i wanted to destroy something beautiful
Twenty-one 1/1 works. Each one is minted whole - a finished, intact artwork on an ERC-7160 contract, which means the token can carry more than one metadata state at once.
That second part is the point. When you collect a piece from this series, you are also collecting the license to destroy it. Not metaphorically: the destruction engine takes your work apart - samples its pixels, its colors, its regions of motion - and rebuilds it as ruins. What you make in the engine gets written back into the token, alongside the original, permanently.
The original is never lost. The token ends up holding both states: the thing, and what you did to it. Which one the world sees is a choice the array remembers.