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After publishing 🖤 One About Darkness, the collector of “Placebo” reached out to thank me for the story. I navigated through her Twitter account and ended up scrolling through her hic et nunc collection, and… wow! It was amazing! The collection was not only huge in quantity but also quality. I recognized up-and-coming artists and already established ones. We exchanged a couple of messages, and I could see her passion for NFTs. That got me inspired to touch upon the collecting element in the crypto art world. At the end of the day, no collectors = no crypto-art.
She goes by the username @cabline1 on Twitter, but her real name is Ombeline. She lives near Paris, in the iconic city of Versailles. You couldn’t have asked for a better place to feel inspired by historical and modern art. She has been collecting art for many years but joined the metaverse in April 2021. Since then, she has amazed a collection of over 800 NFTs and expanding.
My love for collecting art comes from my roots. My late grandfather was an art expert specialized in 18th century porcelain as well as a collector, therefore I was introduced to that world when I was little. I have been collecting physical art for many years, but the crypto-art space got me hooked like never before.
She heard about the crypto space early in 2021, but she thought it was a scam at first. All the…
