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.”
BEST BEFORE Nº274
BEST BEFORE Nº274, Q, a generative HTML artwork by Lemonhaze × Ordinally, inscribed on Bitcoin. Watch the live work and explore its life in blocks.
Q
Open the live artwork to see its current state and countdown. Each activation starts a life measured in Bitcoin blocks.
1800 × 3200 · Generative HTML
View inscriptionPreview state: expired. The live work determines its current state.