NFT artist Emily Yang finds the crypto space empowering for women

'I saw a way to marry my own skill set with crypto knowledge and make myself valuable and useful in the space out of purely a need to create some kind of income for myself,' says Yang. Photo: Handout

Digital artist and NFT virtuoso Emily Yang joined Variety and the Kering Foundation at the Cannes Film Festival for an inspiring Women In Motion conversation on Friday, just ahead of the final day of the festival's 75th edition.

In just over two years, Yang went from being on unemployment insurance to becoming a rockstar in the NFT-driven digital art space under the handle @pplpleasr. Yang, who designed the April cover of Vogue magazine's Taiwan edition, has used the proceeds of the sales of her artwork to set up the Stand With Asians Community Fund as well as an NFT collective for charitable work.