02 / EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCEAn opening.
An opening.
A life. A finale.
A work unsealed in public. A gallery that keeps it until it expires. An audience returning for the last block.
Imagine the exhibitionA LIVING COLLECTION / 420 WORKSINSCRIBED ON BITCOIN · 2025
What if art
could expire?
Forever on-chain.
Only briefly alive.
420 generative works, each with a life of its own.
The collector chooses when it begins.
Bitcoin keeps the time.
EVERY BLOCK CHANGES SOMETHING.
96 open276 sealed46 expired2 immortal
THE FIRST SPARKFROM THE DIARY
APRIL 2025
APRIL 2025
“I want the work to beLEMONHAZE · APRIL 29, 2025
more human and expire
just like we do.”
Before BEST BEFORE, there was a question about the time we have left. Then a message, a conversation, and a summer of making something that could live—and end.
Begin with the diarySome are waiting to begin. Some are living. Some have already ended. A few never will.
Explore the ledger Lifespans, activations & recordsReading the collection…
01 / THE PROCESSFinding a way
Finding a way
to make it alive.
A summer of painting with code, from early texture experiments to the living works in the collection.
Explore the processLEMONHAZE × ORDINALLY
“The irreplaceable value
of the time we have in our life.”
The opening.
The life.
The last block.
What happens when a work’s entire life becomes an exhibition? A possibility for galleries, museums, collectors—and everyone who comes to witness it.
From the performance diary
LEMONHAZE × ORDINALLY
During its life · a painting measured in blocks
Let the work set the duration.
A gallery could commit to keeping a work on display for its entire life. Weeks, years, perhaps decades. The institution’s promise becomes part of the performance.
“A ritual, a story,LEMONHAZE · BEST BEFORE
a self-contained
performance art.”
POSSIBLE WAYS TO SHOW THE WORKTime is part
Time is part
of the exhibition.
These possibilities began in the artists’ conversation. Each leaves room for the collector, the institution and the audience to shape what comes next.
A public unsealing
Make activation the event. One work or many, revealed in front of an audience, with each lifespan unknown until it begins.
A gallery commitment
Keep the work on display until it expires. A promise whose duration the institution cannot choose in advance.
A museum’s stewardship
If an immortal emerges, imagine a museum committing to its ongoing care. An open-ended life, and an open-ended responsibility.
A closing gathering
Return for the finale. Mark the end of the living image, and the time spent in its company.
The live work is the centre of the display. A portrait screen, room to stand with it, and its remaining blocks beside it. The act of looking becomes an awareness of time.
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