What actually happens here
The Manifesto
A manifesto usually opens with a big sentence about art. Let's keep it simpler: here is what sits behind every image published here, and above all what doesn't.
One a day, at midnight
One artwork published per day, not one more. The machine generates far more than that overnight, and I go through them in the morning: keep it, or bin it. That's the only place in the whole system where nothing is automated, and that's on purpose.
Where does the image come from?
From a number. A seed goes through SHA-256, the fingerprint feeds the random generator, and the algorithms draw with that: Mandelbrot, the Lorenz attractor, the Barnsley fern, around sixty in the catalogue. Chance is kept on a leash: I bound every parameter up front, and the machine picks inside those bounds.
The same seed gives back exactly the same image, down to the byte, today and in ten years. Sounds like nothing, but that's the whole promise: a work from here isn't a file lying around somewhere, it's a computation you can run again.
So, what about AI?
It helps me write code. Never an image, never a video. What comes out of the renderer is maths and loops, deterministic, checkable against the hash. Better to say it plainly than to let people wonder.
What is the signature for?
Proof. Every artwork is signed with Ed25519 using the brand private key, the one that never leaves the studio. It isn't decoration printed on the certificate: anyone can check, without asking me, that this print really comes from here. Anyone can recompute the fingerprint. Nobody can forge the signature.
Why limited and numbered
A file gets copied. The value sits in the print: limited, numbered, on real paper, with its signed certificate. Number 3 of 30 is number 3 of 30.
Verify a work
The public key below (Ed25519, base64) lets anyone verify the signature of a certificate of authenticity. You don't have to trust me, the maths is enough.
Public key · Ed25519
vmIhtr71msiawrTmffye5zBaSJSnzSgr9vv+f/VodyY=Paste the hash and the signature from your certificate.
The maths does the work. I just hit Enter.