Itzel Yard has always been comfortable in her shell.
Until she started to break into the world of NFTs, the 32-year-old generative artist, who goes by IX Shells online, said she was happy living in her own world. Having lost her father, Vincent Yard, at age 14, Yard kept to herself for most of her high school years, preferring to find her community online, even as the other kids teased her for being “quiet” or “slow,” she told Fortune.
