FAQ

1111 is a pioneering NFT art collection by conceptual artist Kevin Abosch, launched in March 2021 on OpenSea.
Each piece is a unique composition of cryptographic alphanumerics, exploring themes of identity, value, and attention.
Technically, the collection uses the ERC-1155 standard on Ethereum, with metadata stored on Arweave for permanence.
Why it matters : 1111 is recognized as one of the earliest examples of blockchain-native art, blending algorithmic generation with artistic intent.

Pay Attention to Kevin Abosch's 1111 series! Pay Attention is more than a website name - it's a clue about how this project is meant to be experienced. 1111 is designed to unfold over time, and to reward close looking: patterns, repetitions, absences, and signals that are easy to miss on a marketplace feed. This site exists to help you slow down, navigate the collection clearly, and notice what changes - on-chain and off-chain.

Marketplaces are great for trading, but not for reading a body of work. With 1111, context matters: how pieces relate visually, how the collection evolves, which tokens are visible, listed, or gone, and how the narrative develops over time.

Released in early 2021, 1111 arrived unusually early in the arc of on-chain art - and it already pointed toward a now-central intersection: blockchain-native art, cryptographic code, and the artist's broader practice involving machine learning / deep-learning methods. Many collectors and observers consider the 1111 series a landmark body of digital work from that moment.

Pay Attention focuses on clarity: fast browsing, reliable links, and the states that matter (ownership, listings, and special cases like burns), without the noise of a trading interface.

1111 didn’t launch as a trait-driven generative drop. Minted on OpenSea in 2021 with no traits, each token is a unique composition and rarity is something you read, not something you’re given. It’s contextual and time-based: visual intensity, palette, legibility, collector demand, and availability.

Practical rarity exists too: some pieces are rarely listed, others have surfaced at major auction houses (Sotheby's), some have sold for fortunes (the highest sale recorded to date on OpenSea is 128 WETH - USD 267.5k at the time), some may disappear from circulation (for instance if a token is burned or becomes inaccessible), and certain numbers naturally draw collectors' attention.

Pieces can be purchased on OpenSea or via private sales. Check the Collection page for available tokens.

Burnt tokens are pieces that have been permanently removed from circulation by their owners — typically by sending them to a designated burn address on Ethereum, such as 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dead. They may still remain visible on-chain, but they are effectively off the market forever. This reduces the circulating supply and can increase the relative rarity of the remaining tokens in the collection.

A satellite is part of the 1111 story. The artist references 1111 KOSMOS, described as a CubeSat satellite project intended to orbit Earth and produce climate-related data.

This website is published and developed by Guillaume Horen, an 1111 collector - obviously! - and a fan of Kevin Abosch’s vision. Don't hesitate to say hello on Twitter/X or LinkedIn. Sales data is updated every 3 hours. There may be occasional errors or missing traits — please feel free to contact me!