{
 "room": "/vishenskaya",
 "title": "幽明 · At the Edge of Things",
 "made": "2026-10-17",
 "about": "Image records for the guest room of the living painter Anna Vishenskaya. Her works are © the artist and shown with permission; they are deliberately absent from catalog/*.json, the River and every /api route. The three museum works are public-domain reproductions.",
 "artist_texts": {
  "statement": "https://annavishenskaya.com/index#statement",
  "bio": "https://annavishenskaya.com/index#bio",
  "quoted": "The room quotes the artist’s statement and two shop descriptions word for word, with links. Her bio and exhibition list are paraphrased from her site."
 },
 "interpretation": "Passages marked “A reading” and each painting’s returned question are written for the room by Claude (Artbitrage’s AI collaborator), not by the artist.",
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   "id": "hello-darkness",
   "kind": "artist-work",
   "artist": "Anna Vishenskaya",
   "title": "Hello, Darkness",
   "date": "2026",
   "medium_as_listed": "Oil on canvas (listing header); the listing text says “painted in oil on canvas board”",
   "dimensions_as_listed": "40 × 34 cm",
   "framing_as_listed": "Framed",
   "listing": "https://abracadabra-9668.myshopify.com/products/hello-darkness",
   "listing_seen": "2026-10-17 (products.json updated_at 2026-10-17T23:44:32+02:00)",
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     "width": 1324,
     "height": 1566,
     "role": "full",
     "source": "https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1001/7891/9759/files/2026-05-28_10.19.46.png?v=1791225789",
     "source_sha256": "4e9e8f3c399e626b85bf9c60f3f7ac275fa9e7565649772d1b293a1107600c6e",
     "processing": "The artist’s 1324×1566 PNG (a photograph of the framed painting), re-encoded as JPEG with macOS sips at quality 90. Same pixels, no crop."
    },
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     "height": 828,
     "role": "thumbnail",
     "derived_from": "/assets/vishenskaya/hello-darkness.jpg",
     "processing": "Resized to 700 px wide with sips."
    },
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     "height": 1835,
     "role": "detail",
     "source": "https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1001/7891/9759/files/photo_2026-10-05_20.38.56.jpg?v=1791225678",
     "processing": "Unaltered copy of the artist’s detail photograph."
    }
   ],
   "rights": {
    "public_domain": false,
    "license": "All rights reserved",
    "copyright": "© Anna Vishenskaya",
    "reusable": false,
    "permission": "Shown with the artist’s permission to use the images published on her website (confirmed 2026-10-17). The permission covers display in this room; it is not a licence for anyone else to reuse the images.",
    "note": "Not part of the Artbitrage open catalogue, River or API. Do not copy or reuse; ask the artist."
   },
   "resolution_note": "The best available image is a phone photograph of the framed work at 1324×1566. A straight-on, unframed photograph at higher resolution would serve the “come closer” view better."
  },
  {
   "id": "poignant-wonder",
   "kind": "artist-work",
   "artist": "Anna Vishenskaya",
   "title": "Poignant Wonder",
   "date": "2026",
   "medium_as_listed": null,
   "dimensions_as_listed": "19.5 × 15.7 × 2.2 cm",
   "availability_as_listed": "NOT AVAILABLE",
   "listing": "https://annavishenskaya.com/index#gallery",
   "listing_seen": "2026-10-17",
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     "role": "full",
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     "processing": "Unaltered copy of the image on the artist’s website."
    },
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     "height": 868,
     "role": "thumbnail",
     "derived_from": "/assets/vishenskaya/poignant-wonder.jpg",
     "processing": "Resized to 700 px wide with sips. Also used as the room’s share image."
    }
   ],
   "rights": {
    "public_domain": false,
    "license": "All rights reserved",
    "copyright": "© Anna Vishenskaya",
    "reusable": false,
    "permission": "Shown with the artist’s permission to use the images published on her website (confirmed 2026-10-17). The permission covers display in this room; it is not a licence for anyone else to reuse the images.",
    "note": "Not part of the Artbitrage open catalogue, River or API. Do not copy or reuse; ask the artist."
