying the experience.
"NFTs are too new for me, whereas having something I can hold - I prefer that," he said."I thought it was taking too much of a risk to take the NFT.
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