Seven Times Not Kept

A click is not choosing the next image, but refusing the one before you. The old state immediately loses its central position, yet it does not disappear: it takes up a real piece of the viewport, and the new state can only continue in the remaining space. The more refusals there are, the harder it becomes for those that follow to remain whole.

The image is cut by shared boundaries into non-overlapping regions, rather than covering the same base picture with colored fragments. Each state brings polylines, arcs, truncated paths, or horizontal obstructions at a different scale; after losing the main position, they still maintain their own motion. Broken lines crossing the regions increase one by one in the order of refusal, so sequence is not only hidden in the address, but also pressed into the seams of the still image.

Clicking or pressing Enter or Space continues the refusals, up to seven times. The browser’s Back and Forward buttons withdraw or replay these refusals step by step; after a refresh, the path in the address can still reconstruct the current state. Pressing R rewrites only the current history node as the starting point, and pressing S downloads an SVG still frame of this moment.

After the seventh time, there is no completion prompt, and no better version appears. The page simply stops making new room for you. If you still want to change it, you can only go back, and acknowledge that that refusal has already become a page the browser remembers.