# How to Buy Art on WhatsApp – Text Zien

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/how-to-buy-art-on-whatsapp-text-zien/
- Published: 2020-09-23T09:45:26-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image: Omsk Social Club Psychomancy Syndicate 2020 (in transition). Article by Stella Botes. Last week I bought my first work of art. The only thing is, I didn’t buy it but ‘claimed’ it, like a ten-pound note on the street, and actually I’ve already lost it. Does this make me a collector? Maybe, but not a very good one. The work is called ‘Association Grid: Dark Night’ by British artist Ed Fornieles. For now, it is stored somewhere on a zipped file on my phone, waiting for me to create it. The work is strange and unconventional, a series of photos of monkeys and brains and Mark Zuckerberg, fizzing with associations in a stone-circle round, but the way that I bought it was perhaps more unconventional still – via WhatsApp, by texting Zien. […] Click here to view original web page at fadmagazine.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki See Full Bio