Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said that anyone who has visions should go to the doctor.

You don't have to be so averse to those who look beyond the boundaries of the factual to find astonishing what the wife of the former American President Donald Trump sells as "Melania's vision".

The First Lady wants nothing less than a “message of hope” a.

D. to carry it out into the world as you say: "My vision is: To look forward with inspiration, strength and courage."

Ursula Scheer

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To see what Melania Trump has in mind, you have to take her own perspective in front of a mirror - or that of someone else who is fixated on her.

The former first lady has gone under the art dealers after she had recently made herself publicly rare.

And the first work she has offered for sale online is a watercolor by the artist Marc-Antoine Coulon, which depicts the “cobalt blue eyes” of the previous model.

The coup with this self-referential, artistically not particularly exciting interpretation of the visions theme, which exhibits what Melania sees when she looks at herself, is of course a different one: “Melania's vision” is sold as an NFT, as a non-fungible token .

Is it about art or money?

The native Slovenian is jumping on the bandwagon of crypto speculation, which hit the art market this year and where not only serious digital artists and dealers but also all kinds of gamblers, self-marketers and tech freaks drive. For NFT, non-exchangeable digital tokens that are stored on blockchains, collectors call for breathtaking prices: They are available as virtual certificates of ownership for physical or digital objects, which in this way become collector's items.

Critics ask: is the NFT boom just about money and no longer about art? The former First Lady strikes a completely different, high note. The “breathtaking” eye watercolor is said to represent her “enlightening” journey through life, which took her from Europe to America, where the “beauty and hardness of individuals, majestic landscapes and important architecture entered her field of vision and stayed in her heart” . This is what it says on the melaniatrump.com website. The image of their eyes should be an “amulet of inspiration” for its owners, which gives “strength and hope”. To see it that way, you really have to be visionary.

Melania Trumps' office says she will offer NFT art at regular intervals in the future.

The first picture is available as a limited edition until the end of December, the associated NFTs are embossed on the Solana blockchain and issued at a price of around $ 180.

That's a startlingly small amount in the NFT business.

A “one-time auction of historical importance” with further art will follow in January.

Melania Trump writes that "a portion" of the proceeds from sales on her NFT platform should go to children.

How much, of course, was left open.