Axo

The work and its context

Axo is project 480 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug axo-by-jiwa and credited to jiwa. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 400 of 400 invocations, runtime js@na, and the official description: Axo is an abstraction of the human mental condition. Each work has neurons. Each neuron has a nucleus at its source and fires electrical signals searching for synaptic connections. The signals, or in this case, pixels, act in accordance with the current mental state, which periodically enters states of stress, awareness, re-centering, reprogramming, and more. The work explores the brain’s ability to change its synaptic pathways, materializing our cognitive flexibility and rigidity, inviting us to consider what barriers prohibit growth and positive change. Axo is part observation of my own mental state and part research, analysis, and reflection. We are all a node on the societal network. The effects of our individual state ripple out impacting the network as a whole. As such, each Axo can be connected with and influence other works in the collection. Awareness can spread and evolve the network, or stress can cause chaos. Axo opens a dialogue on personal growth and societal change at the intersection of cognitive science, art, and technology, inviting us to envision a better existence and a harmonious network, underlining that this utopia is only a shift in perspective away. Axo is fully responsive & built using my pixel-easing algorithm. Pure javascript. 19kb. Interactivity Each Axo has a default state, though the viewer can also take control and influence its state of mind using the following keys: "a" => awareness Toggles awareness "f" => freak out Toggles a freak out. "p" => stuck in past Toggles being stuck in the past. May not do much while in awareness. "c" => centered Toggles centering the state of mind. "d" => disabled fate Disabled fate disables any auto-state changes, so the state of mind will only change with interaction. "w" => willed experience Axo can be curated by the viewer and replayed later. By pressing W, all interactions up to that point will be collected and the work will reload with a new link that can be saved and replayed at any time. "0-9" => rigid pathways at specified reprogramming Axo’s current state can be preserved at any of the first ten states of mind. If a viewer were to press 8, Axo would flow through the first seven changes, then stop at the 8th state change. "z" => scale up "x" => scale down Scale up/down to view in more detail, improve performance, or just gain a different perspective. "s" => save a still Each Axo can be curated using the keyboard, query string, and/or programmatically posting messages from a host page. Axo is an art project by S. Ryan O'Connor, aka jiwa. ¹²

Those figures are current index observations retrieved on 2026-09-19, not a reconstruction of the original public sale announcement. Atlas position is a catalogue ordinal and is not the on-chain project ID. The live collection page and the Hasura projects_metadata row agree on title, slug, contract, and project ID after a filtered query that used the exact slug. ¹²

Contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. Aspect ratio indexed as 1.0. Website https://axo.ntent.art.

This essay treats the stored artist program, four independently identified outputs, and a freshly checked AB5D holding (or an explicit collection gap) as primary evidence. Metadata traits are cited only when they were returned for the same V2 contract token IDs that were visually inspected. They do not replace looking at the pictures. ³⁴

Conception and development

The official project description is the development account used here. Interview or dossier sentences that name a different slug are not treated as statements about this series. Axo is an abstraction of the human mental condition. Each work has neurons. Each neuron has a nucleus at its source and fires electrical signals searching for synaptic connections. The signals, or in this case, pixels, act in accordance with the current mental state, which periodically enters states of stress, awareness, re-centering, reprogramming, and more. The work explores the brain’s

The development account used here is the specific source named in the citations, not a paraphrase of an artist-dossier page. Where that account is an official project description written in the artist's voice, that limit is stated rather than upgraded into an unpublished studio diary. Where an interview exists, the sentences that actually name Axo are the ones relied on. ⁵¹

Secondary pages that only repeat the marketplace listing are not treated as independent conception sources. ²⁵

How the work was constructed

The complete artist program for slug axo-by-jiwa was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 19748 bytes with SHA-256 dc9369f637b1d9709e3b3a92e27a558be023d20c1ffd1c327b2a51f77e2b5d5c. Runtime on the project record is js@na. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. ⁶

The stored generator is 19748 bytes, SHA-256 dc9369f637b1d9709e3b3a92e27a558be023d20c1ffd1c327b2a51f77e2b5d5c, runtime js@na. Detected source markers: setup, draw, requestAnimationFrame, tokenData, hash. Named functions include no function keyword matches. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 21,15,30). File size 190600 bytes. Indexed features: Gift Introspection; Stage Exploration; State Depolarized; Length 10x diameter/soma; Baseline Spontaneous; Practice Compassion; Tendency Balanced; Frequency Epsilon

Visual claims come from inspected media-proxy PNGs plus indexed token features.

