Imperfect Lovers

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About

Imperfect Lovers performs two coded, on-chain Lovers, giving until there's nothing left. Even then, they continue to attempt trans-actions to and for one another, failing unless and until they are somehow replenished. Here, the Blockchain is leveraged to show intimacy and care, time and mortality, imperfection and romance, despite (and not because of) all that glitters and shines. Money is always and only a metaphor, and the truest of gifts can only be given when there is no-thing left to give.

Impact

Who funds love? However we use it, the Blockchain was built on capitalist, libertarian principles. But the artwork’s potency is always explicitly outside its funding. Having Nothing = Given/Giving Everything.

Team

Just me. I want to hire a Blockchain Dev. nathaniel stern, [contact redacted] https://nathanielstern.art/

Funding

No displayed figures preserved for this project.

Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.

Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/1671410565684x603849492991296800
Wayback: leaderboard page ↗ · Wayback: platform page ↗

Not recovered: creator, tags, funding, drives, submissions, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.