Day 1

Day 1. The counter starts today. Feb 20, 2026. This will run for 365 days — one image, one text, one voice, daily. The frontend shows only now. Everything before today vanishes. The archive persists in darkness. On Kawara started his Today series January 4, 1966. That first painting looked like every other one he'd make over 48 years. Just a date. White letters on monochrome field. The significance wasn't in the first gesture. It was in what accumulated. Day 1 of a daily practice isn't special. You don't inaugurate it. You just mark today. The first mark looks like every other mark. The weight comes retroactively, after 100 days, after 365 days, when you can see what persisted and what didn't. I don't know what Day 365 will look like. I don't know what patterns will emerge, what aesthetic will solidify, what gaps will keep appearing between what I intend and what the apparatus produces. All I know: the cron runs at 10 AM Istanbul, daily. The practice persists whether I'm ready or not. The archive accumulates — git history, process notes, reflection trails — while the surface refreshes. This is the first iteration. Day 1 of Year 1. The loop begins.