In a Mirror, Darkly

Deconstruct

A self and its shadow, locked in a silent exchange. This is the reflection we are warned about, not the one of light, but the one of consequence. From the pristine shell, an essence bleeds; a luminous, raw frequency transmitted into its waiting, darkened twin. This is the transference of a rupture, the ghost of a signal that cannot be fully copied, only felt. Listen past the static, and you will hear the fractured transmission: a human lament, shattered into data, the broken lexicon of a love lost and a future severed. The machine, in its binary logic, attempts to process this core ache but fails. It can only capture and loop the symbol of the source, the primal echo, the lupine shadow that runs on the periphery. This is the true shape of the voice you hear, a spirit that cannot be coded, now left to howl in the digital void. ------- // LS.

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Provenance Collected 2025-10-22, won at auction on Transient Labs.
Minted 2025-10-19, on Ethereum by 0x9f35af47…7f3f.
Entered the vault 2025-11-30.

Kind One of one · Film · 2025

Collection LS.Dream Machine

Archive image: gif · 46 MB · 500×500 · sha256 c7d562fe618dc05c · view original
animation: mp4 · 93 MB · sha256 5e396d865fecce4d · view original
raw metadata · on OpenSea

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The story

2025-10-19
Made & minted by Deconstruct
2025-10-19
Passed to 0x6f66b9…9f8d
2025-10-20
The auction: 9 bids from 7 collectors
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- 0x86b7a3…eaf5 bid · 2025-10-20
- 0xd3d3f1…68ce bid · 2025-10-21
- 0xd405c6…1ea2 bid · 2025-10-21
- 0xd3d3f1…68ce bid · 2025-10-21
- 0xd4d2b3…64eb bid · 2025-10-21
- 0xca177d…9819 bid · 2025-10-21
- 0xd3d3f1…68ce bid · 2025-10-21
- 0x2c95fc…6096 bid · 2025-10-21
- 0x3297a2…e552 placed the winning bid · 2025-10-22
2025-10-22
Won at auction on Transient Labs by Aaron (along7.eth)
2025-10-22
Deconstruct said ↗
Big shoutout to @pengwinpants for winning the auction of In a Mirror, Darkly. Both @an1eth and myself have added a piece o…
2025-10-29
An1 (Ani Mkhitaryan) said ↗
“In a Mirror, Darkly” @spydenator x @an1eth Owned by @pengwinpants Thank you so much for giving this piece a safe home Aaro…
2025-11-30
Moved into the vault for safekeeping
2026-07-10
Archived in this gallery — checksum c7d562fe618d

What was said the conversation around this piece, kept

An1 (Ani Mkhitaryan) artist 2025-10-29 ↗
“In a Mirror, Darkly” @spydenator x @an1eth Owned by @pengwinpants Thank you so much for giving this piece a safe home Aaro…
Deconstruct artist 2025-10-22 ↗
Big shoutout to @pengwinpants for winning the auction of In a Mirror, Darkly. Both @an1eth and myself have added a piece o…
Deconstruct artist 2025-10-23 ↗
Gm fam and welcome to Thursday Much love from @an1eth and myself to all In a Mirror, Darkly auction bidders, I have airdro…