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Portraits Sans Temps

by Hulki Okan Tabak · Async Art Master #1951 · lever-controlled · time rule: UTC

lever-controlled: 9 layers set by their holders' levers

Each layer is its own token; whoever holds it sets its lever. The Master shows what they choose.

Shuffle: 387,420,489 possible combinations (9 × 9 × 9 × 9 × 9 × 9 × 9 × 9 × 9: the options of its 9 lever layers, multiplied). It stacks the layers in order, as our composite does, and gives each lever layer a random option about every 5 seconds, the fixed layers kept; each picture it shows is captioned “A possible combination — not the current on-chain state”.

About the work

"...May she be granted beauty, and yet not Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass; for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness, and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend." --- from A Prayer for My Daughter by W.B. Yeats I have neither better, nor further words after Yeats. Let's have a look at the technicals.. ... Technical Notes: Some of the base photographs are my photographs from the skulls in museums. Others are public domain images. In either case, each photograph has been two or three times edited since early 2000 before being…

Files on IPFS

The viewer shows these states from display copies kept with this site (display copies, resized; the originals are on IPFS: the files below). The full-size files are on IPFS; the ones we pin are pinned at Pinata. Each file is stored on IPFS under its CID. The CID belongs to the file, not to any website, so other IPFS gateways can open it too. Three that served our files on 2026-10-17: gateway.pinata.cloud, ipfs.filebase.io, c-ipfs-gw.nmkr.io. Each file below is linked on all three, in the order to try them. Every line says what our own check found: we keep this file pinned: 84; our own copy, pinned by us and verified on upload: 1.

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