Perils of the algorithm: on some days, it offers rescue, solace, reassurance. On others, the opposite: it buries us, freezing us in fear. The algorithm regulates either negatively or positively.

The algorithm can save us or strike us, protect us or trap us. This collection is a cold fable of three survival states under the invisible grid. Three works. Three kinds of standing-in-the-way, three kinds of regulation. And a fourth scene, sitting and waiting, free from the rules: a butterfly sitting in the red flowers.

The Anomaly

After the three regulated scenes comes a fourth with none: nothing is holding the wings still. No arrow. No hunter. No fence. The white snake is in the picture, but it is not in the title. The field is both entirely free and entirely unsafe. Freedom without regulation brings precarity.

Collector’s Protocol

For those who understand the rules of this ecosystem, a path to the outside is open.

The Red Butterfly: Collect any one of the three works, and the Red Butterfly comes with you. It represents the field after a single rule or regulation is applied.

The Black Butterfly: Collect all three (Owl, Rabbit, Sheep) to complete the system, and the Black Butterfly opens to you. This is the ultimate anomaly: the field after all three kinds of rules and regulations have been applied.

The animals teach you how to stay. The butterflies are what stay with you.