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Futile Encounters of a Steep Kind

by Hulki Okan Tabak · Async Art Master #3659 · four-phase · time rule: UTC

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Futile Encounters of a Steep Kind — 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

"The master builder acknowledges this As do the artists in their dormer rooms eternal banishment Who are usually grateful to anyone who prevents them from taking a false step And having reached the summit would like to stay there even if the stairs are withdrawn" ---from The Blue Stairs by Barbra Guest ... Public domain stairs photographs gently but significant restructured and reimagined for this artwork about ... ... ... ... Futile Encounters of a Steep Kind by Hulki Okan Tabak September 2021 on Async Art

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: 1.

The 11 files, one by one

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