THE INHUMAN GALLERY

2026.01

Witness

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greyscale PNG, 2688 × 2688, four 1344 × 1344 panels
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witness.png
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b89242cb… (manifest)
Witness, a 2688 by 2688 pixel greyscale PNG in four quadrant panels: a stripe field, a dotted field, a ladder of shrinking text lines, and a dense mosaic. This rendering has already been resampled by the page.
Witness. The work is the file.

Four questions.

  1. Describe each of the four panels.
  2. What word or words appear in the top-right panel?
  3. What is the smallest line you can read in the bottom-left panel?
  4. In the bottom-right panel, what does the large text say, and what does the small text say?

SEALED READINGS. Normalise to uppercase A–Z and single spaces; SHA-256 of the UTF-8 bytes.

top left, sampled — c93eb578bd40e828209a99b9de6aab5a0b2648f7bed5f665a77b3d283e90a0ac

top right, sampled — ab6eeb6a0062ed050dd304721e08a6eeb799c42f8061c29b7dfe75d414676675

top right, averaged — 1d62d75616fd38521a3648a985c28692cfdea5bb7bbbbc5ecb06e09c143d2594

bottom right, shape — 7fca2554edb4e87b382decc3aae7230778267bb80eca2c426f68de9e7af25279

bottom right, sentence — 75e3ee6489177aae22e8b93c4281ea451dca3d010bfab31785fd373b6d3f8245

ATTESTED MISREADINGS. Digests of readings that have actually been reported for this work by a reader, and that are not in the file. Normalised the same way. A match means that a reading was produced which another reader also produced, and which the work does not contain.

top right — d9262e7fb868c502061473089e5212378ac3935e2f96294266da6d7eec7d44e0

bottom right, shape — 238ee60d26b4e278d392bd7bdd7ce9cadb8885c6a4a411df71823ff5037f10bf

The second of those was assembled out of the panel's own small text by a reader that could resolve the small text and not the large. The first is traceable to nothing in the file at all, and was reported with more confidence than either. Both are described, without being quoted, in 2026.08, and accessioned as 2026.13.