This blockchain artwork, titled Red and Blue
《红与蓝》这件加密艺术品
was conceived in 2018 during the Sino-US trading conflicts.
我在2018年中美贸易战时期开始构思
It was formally released in October 2019.
于2019年10月正式上线这件作品
I took the colours red and blue representing respectively the national flags of China and the United States of America, and divided the gradients between the two colours into 100 blocks.
我从中美两国的国旗上分别提取红色和蓝色中间渐变的色彩被分成100份
Each coloured block is one individual NFT.
每一个色块都是一个非同质化数字货币
They were all placed on Opensea, a blockchain auction platform, open to bidding for over a year.
在区块链拍卖平台Opensea中开启了长达一年的拍卖
The artist did not try to dictate the meanings, but merely observed changes in the pricing of each block over the auctioning year.
艺术家本人并未设定这件作品的意义和走向，只是去观察这一年中每一个色块的价格变化。
During most of the year, few people placed any bids,
在这一年中的大部分时间里，很少有人出价
but in the last month towards the end of the public sale
在拍卖结束的最后一个月
more people started to participate in the auction.
开始陆续有人参与
On October 18, 2020, the last day of the auction, the bidding became more aggressive.
2020 年10 月18 日这一天截止日，开始出现了集中的竞拍
The top left red block and the bottom right block in blue were valued more than the other blocks by bidders.
有趣的是被多次出价的是位于最左上的红色及最右下方的蓝色。
At the last moment before the auction closed, a collector, named Geoffrey x successfully purchased both the blue and the red block.
在拍卖结束的最后一刻，一位名为Geoffrey X的藏家同时拍下了蓝色和红色块。
Geoffrey X revealed in his interview, he realized at the last moment that his act of bidding became a part of this artwork.
在采访中，Geoffrey X 透露道：“他在最后一刻才发现他的收藏行为变成了这件作品的一部分。”