Bubbles is my out-of-time NFT collection, presented during my solo exhibition Ho fatto tardi at SMDOT. I created it in 2022, in a moment that already passed, or maybe never really happened, when ownership felt stable and speculation looked like a shared language.

Each work is a loop, a digital bubble that exists, floats, holds. Buying one bubble does not mean owning it, it means owning the possibility of losing it.

Every bubble carries a calculated risk, a probability assigned at the moment of minting; twice a day a small blockchain lottery extracts sequences of letters and checks them against each bubble. If nothing happens, the bubble remains; if the condition is met, the bubble bursts.

When it does, the certification disappears while the file, the image and its documentation remain available. The collector keeps everything except the thing that was actually owned.

I designed it as a simple mechanism: a lottery without spectacle, a contract where the outcome is not gain but the verification of loss. With Bubbles, I do not ask what it means to collect, I slightly adjust what it means to keep.