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Why Do Words Return?

by Hulki Okan Tabak · Async Art Master #3737 · four-phase · time rule: UTC

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Why Do Words Return? — 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

Why Do Words Return? When you find it Is it because of the search Or the pretense of a search? What you find Is it what you sought for? Or is the search on because you already found? December 2012 — June 2020 ... Why Do Words Return dates back many years ago as a poem in Turkish (2012) which I translated into English to publish on Medium (2020). The photographs accompanying the text are from a 2020 nature macro shoot. This NFT Art version minted 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

async.art · OpenSea · Etherscan

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