In 2015 Franky Aguilar founded a company called Yoshirt Inc., the company was a digital clothing design application. The app allowed users to compose real clothing design, using images and stickers from their mobile devices. After receiving a seed round of investment, we built the distribution channels and manufacturing pipelines. And bam, Yoshirt became a machine.
The idea of merging digital experiences and concepts with physical goods has always resonated with Aguilar. As an artist He’s always tried to push the edge by developing and designing technical ways to blur the lines between when and what is digital or physical.

In 2016 Franky Aguilar had the chance to meet some top Facebook marketers who specialized in drop-ship Art Marketing. In pure curiosity of understanding the “Art World” from this approach, he joined forces with them to completely rebranding and building a technical art pipeline to handle their massive catalog of art. The website Canvas Cultures is a physical art platform, that gives digital artists a distribution method. By utilizing Facebook and Instagram ads, Canvas Cultures has successfully distributed tens of 1000s of physical canvas prints (a lot of which are my original designs).

KnownOrigin.io While living in London, Franky Aguilar had a chance to meet with the company Known Origin, a decentralized art distribution platform for digital artists. He uploaded a few digital paintings and saw himself generating passive income in ETH when users purchased his art. “I had never sold digital work in this capacity”, where this exchange of artwork is treated like physical art pieces. His highest selling piece “Glitchy Rich” sold for 0.407 ETH ($237.19 USD at the time).
Glitchy Rich — Franky Aguilar, 2018
Fast forward to 2019, living in downtown Las Vegas, Franky Aguilar finally started “Doing Art Again”.

Technical Skull, 2019 — Franky Aguilar
“I want to put Certificates of Authenticity on the Blockchain” So he figured out how! For each painting, he films the process in a time-lapse. This represents the PROOF of WORK. This time-lapse is archived and uploaded to Instagram and Youtube.

Timelapse — Technical Skull, 2019 — Franky Aguilar
When the painting is complete, he uploads high resolution images to his website and create a product SKU number, which can be used for sorting and storage.

Once my SKU has been generated, He mints a Certificate of Authenticity (100–250 ETH) on Known Origin.

COA, Technical Skull, 2019 — Franky Aguilar
This certificate acts as a Certificate of Ownership. Who ever owns this unique token, owns my painting. Once the certificate has been minted, I manually write the TX Hash number onto the canvas. This directly links this body of work to the NFT token. People can purchase his work by physical or digital means.

Technical Skull, 2019 — Franky Aguilar
Franky Aguilars goal by middle of next year (summer 2020) is to have 1 million dollars worth of Art, minted on the blockchain. Each certificate for this art project will be minted at 100–250 ETH per piece. He will complete nearly 50 pieces of work to accomplish this. All work will be purchasable on Known Origin and or in person by direct contact.
This body of work will be one of his largest project to date. As always he am looking to push the edge of physical to digital application, and this time he will be eternalizing my physical works of art on the blockchain.
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