This Armenian Artist Is Selling Her Ovarian Egg As NFT So That The Buyer Can Conceive A Child With It
Armenian artist Narine Arakelian, 42, is selling her ovarian egg as an NFT and hopes that the buyer would use it to conceive a child.
Believe it or not, an Armenian artist is selling one of her eggs as an NFT, or non-fungible token, at Art Basel Miami Beach.
This artist named Narine Arakelian who lives in Los Angeles, California created a painting called 'Love, Hope, Live' which contains a contract for one of her eggs. The person who buys the piece gets Arakelian's egg, and she expects them to conceive a child with it, she told Page Six.
The 42-year-old artist has not named a price for the NFT and appears to be willing to sell it to the highest bidder.
The artist, who has a 21-year-old son of her own, said she is excited to 'bring a child into the world through her work, and hopes to sell it to a couple who is struggling with fertility.
"It¡¯s a beautiful act of creativity to give the gift of art and life," she told Page Six. "My artworks are all my children and the fact this one will actually produce a child is wonderful.
'The art will always mean so much to the buyer because it brought them their child. It will always carry that special memory."
Despite the fact that the painting contains the words 'love,' 'hope,' and 'live,' but she will only be selling the portion that says 'live' as the NFT.
Once the buyer is ready, Narine will undergo "a procedure fully supervised by doctors and experts" to retrieve her egg.
However, she did not indicate whether she would be willing to undergo multiple rounds of egg retrieval in case the first one is unsuccessful.
Narine said she spent more than a year deciding whether or not it was the right thing to do. Responding to potential criticism that this is just a 'performance' for attention, she said, "Art is always perception. If people see this as a performance, then it is. However, my choice was not based on whether it was a performance but more about it being the biggest gift I can give with my art." She told Fortune,
"The egg will hopefully become a child and then it will be a child, not art. However, I hope the child and its parents will always feel a special connection to my art and the NFT," she added.
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