Attention Garden — several glowing structures grow at once; the one you attend to is fed and the others weaken and go dark

PROJECT NOTHING · EXPERIMENT 040

Attention Garden

Rest your cursor on a structure to feed it. The others weaken. Try keeping everything alive.

0 of 0 alive

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THE WORK

You can grow anything. You just can’t grow everything.

Several structures grow at once. Whichever one you attend to is fed: light leaves your finger or cursor and runs into it. Everything else slowly weakens. Weak structures stop growing, pull their tips back and dim. At zero they go dark and stay dark.

Hunger is not fixed. A structure needs more the bigger it gets, and every structure needs more as time passes, so a garden that is easy to keep at the start becomes impossible to keep whole. How long you manage is the only score.

It is about attention when intelligence is cheap: anything can be made to grow now, and what is scarce is the looking. No AI model runs here. The structures follow a few fixed rules in your browser, and nothing you do is stored except your best time, on this device.

A Project Nothing experiment. It might be gone next month. Read the experiment note ↗