Scarcity
Zach Gage, 2021
Transient website
THIS IS NOT THE ARTWORK
You may still be able to see the artwork through somebody who owns it. It has no permanent public URL, and unless you have been following it, it may already be gone.
I made Scarcity during the NFT explosion, when digital ownership was being treated as a technical problem that cryptocurrency had finally solved. Instead of minting a permanent token, I made a transferable, impermanent URL.
The piece has scarcity, ownership, and investment, but no uniqueness and no financial upside. I wanted to know what it might mean for a digital artwork to stay in somebody's life the way a painting stays on a wall.