Virgil Abloh’s first NFT “Self Portrait” shows “DAO smashing through the Louvre, representing Web3 smashing the barriers to entry for all creators”

This would have been Virgil Abloh’s first NFT, titled “Self Portrait”

“It is his envisioned DAO smashing through the Louvre, representing Web3 smashing the barriers to entry for all creators.” pic.twitter.com/oVMYku8VAx

— SAINT (@saint) November 29, 2021

• The world is still stunned by the untimely passing of designer Virgil Abloh, who died on Sunday from a rare form of cancer, cardiac angiosarcoma.
• Fred Ehrsam of Paradigm reveals that Abloh had been working on an NFT project.

Virgil saw Web3, in his own words, as an opportunity to “inch us a little closer toward a utopia for creativity.” pic.twitter.com/G9U06ezcjn

— Fred Ehrsam (@FEhrsam) November 29, 2021

• Ehrsam posted a pdf of the NFT plans. You can download it here.

Gymnastics Institute

“What I have running in my head is to start a real-life, digital museum. For it to become an institution where the currency used in that space is my unique social token.”

“Inside the space will be my work, but also the work of a community of adjacent artists operating on a token of the space”

Preface by Virgil Abloh