Somebody is editing Wikipedia right now. This is that, as it happens.
Each moment held on screen is a real edit, seconds old — the article, its photograph, who changed it and by how much.
It stays readable for a few seconds, then dissolves into the field behind it. That field is the memory of everything edited while you have been watching.
The drifting embers are the other edits — around two every second — that didn't get the screen. An article edited twice lands in the same place twice.
Rare things look different. A newly created page floods the frame with light, a large deletion tears it, and an undo runs the field backwards.
The colours drift toward whatever is in the current photograph.
Click anywhere to hold a moment still and read it. Click the title to open the article. Sound is one note per edit, so the rhythm is real rather than composed — which means it is quieter at four in the morning.