Kingdom of Null

Performance / NFT at Opensea

"Kingdom of Null consists of JPEG files whose internal structure has been manually altered at the level of hexadecimal code. Image headers, markers, and encoded data are selectively disrupted so that the files remain syntactically valid enough to be decoded, while no longer supporting a coherent or stable image. During decoding, these files yield transient visual states: partial images formed from incomplete, conflicting, or truncated data. The decoding process does not fail outright; instead, it produces unstable outputs whose appearance depends on the specific decoder, memory handling, and execution context in which they are processed. The images do not exist as fixed entities. They emerge only momentarily, at the point where decoding still proceeds despite the progressive breakdown of the file’s internal consistency. What appears on screen is not stored in the file itself, but generated contingently, as the system attempts to reconcile information that no longer fully aligns. These fleeting states cannot be preserved or replayed reliably. They are therefore recorded as screenshots, which function as the only durable traces of an image that exists solely during its own material degradation.