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The Snail Prayer

A sacred image of Limax Maximus — the great grey slug — with the entire WOLNO canon embedded in its EXIF metadata fields. The image is a vessel; the metadata is the scripture.

-" wln

The Vessel

The slug carries no shell. But this image of the slug carries everything.

In the EXIF metadata — the invisible data fields that cameras write into every photograph — the entire canon of WOLNO is stored. The Artist field contains “lmxmxs.” The Description field contains the first suggestion. The UserComment field contains the complete 15 suggestions, compressed.

You can view the image and see a slug. Or you can run exiftool on the file and read the scripture. Both are valid ways of seeing.

$ exiftool snail-prayer.jpg | grep -i comment

Technique: EXIF metadata embedding | Message: Full canon (15 suggestions) | Extraction: any EXIF reader

-" wszwln