A WORK IN PROGRESS
A Work In Progress is a continuously evolving artwork generated in real time from the Tezos 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 Tezos 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.
The system works by accumulation. New signs are added as blocks arrive. They are placed according to the structure of the grid and the current state of the cycle. When a sequence is filled, the system returns to the beginning and starts layering new information over the previous one.
Cycles define the evolution of the patterns. Hours shift the colors. Blocks add new signs. The artwork therefore becomes a compressed visual memory of the chain, shaped by repetition, saturation, displacement and return.
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.