a mirror that can only see in text. your webcam, resampled every frame into the 95 printable characters of ascii — the same alphabet this whole site is built from.

no character here is shaped like a face — a "A" just carries more weight than a "." does. up close it's only marks sitting next to each other; the likeness only shows up once you stand back and stop counting them. the alphabet doing the sorting predates you: fixed in 1963, ninety-five slots, none cut to fit anyone in particular.

step away and it forgets you.