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Is That a Whale?

by Hulki Okan Tabak · Async Art Master #2623 · four-phase · time rule: UTC

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Is That a Whale? — its states with their hours

Sunrise 06:00–06:59 · Day 07:00–17:59 · Sunset 18:00–18:59 · Night 19:00–05:59 (UTC)

About the work

Staring at an alien landscape, you wonder if the actual alien is the place or you yourself. Looking outward because you can't look the other way, you spot a figure familiar from books of some other childhood. There in the distance to your right, or whatever direction this strange place permits, swims a big figure of folk and lore alike. You can't contain the excitement. You can ignore the people supposedly serious stern sharp shipshape indeed around you. You can not ignore yourself. You shout. You shout inadvertently. IS THAT A WHALE? Minted 2021 on Async Art by Hulki Okan Tabak Based on photographs of things and places. Edited to abstraction through age and tear. Refigured reconfigured…

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: 5; our own copy, pinned by us and verified on upload: 5.

The 11 files, one by one

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