The 600k Project

Available for auction at opensea

The 600k Collage is a single image containing the profile pictures of 627,754 Twitter users. It is the largest piece of NFT artwork to ever be minted

Numbers are useful for doing a lot of things financial reports, population census, we invented numbers to take care of thinking in the abstract. But they’re just that — abstract, if I asked you to picture a 10 users online that’s pretty trivial, but what about a hundred ? a thousand ? how about a million ? at some point it becomes just a number, a statistic. This artwork represents a snapshot (a tiny one at that) of legit people (I took care to remove bot accounts), whenever you zoom into this artwork, you could think — the person behind this picture are they alive or dead ? How did 2020 work out for them ? Behind that anime cat girl profile is a person with a life as complicated as yours and mine. It’s about giving a face to the statistics.

The full image weighs about 450MB and has 55850x28100 dimensions. That’s big — about 600k netizens in a single image. In comparison back in 2019 the Hubble telescope over a period of 16 years constructed a picture containing 265,000 galaxies; that picture had a resolution of 25500×25500