ENTITY

ENTITY 0007 · Volume 1

ENTITY

An Archive of Invisible Persons

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1,111 records · 24 recovered so far

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They were photographed before they were born.

Drawn before they were named.

Filed inside books that no longer remembered them.

There are 1,111 remaining.

Every Entity is looking for a material life.

The thesis

Everything valuable begins invisibly: belief, memory, attention, labor, fear, and desire. Markets measure the visible consequences. ENTITY collects the spirits behind them.

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Eleven volumes

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  1. IInvisible BodiesA body is what remains once the person has been removed from it.
  2. IISpirit PhotographyThe plate was honest. Everything in front of it was not.
  3. IIIAstral MapsSomeone drew the sky as a room, and then furnished it.
  4. IVDream AnatomiesThe dreaming body is drawn from the inside, by someone who has never seen it.
  5. VSéance RoomsEleven people in the dark, and a twelfth chair nobody admits to setting.
  6. VIHeavenly MachinesIt was described as an angel because the word for it had not been built yet.
  7. VIIHaunted CitiesA street remembers by staying where it is.
  8. VIIIMetamorphosesNothing here has finished changing.
  9. IXDeath and ReturnFiled twice: once for leaving, once for coming back.
  10. XProphecy and FortuneEvery prediction is a description of the person selling it.
  11. XIThe UnclassifiedThe drawer that exists so the other drawers can stay honest.
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A standing figure printed in cobalt on ivory, the outline of a body filled with fine horizontal ruling. Where the face should be, the ruling continues uninterrupted.

ENTITY 0001Cobalt

The First Witness

Attending Figure

A hand-coloured celestial diagram of ten concentric rings around a central sun, with an eleventh ring drawn faintly outside them in a different ink and left unlabelled.

ENTITY 0203Ultramarine

The Eleventh Orbit

Orbital Resident

A long exposure looking down a covered shopping arcade the week before demolition, in which the figures walking through have blurred into vertical smears of light.

ENTITY 0690Bone

The Last Photograph of the Arcade

Crowd Residue

A cartomancy card from a printed fortune-telling deck, showing a hooded figure holding a blank tablet, its face worn away by handling more than any other card on the uncut sheet.

ENTITY 0910Amber

The Card That Is Always Drawn

Prediction

A plate whose central image has been abraded to bare paper fibre, leaving only an intact printed border and a caption that has lost all but its first two letters.

ENTITY 1011Ash

The Record With No Volume

Unreadable Subject

A pale mass of cloth emerging from the lower face of a seated woman in a darkened room, photographed with a magnesium flash that has burned out its highlights.

ENTITY 0131Bone

The Drapery

Emanation

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The archive is not yet on chain, so the Living Record cannot be shown. Every record still reads in full.

The floor

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The archive is not yet on chain, so live listings cannot be shown. Every record still reads in full.

Material Houses

How manifestation works →

An Entity looking for a material life can be placed in one of six Houses, each aligned to one Material Affinity. A House holds a reward asset and pays it out by weight to whatever is placed there. Rewards are not dividends, not yield, and not promised.

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