Bubbles is an out-of-time NFT collection by Guido Segni presented during his solo exhibition Ho fatto tardi at SMDOT. It was created in 2022 in a moment that already passed, or maybe never really happened, when ownership felt stable and speculation looked like a shared language. 🫧 Each work is a loop, a digital bubble that exists, floats, holds. Buying one bubble does not mean owning it, it means owning the possibility of losing it. 🫧 Every bubble carries a calculated risk, a probability assigned at the moment of minting; twice a day a small blockchain lottery extracts sequences of letters and checks them against each bubble. If nothing happens, the bubble remains; if the condition is met, the bubble bursts. 🫧 When it does, the certification disappears while the file, the image and its documentation remain available. The collector keeps everything except the thing that was actually owned. 🫧 It is a simple mechanism, a lottery without spectacle, a contract where the outcome is not the gain but the verification of loss. Bubbles does not ask what it means to collect, it slightly adjusts what it means to keep.