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The non-fungible tokens, or NFT's, that were digital keys to mainly digital artworks probably had their market value killed off by the advent of Covid.
The common view is that the resale market declined to zero around that time and losses across the board must now exceed 90% for all of this 'art'.
That market was part of what you get with group delusion (partly because tokens are still usually a way to participate in an opaque deception).
Some of this art is lost because the underlying digital files to which the NFTs are keys no longer exist or have been corrupted.
You could probably now have a token that, unlocked, made a 3-D printer create, say, a gargoyle - but that would be doing little more than executing an industrial design process. Nonetheless, a gargoyle design, not for serial production, can be quite artistic. What is in doubt is that there would be liquidity for a secondary market in the token or key.
I prefer what Victor Horta did for his ornaments - for its originality.
His studio made plastercasts first from his designs, with full detail, which were then handed to the individual craftsmen to execute in costlier and more durable materials.
Victor Horta Museum
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I supppose I have some difficulty with this one. Were you needing to craft an ionic column today you would not be able to find a craftsman who could do it and were there one, the cost would be many times that of the machine trimmed one. However, you could produce one that properly conformed to classical proportions.
Our society has removed skills and plurality by using an oligarchic economic model: someone might feel that Amazon was the only shop left and so on.
When Victor Horta part-invented Art Nouveau he lived in a time when craftsmen's skills and plurality were abundant and so he could invent a style that reflected his time.
When he returned to Belgium after the 'unexpected' cataclysm of WW1 he realised it would no longer fit the age and so moved to a stripped down Art Deco. Manufacturing techniques had removed craftsmanship's viability in many areas. The society moved, in some ways, to where we are: efficient but more austere.
We have to move in the opposite direction but avoid the unexpected cataclysm in the middle. The oligarchic model has to cede to a new plurality, and eventually probably will, and, if it does, there will be expression of fuller, more elaborate styles, as were Art Nouveau, Baroque and Rococo.