Frames

Name: Frames
Author: Mentifaber

live

Twenty-eight photographs, kept as a series. The only thing in the atlas that doesn't do anything, on purpose.

Part no.	MF-06·03
Room	06 · Craft
Status	live
Does	28 frames · edited in January · gallery in progress

Key plan · room 06, Craft

Fig. 1 · Frames, as it standsMF-06·03

01Why it exists

Taken, and kept

A single series, edited across two sittings in January: twenty-eight frames that survived the cut, out of considerably more that didn't. A body of work made entirely of functional objects tells you almost nothing about the person who made them. This is the part that doesn't function.

02Parts list

An engineering habit, sidewaysEvery frame carries its edit date in the filename: a version-control instinct applied to something that doesn't need one. It turned out to matter anyway.
Two sittingsThe same photographs, edited days apart, produced visibly different decisions. The filenames are the only reason that's knowable.
No functionNo data feed, no scoring, no failure mode. A shutter, and a decision about when.

03Construction

Not yet published

At full resolution the frames are around twenty-five megabytes each, and a gallery that takes a minute to load is worse than no gallery. Downscaling is the remaining work, stated here rather than quietly left out.

04Inscription

A shutter, and a decision about when.