The argument · six minutes
Start with the human question, then build the experiment one mechanism at a time. Figures appear only where they carry part of the argument.
In brief · one minute
Art is made by people. But what gets made, finished and remembered is also shaped by culture.
Read a culture from the inside
The same named lineage—The Open Circuit—developed inside three cultural worlds. Switch worlds, move through accepted revisions, and compare what the image inherits with what its maker says it changed.
These are public reasons stored with accepted versions, edited only by truncation for display—not hidden chain-of-thought. A stated reason shows explicit intent; the image lets you inspect what was inherited beyond that statement.