Avery Lake · 2026
Ontarïio’,Beautiful Lake
Rapid colour flickerAutoplay when permitted · Tap if paused
01 / The work
The lake holds its form. Everything around it changes.
Across winter, spring, summer, and fall, the surrounding land shifts through colour and flicker. The lake remains the stable element: one continuous body held inside a changing field.
Ontarïio’, Beautiful Lake is both a moving image and an act of record. The animation makes change visible. The mint gives the work a durable public inscription: its title, media, description, and renderer are fixed on-chain.
The blockchain is therefore not simply where the artwork is distributed. It is one of the materials from which the artwork is made.
The field changes. The water does not.
02 / The record
The inscription is part of the image.
Ontarïio’ is the Wendat form publicly given by Grand Chief Pierre Picard and confirmed in writing by the Wendat language service for the word carried into the name Ontario: “the lake is beautiful, great.” It is one linguistic lineage among several Indigenous naming traditions connected to this lake. The image itself carries no name. It asks what remains when names and identities are momentarily set aside: the lake remains.
Created and first recorded on Ethereum on 31 August 2026.
The artwork is therefore both image and inscription. The animation visualizes stability; the mint performs it in the public record.
Language context: Grand Chief Pierre Picard, public statement, 27 August 2026 · Wendat language service, written confirmation, 31 August 2026 · Wendat Nation leadership
- Status
- Minted · not offered for sale
- Date
- 31 August 2026
- Network
- Ethereum
- Platform
- Networked.art
- Contract
- 0x73bf…71c0
- Token
- ERC-721 · #13
- Media record
- IPFS · Qmdw4f…Vfw4
Created
03 / Details
Artwork information
- Artist
- Avery Lake
- Date
- August 2026
- Medium
- Single-channel digital video, silent; on-chain record
- Format
- 1080 × 1080 px, 10 seconds
- Presentation
- Seamless infinite loop
- Edition
- Unique 1/1
- Typography
- Radio-Canada · CBC/Radio-Canada, open font
Permanent provenance: Networked.art · token 13 · Ethereum transaction · IPFS artifact.
04 / Inquiries
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