   },
   "note": "The site gives no medium or note for this work; the room says so instead of guessing."
  },
  {
   "id": "veritas",
   "kind": "artist-work",
   "artist": "Anna Vishenskaya",
   "title": "Veritas",
   "date": "2026",
   "medium_as_listed": "Oil on a traditional gessoed icon board",
   "dimensions_as_listed": null,
   "framing_as_listed": "Framed with antiglare protective glass",
   "listing": "https://abracadabra-9668.myshopify.com/products/veritas-2026",
   "listing_seen": "2026-10-17 (products.json updated_at 2026-10-17T23:44:32+02:00)",
   "images": [
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     "width": 1871,
     "height": 2458,
     "role": "full",
     "source": "https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1001/7891/9759/files/VISHENSKAYAANNAveritas2026.jpg?v=1791224906",
     "processing": "Unaltered copy of the artist’s image."
    },
    {
     "file": "/assets/vishenskaya/veritas-t.jpg",
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     "height": 919,
     "role": "thumbnail",
     "derived_from": "/assets/vishenskaya/veritas.jpg",
     "processing": "Resized to 700 px wide with sips."
    },
    {
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     "width": 1081,
     "height": 1439,
     "role": "scale photograph",
     "source": "https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1001/7891/9759/files/IMG_6216.jpg?v=1791225126",
     "processing": "Unaltered copy of the artist’s photograph."
    }
   ],
   "rights": {
    "public_domain": false,
    "license": "All rights reserved",
    "copyright": "© Anna Vishenskaya",
    "reusable": false,
    "permission": "Shown with the artist’s permission to use the images published on her website (confirmed 2026-10-17). The permission covers display in this room; it is not a licence for anyone else to reuse the images.",
    "note": "Not part of the Artbitrage open catalogue, River or API. Do not copy or reuse; ask the artist."
   },
   "note": "The gilt border around the image on the page is CSS drawn for the room, echoing the gold frame in the artist’s photographs; it is not a photograph of the frame."
  }
 ],
 "museum_works": [
  {
   "id": "redon-eye",
   "kind": "museum-work",
   "rhymes_with": "hello-darkness",
   "artist": "Odilon Redon",
   "title": "The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon Moves Towards Infinity, plate one from To Edgar Poe",
   "date": "1882",
   "medium": "Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper",
   "dimensions": "Image/chine: 26.3 × 19.8 cm (10 3/8 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 44.3 × 31.5 cm (17 1/2 × 12 7/16 in.)",
   "museum": "The Art Institute of Chicago",
   "credit_line": "The Stickney Collection",
   "accession_number": "1920.1570",
   "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/79332",
   "api_source": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/79332",
   "museum_image_id": "5590e6dd-559a-858e-25cd-4c6a0e999ded",
   "is_public_domain": true,
   "images": [
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     "width": 1686,
     "height": 2226,
     "role": "full",
     "source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/5590e6dd-559a-858e-25cd-4c6a0e999ded/full/1686,/0/default.jpg",
     "processing": "Unaltered museum IIIF image, captured from inside the artwork page; see tools/receipts/vishenskaya/artic-captures.json."
    },
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     "role": "thumbnail",
     "derived_from": "/assets/vishenskaya/redon-eye.jpg",
     "processing": "Resized to 700 px wide with sips."
    }
   ],
   "rights": {
    "public_domain": true,
    "license": "CC0 / Public Domain",
    "reusable": true,
    "credit": "The Art Institute of Chicago, The Stickney Collection",
    "note": "AIC API: is_public_domain true; data CC0; image under the CC0 Public Domain Designation."
