The dissolved texts were drawn from a live source, updated on the hour, every hour. In their gathering stream, these tokens grew sticky tendrils towards potential neighbours, coagulating to form clots of recovered text. Popular clots finding numerous neighbours grew spidery forked tendrils as they competed to coalesce.
Commissioned by Christiane Paul for the open-source software art project CODeDOC II exhibited at Ars Electronica, Linz, 2003.