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.”
Learning how
to make it alive.
A conversation between an artist and a builder. A summer of starting over. A painting that would eventually have a life of its own.
Read the visual diary“All I needed was for
the work to be alive.”
The first sketch carried an expiry date at the bottom. The visual language was still unresolved. Through the summer, Lemonhaze rebuilt it in vanilla JavaScript, sharing iterations with Ordinally as textures, movement and colour began to come together.
A breakthrough in August brought a new set of textures into BEST BEFORE. The work became the result of that exchange: intuitive painting, careful engineering, and a shared willingness to take more time.
LEMONHAZE · VISUAL DIARY · AUGUST 20, 2025What if it could end?
On April 29, 2025, a first message proposed artworks with an expiration date. The contrast was there from the beginning: Bitcoin’s permanence and a human life’s uncertainty.
The first conversationFinding the painting.
Sketch, render, look again. Colour palettes, swirls, layered textures and subtle movement were developed through months of iteration.
The visual diaryGiving it a life.
Ordinally connected the work to Bitcoin. The collector’s activation determines its visual identity and lifespan; each new block moves that life forward.
When the clock startsTHE PROCESS IS STILL VISIBLEA work takes shape
A work takes shape
every time you visit.
Open a work and watch its colours and textures build. The living artwork renders from its inscription, in front of you.