Eternal Return
A perpetual painting. Beginning November 9, 2026.
“What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: this life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more.”
Each Monday at midnight, a blank canvas opens. For seven days, anonymous collectors bid on an invisible auction. Every bid spawns a brush that paints autonomously—bristle by bristle, in real time, for anyone watching. Sunday at midnight the painting freezes, saves to archival print, ships to the winning bidder. Monday morning: blank canvas. The cycle never stops.
The piece runs on a custom GPU paint simulator—physically accurate pigment mixing via Kubelka-Munk theory, bristle physics, impasto layering. Each brush follows its own life cycle, born from a bid, dying when its paint runs dry. No two strokes alike. No painting reproducible.
The winning collector receives a single 150cm archival print on dibond, signed and shipped. The blockchain holds the score; the print holds the work. Fifty-two paintings a year, all descendants of the same blank canvas, all returning to it.
Each painting lives for seven days. Then it ends. Then it begins.
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We'll write to you once, when the first canvas opens.