Germinal

Small and precise beats large and vague — always.

Germinal is modelled on the germinal centre — the place in your body where immune cells refine themselves. A B-cell recognises a threat, mutates only the part that matters, and the best-fitting versions survive to become memory.

You have already done this. Choosing a partner. Raising a child. Inheriting a way of seeing. Selective attention, refinement, survival of what fits — the same mechanism at the molecular, human, and cultural scale.

This canvas makes that process visible at the scale of collective attention. The biology isn't decoration — it's the actual logic of how the canvas evolves.

Every lasso is a quiet prediction: this will still matter to strangers, generations from now.

Precision wins. A tiny region that fully survives scores far more than a broad one that half-fades. Distance multiplies. A stranger three generations removed independently choosing your region counts more than your direct recipient. Decay is real. If future contributors release what you chose, your score falls. Time proves you right or wrong.

Each canvas state is unique and unrepeatable. They go to timed auction — the winner receives an exclusive license to produce one physical print. Edition of 1, never reproduced.

You can bid on a canvas that doesn't yet exist — a date that matters, shaped by everyone between now and then. 20% of every sale flows back to contributors by affinity score.

Every shared canvas feeds a single mother display — a continuously evolving aggregate of all human attention on the canvas. The collective made visible, updated in real time.

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