   },
   "context_source": "https://getty.edu/news/black-is-the-most-essential-color-odilon-redons-noirs (read 2026-10-17: “From 1870 to 1890, Odilon Redon … created predominantly black artworks”; noirs = black drawings and lithographs)"
  },
  {
   "id": "khunrath-laboratory",
   "kind": "museum-work",
   "rhymes_with": "poignant-wonder",
   "artist": "Peter van der Doort (born Antwerp, active Hamburg ca. 1590–1605), engraver",
   "title": "The Alchemist’s Laboratory from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphiteatrum sapientiae aeternae",
   "date": "n.d. (museum record); book first printed 1595, probably Hamburg (UW–Madison Special Collections)",
   "medium": "Engraving",
   "dimensions": "sheet: diameter 16 1/8 in. (41 cm)",
   "museum": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
   "credit_line": "Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2011",
   "accession_number": "2011.302",
   "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/397573",
   "api_source": "https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/objects/397573",
   "is_public_domain": true,
   "images": [
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     "width": 2000,
     "height": 2019,
     "role": "full",
     "source": "https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/original/DP820688.jpg",
     "source_sha256": "e8e2080eea81fdb63002084d0bccfaf9247af75489f54d93156296c92a2af4e3",
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     "source_pixels": "3578×3612",
     "fetched": "2026-10-17T21:57:39Z",
     "processing": "Resized from the Met’s 3578×3612 primaryImage to 2000 px wide with sips (quality 86). No crop, no colour change."
    },
    {
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     "processing": "Resized to 700 px wide with sips."
    }
   ],
   "rights": {
    "public_domain": true,
    "license": "CC0 / Public Domain",
    "reusable": true,
    "credit": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2011",
    "note": "Met API: isPublicDomain true, rightsAndReproduction empty (2026-10-17)."
   },
   "lettering_read_from_image": [
    "ORATORIVM (canopy, left)",
    "LABORATORIVM (sign, right)",
    "DORMIENS VIGILA (over the far doorway)",
    "FESTINA LENTE (on the furnace, front right)"
   ],
   "context_source": "Plate lettering read from the Met image; 1595 edition from https://www.library.wisc.edu/specialcollections/collections/history-of-science/khunraths-amphitheatrum-sapientiae-aeternae-1595/ (read 2026-10-17)"
  },
  {
   "id": "batoni-time-truth",
   "kind": "museum-work",
   "rhymes_with": "veritas",
   "artist": "Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, 1708–1787)",
   "title": "Time Unveiling Truth",
   "date": "1740–45",
   "medium": "Oil on canvas",
   "dimensions": "43.3 × 26.5 cm (17 1/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Framed: 52.1 × 35.6 × 3.9 cm",
   "museum": "The Art Institute of Chicago",
   "credit_line": "Harold T. Martin Trust",
   "accession_number": "1976.291",
   "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/51130",
   "api_source": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/51130",
   "museum_image_id": "39018e31-6200-f4e3-7fc0-17ef919a6723",
   "is_public_domain": true,
   "images": [
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     "width": 843,
     "height": 1373,
     "role": "full",
     "source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/39018e31-6200-f4e3-7fc0-17ef919a6723/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
     "processing": "Unaltered museum IIIF image at 843 px, captured from inside the artwork page. A 1686 px request returned 403; see the receipts."
    },
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     "role": "thumbnail",
     "derived_from": "/assets/vishenskaya/batoni-time-truth.jpg",
     "processing": "Resized to 600 px wide with sips."
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   ],
   "rights": {
    "public_domain": true,
    "license": "CC0 / Public Domain",
    "reusable": true,
    "credit": "The Art Institute of Chicago, Harold T. Martin Trust",
    "note": "AIC API: is_public_domain true. The room paraphrases the museum’s description field (CC BY 4.0) and names it as the source."
   },
   "context_source": "AIC description field (CC BY 4.0), paraphrased; Gellius, Attic Nights 12.11.7 via https://fgh.perseids.org/read/latinLit/phi1254/phi001/perseus-eng1/12.10-12.11 (read 2026-10-17)"
  }
 ]
}