A WORK IN PROGRESS
A Work In Progress is a continuously evolving artwork generated in real time from the Ethereum blockchain.
It draws from several artistic lineages: Hanne Darboven's use of writing, counting, repetition and time-based structures; Leslie Roberts' coded translations of language into grids of color and geometric signs; and, more discreetly, Vera Molnar's rule-based approach to abstraction and controlled variation.
In A Work In Progress, these principles are transposed to the Ethereum blockchain.
Instead of a written text, the source material is the continuous flow of blocks produced by the network. Each block is treated as a fragment of language. Its data is translated into signs, colors and positions inside a grid. The image is not composed manually. It is generated through a set of rules.
Each Ethereum block adds transaction characters to a persistent grid. Rings accumulate in the same cells throughout a slot window of 1,111 blocks, creating concentric layers and darker bands. Each artwork contains at most 9,999 characters.
The paper grain is procedural. Each NFT stores its source block and seed; the immutable Ethereum contract generates the complete SVG and metadata without image files, IPFS or an external rendering service.
It does not illustrate the blockchain as data. It transforms its activity into a living visual language.
Each mint captures one temporary state of this process.
Not a final image, but a moment inside an artwork that continues to change.