01View work ↗Totem #1
2022 · 26 states
Performance auctionLiving imageCollective authorship
The TotemProject
An improvised artwork made in public. Every bid changes the image. The last bidder takes the living record home.
Enter the collectionFounded by Sirius Crocodile
Solana · 2022
01 / The collection
Eleven living
monuments.
The original Sirius Crocodile Totems established the project’s visual language and its public performance protocol on Solana.
See all eleven Totems01View work ↗
02View work ↗Totem #2
2022 · 20 states
03View work ↗Totem #3
2022 · 14 states
04View work ↗Totem #4
2022 · 13 states
02 / The living archive
The image
keeps its history.
The final image is only one page. The Totem archive keeps the ground state, every live intervention, and the finished work together.
Recorded state01 / 26
The original series · recovered states
Totem #126 remembered states.
Move through the image as the room made it. The archive restores the ground state, every intervention, and the final work that marketplaces usually flatten into a single frame.
Open the complete artwork record →Ground state
03 / The premise
The auction begins
unfinished.
The bidding decides what it becomes.
Every bid adds a block, a mark, a character, or a fragment drawn from the bidder’s public identity. Sirius Crocodile improvises live. Collectors determine the rhythm. No one knows the final image before the auction ends.
The winner receives the resulting work; every participant remains part of its history. What appears to be a digital sculpture is also a social document, written through public on-chain actions.
01Begin empty
The work is revealed as an open ground.
02Bid becomes form
Each collector action changes the image.
03Winner remains
The final state and its history leave together.
04 / How a Totem grows
Try our
mock auction.
This reconstruction turns the original Totem Simulator into a lightweight, interactive explanation. Advance the auction to see one image become a sequence.
Current auction state
Ground state
Highest bid—
No bids yet01 / 05
The auction opens on an unfinished image. Its next state does not yet exist.
06 / A living future
From marketplace
to institution.
The next platform will host the performance, preserve every state, and settle ownership across marketplaces.
Archive the foundations
Resolve decentralized media and recover historical metadata states from the original Solana mints.
Run the performance here
A live auction room will publish and preserve each new image as bids arrive.
Unify the record
Every Totem—original and collaboration—held in one archive of states, bids and owners, independent of any single marketplace.
The work is alive while we are here.