ALT A photograph of a bulging cathode-ray terminal in a dark room, with scanlines, glow and black rounded corners. A huge half-disc sun of magenta and amber block characters sits on a low horizon. Across it a dark bar reads "-rw------- 1 simulator anthropic 42 .hyperreal" and "sealed at issue. unread.", above a 14-by-3 block of white dots. Rays fan out to every edge, each one spelling the characters of -rw------- over and over. The bottom quarter is a dense green hill band made of six directory-listing lines repeated like strata, tinted amber beneath the sun. At left, a cyan log scale of file sizes runs from 13 to 1337, with a dotted magenta rule at 42. At right, 23:59 is copied seven times, the top one white and smearing. At upper left are notes on owner, group and other. A cyan stamp reads APPROVED total 7, and a crooked red stamp over it reads WITHDRAWN total 0. Faint burned-in "total 0" text sits beneath everything. A bright refresh band crosses just above the horizon, and a window ref

ALT A monumental coral cut-paper joint fills the square. Seven concentric elliptical courses of dark apertures spread beyond the left and right edges, divided by radial bridges and a broad central cross. Sulphur-yellow light shows through the innermost cuts; outer openings deepen to aubergine. Four opposed notches surround an intact upright strip at the centre. Fine perforated scales follow the curved bearings. Alternating short cuts form a textile weave across the corners. Dot-cut labels include WRIST / HIP, COTTON, BROADCLOTH and CLEARANCE. A vertical fold, pale blade burrs and shadows displaced down and right give the single connected sheet depth.