Thirteen origins
The published account traces the collection from Aspen V on November 23 to Verdandi Reflection and Nice To Meet You on December 15. Each work has its own ERC-20 contract, with a supply of one.
AN ORIGIN IN 2017 ETHEREUM · 13 ORIGINALS
Art has an origin.
Thirteen singular works. One artist’s conviction that digital art could carry its own history.
Enter the collection ↓VERDANDI ARTEFACTS2017 / 1 OF 1
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Fire’s Place
in Life and Death
A vivid red presence held within a dark, restless field. An encounter with fire’s capacity to sustain, transform and consume.
The collection’s sole publicly listed work, as identified by the artist. Explore its record and current listing on OpenSea.
View listing on OpenSea ↗01 / THE ORIGIN
Before a market.
There was an intention.
For Verdandi, the question was personal: how could a digital work belong to someone while remaining connected to the artist who made it?
Already working across painting, sculpture, graphic design and photography, she taught herself to write the smart contracts that would carry her digital work onto Ethereum. Each of the thirteen Artefacts was deployed to its own individual contract.
COPYRIGHT & PROVENANCE
A record beyond the blockchain.
All thirteen Verdandi Artefacts were federally registered for copyright, with deposits of the works placed with the U.S. Copyright Office at the time of their tokenization.
In its account of the collection, @fun_nft identifies Verdandi as the first female solo artist to program and mint her own NFTs on Ethereum—an artist taking authorship into the contract itself.
The artist’s wrapper
Verdandi creates an ERC-721 wrapper herself, connecting the original contracts to modern NFT infrastructure while retaining their provenance.
A renewed audience
NFT historian and podcaster Adam McBride interviews Verdandi, bringing renewed attention to the collection and its place in early blockchain art.
02 / THE COLLECTION
Thirteen Artefacts.
Individual works. A shared beginning.
Select an artwork to look closer.
A PLACE IN THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
From the blockchain
to the museum.
Two of Verdandi’s NFTs from 2017-18 reside in the permanent collection of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in Texas. Their preservation places an early chapter of her digital practice within a continuing history of fine art.
SAMFA San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts · Texas03 / THE ARTIST
Victoria
Verdandi.
Artist. Author. Origin.
Victoria Verdandi, known professionally as VERDANDI or Vee, works across painting, sculpture, photography, graphic design and digital art. Her practice explores authorship, time and the connection between artist and collector.
Her Norse heritage informs a visual language of runic lines and richly worked surfaces. In steel sculpture and the 2021 Vanguard Collection, that language takes physical form; in her digital work, it opens into another material vocabulary.
The Artefacts (2017) belong to a sustained practice. The Legacy Collection followed in 2018, ELEMiNTS in 2022, Origins in 2024 and more recently Electric Hours in 2026. Across these bodies of work, the artist’s hand remains central—even when that hand is writing the contract.
For Verdandi, learning to code was an extension of making: a way to establish a direct connection between her art, its origin and the person who would collect it.
ACCOUNTS & FURTHER READINGThe Artefacts: origins, rediscovery & recognition ↗Beyond the Artefacts: a continuing practice ↗
AN ORIGIN RECORDED. A CONNECTION CONTINUED.