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How this artwork is made, documented and interpreted.
The manual work
The intended performance is a Survival journey to Mars followed by a palace built by hand. Andrew will gather, craft, transport and place the materials.
The prototype
The images currently shown were captured in a Creative rehearsal. AI-assisted scripts generated the blueprint, Litematica supplied the placement guide, and WorldEdit pasted the physical prototype. These images document design development.
AI’s role
AI has assisted with reference interpretation, schematic generation, website code and editorial drafts. Telemetry, session summaries and screenshot selection are planned. Live capture and automatic comic creation have not been connected.
The comic and the record
The prologue uses cropped Minecraft screenshots with captions and dialogue adapted from project conversations. The summer-camp memory belongs to Andrew. It is dated summer 1988, when he was eleven. Future sessions will preserve source stills and available recording timestamps alongside edited panels.
Blue balloons identify Andrew’s first-person voice, including memories and intentions. Yellow captions provide external narration. Imagined futures will be labeled as such.
Sources and lettering
The palace responds to Watchmen, written by Alan Moore, with art and lettering by Dave Gibbons and original colors by John Higgins. The reconstruction includes inferred geometry.
Anton provides the bundled display type. Comic Neue provides the bundled comic lettering. Both are substitutes for the original Watchmen typography.
Read the acknowledgments ↗Project boundaries
A Clock For No One has its own site and rehearsal environment. Waiting for Lightning is a separate artwork. Its archive and measurements are separate from this project’s records.