How the wall
works.
The canvas is open from day one. You choose where to place your pixels — that choice determines the price. Edge pixels start at $0.10 USD. The centre costs $3.00 USD per pixel. Everything between follows the distance from the middle.
Pricing creates intention. Nobody marks this wall casually. Every pixel you see was considered before it was placed.
The minimum purchase is 500 pixels. The maximum is 10,000. There are no reserved zones, no partner placements, no exceptions. Every pixel you see was chosen and paid for by someone.
One canvas.
Forever.
When the 1,440,000 pixels are claimed, the canvas closes. There is no second edition, no sequel. The completed image is registered once in the permanent record and fixed. At most 2,880 contributors will ever exist in this work.
Content
review.
Every placement is reviewed within 24 hours before going live. The permanent record only contains work that was intentional. Placements that don't meet the standard are declined with a full refund.
Your coordinates
are yours.
Once confirmed, your position is written into the permanent distributed record. It cannot be moved, overwritten, or reassigned. The canvas renders in real time from that record — your mark is permanent from the moment of purchase.
Payment
security.
Card payments are processed by Stripe — PCI DSS compliant, no card data touches our servers. Cryptocurrency payments are direct address-to-address transfers. All transactions are final once a placement is confirmed and passes content review.
Three colours.
One constraint.
Charcoal, ochre red, bone white. Every placement uses only these three colours — the same palette the La Lindosa painters worked with. The constraint is what makes the finished canvas cohere as a single work rather than a collection of competing images.
The
economics.
Revenue from pixel sales funds the work — the physical exhibition, the permanent archive, the ongoing platform, and the people who make and maintain it. Every transaction is permanently verifiable through the distributed record.
The canvas is a living project. How the revenue is applied will reflect what the work needs at each stage — bringing it into physical space, keeping the digital record alive, and pursuing the exhibition contexts it deserves.
A portion of every purchase funds the cost of bringing the completed canvas into physical space — production, installation, and the pursuit of a cultural context worthy of the work.
The completed work is stored in decentralised, permanent archives — not dependent on any single company or platform surviving. Physical archival editions are also produced for buyers who want them.
The digital canvas stays live, interactive, and hover-identified permanently. That requires ongoing infrastructure, moderation, and care. The work doesn't end when the pixels are claimed.
First Ask was conceived and built by one person. Artists have always been compensated for their work — that's how significant things get made and cared for over time.
On collecting
and meaning.
The question of what it means to buy space in an artwork is as old as commissioned murals. First Ask sits in that tradition — and is honest about it.
What you're purchasing is a permanent, verifiable position in a historically significant record. Your coordinates are documented and fixed. Your mark is on the wall. The value of that is determined by what the work becomes over time — which is true of every serious artwork that has ever been collected.
The pricing structure is not incidental to the work. It is part of it. Where you choose to place your mark, and what that costs, is a decision with weight. That weight is the point.
Where it
goes next.
When the canvas is complete it will be exhibited physically — in a space that treats it as the cultural artifact it is. The exhibition fund is built into every purchase, and the pursuit of the right venue is part of the ongoing work of the project.
The preference is for cultural institutions, art biennials, and permanent public installations — contexts where the work can be encountered on its own terms, without the noise of commercial display environments.
No venue is confirmed at the time of launch. That honesty is intentional. The canvas needs to exist fully before the right conversation about where it belongs can happen.
& biennials
Major museums, international art biennials, and cultural centres. Places where people go specifically to encounter work that matters — where the context frames the piece rather than competes with it.
installations
A permanent installation in a significant civic or cultural building — an airport terminal, a university, a public library. Permanence matters to this work. A rotating slot is less interesting than a place where it can live.
confirmed yet
The exhibition fund exists and the conversations will begin when the canvas is substantial enough to speak for itself. Buyers are funding that pursuit — as patrons of a work in progress, not passengers waiting to see where it lands.
edition
A limited archival print edition will be available to all buyers after the canvas closes — museum quality, numbered, with your coordinates marked. One size, one price, available to every contributor regardless of zone.
Your place
in the record.
Your x,y coordinates on this canvas are yours permanently — documented in a distributed ledger, verifiable by anyone at any time. That record cannot be edited, backdated, or removed.
What you're purchasing is a position in a work. The coordinates themselves are the thing of value — specific, unrepeatable, permanent. Not a membership, not a licence, not a speculation. A place in the record.
Centre coordinates near the exact middle of a historically significant artwork will never exist again. Every pixel claimed is one fewer available. The record, when complete, is fixed.