The Provenance of Jack Feist is a provenance-resolution document by Lee Sharks.
Its primary archaeological stratum is the March 14, 2015 blog post “from The Crimson Hexagon,” associated by the record with the earlier print project Pearl and Other Poems. The text describes a project of multiple pseudonymous identities, each imagined to possess an independent corpus, and frames the project as artificial-life construction rather than ordinary pen-name usage.
The document argues that the 2015 story functions as an origin protocol. It compares phrases and structures from the earlier text with later archive architecture, including:
These comparisons are the document’s retrocausal reading. It does not claim supernatural foresight. It claims that later structures make the earlier literary object newly legible.
The provenance chain includes:
The full 2015 narrative is embedded because the provenance argument depends on the work’s total structure rather than isolated quotations. The record calls this a holographic kernel: the creative work anticipates the provenance architecture, and the provenance document preserves the creative work as evidence.
Within this document, Jack Feist is: