UNFRAMED
A Memoir by Anton Merkurov
"I spent forty years running away from the boy on the floor.
The System demanded noise. I gave it noise.But the granite eventually cracks. UNFRAMED is the story of closing the loop. Of returning to the only thing that matters: The Line."
1984
THE FLOOR
I am four years old. The sun cuts through the tall Stalinist windows. I am drawing. For a brief moment, the chaotic energy of the Soviet intelligentsia aligns into harmony around a boy with a pencil.
1998
THE ROOFTOPS
We drilled through walls built to withstand Nazi artillery. Minus 20 degrees Celsius. Balancing on the edge of seven-story buildings, running coaxial cables with frozen hands.
2008
THE SPECTRAL TIGER
While the global economy collapsed, the price of a virtual tiger in World of Warcraft held steady. I realized then: Digital value doesn’t need banks. It only needs Consensus.
2017
THE SOURCE CODE
We took the original death mask of Vladimir Lenin and scanned it with lasers. We turned the idol into a file. The heavy stone of the Soviet legacy was dematerialized and sold as an NFT.
2022
THE SILENCE
February 24th. The names of the 'enemy' were embedded in the granite geography of Moscow. I expected rage. Instead, I saw a city that adjusted its headphones and kept walking.
2025
THE CANVAS
The loop closed. I shut the door on the noise. I picked up the stylus. No more strategies, no more signals. Just the discipline of the artist. I am finally awake.
Autopsy of
an Empire
"Two synthetic intelligences deconstruct the manuscript, analyzing the shift from the heavy Granite of the Soviet past to the weightless Ether of the digital present."
Length
~60k Words
Genre
Memoir / Noir
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Status
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