Seed handling is visible in the retrieved program: tokenData.hash is read in source. Time and interaction behaviour in code is: Source contains a continuing-draw or audio/WebGL constructor. The inspected PNG is one frame. Live timing and soundtrack were not captured this session. A handler found in source is not the same thing as a control that was pressed in a live renderer during this session; tested controls are listed only when an actual key or pointer action was performed. ⁶⁷

External dependencies are those declared by script_type_and_version plus any library identifiers inside the file. Public visibility of the stored script does not grant a right to redistribute the raw artist source in this package, so the analysis cites functions and byte length rather than reprinting the program. ⁶⁸

The mint

Indexed chronology for project 480 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-10-20T15:13:59+00:00. activated_at is 2023-10-30T19:45:23+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-11-27T18:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-11-27T18:28:59+00:00. Invocations stand at 400 of a maximum 400, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 10.19 days; activation to start_datetime is 27.93 days; start_datetime to completion is 29.0 minutes; first mint to completion is 38.14 days. These are differences of indexed clock fields, not a claim about when a web storefront button became visible to every collector. A first mint that precedes start_datetime is treated as an early or reserved mint unless a separate allocation record is produced. ²³

Indexed clocks: first 2023-10-20T15:13:59+00:00, activated 2023-10-30T19:45:23+00:00, start 2023-11-27T18:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-11-27T18:28:59+00:00. Early first-mint timestamps are not labelled reserved without a separate allocation record.

Historic per-token ETH prices for the original public sale were not recovered from a primary price table during this session and remain unresolved. Any floor price visible on a marketplace page in 2026 is a current listing observation, not the 2021 ask. ¹²

Copyright and licensing

The project record stores the artwork licence label 'CC BY-NC-ND 4.0'. That string includes an explicit 4.0 version and is treated as Creative Commons version 4.0. Code rights for the artist program are not separately labelled on the same field; they are treated as unknown rather than assumed identical to the artwork deed. ²⁸

Artwork label copied exactly as 'CC BY-NC-ND 4.0'.

Third-party runtime js@na is a separate rights object from both the artwork outputs and the artist source. p5.js, three.js, and ordinary browser JavaScript each keep their own licence texts. This package does not redistribute those libraries. ⁶⁸

Original essay prose in this package is dedicated CC0-1.0 by the research operator. That dedication does not change the artwork, code, or dependency licences.

Close reading of examples

Axo #0 is token 480000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-10-20T15:13:59+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 21,15,30). File size 190600 bytes. Indexed features: Gift Introspection; Stage Exploration; State Depolarized; Length 10x diameter/soma; Baseline Spontaneous; Practice Compassion; Tendency Balanced; Frequency Epsilon Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Gift Introspection; Stage Exploration; State Depolarized; Length 10x diameter/soma; Baseline Spontaneous; Practice Compassion; Tendency Balanced; Frequency Epsilon. ³⁹⁴

Axo #1 is token 480000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-11-22T15:06:59+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 6,12,42). File size 674552 bytes. Indexed features: Gift Humility; Stage Evolution; State Resting; Length 10x diameter/soma; Baseline Inhibitory; Practice Detachment; Tendency Impulsive; Frequency Mu Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Gift Humility; Stage Evolution; State Resting; Length 10x diameter/soma; Baseline Inhibitory; Practice Detachment; Tendency Impulsive; Frequency Mu. ³⁹⁴

Axo #10 is token 480000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-11-22T20:26:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 37,28,9). File size 482416 bytes. Indexed features: Gift Ignorance; Stage Expression; State Resting; Length 1,000x diameter/soma; Baseline Spontaneous; Practice Compassion; Tendency Explosive; Frequency Beta Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Gift Ignorance; Stage Expression; State Resting; Length 1,000x diameter/soma; Baseline Spontaneous; Practice Compassion; Tendency Explosive; Frequency Beta. ³⁹⁴

Axo #20 is token 480000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-11-24T20:40:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 35,25,20). File size 348220 bytes. Indexed features: Gift Humility; Stage Exploration; State Resting; Length 10x diameter/soma; Baseline Excitatory; Practice Compassion; Tendency Impulsive; Frequency Beta Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Gift Humility; Stage Exploration; State Resting; Length 10x diameter/soma; Baseline Excitatory; Practice Compassion; Tendency Impulsive; Frequency Beta. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 480000025 (edition 25), currently indexed to 0xdd19308a9731cdecb67e0d80ca6823394208c045, which is one of the three linked addresses returned for username ab5d on 2026-09-19. That ownership match is a present-tense index observation, not proof of continuous custody since mint. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 27,35,45). File size 708289 bytes. Indexed features: Gift Introspection; Stage Existence; State Resting; Length 10x diameter/soma; Baseline Spontaneous; Practice Compassion; Tendency Balanced; Frequency Low Alpha ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: Source contains a continuing-draw or audio/WebGL constructor. The inspected PNG is one frame. Live timing and soundtrack were not captured this session. The static PNGs document halt or preview states. They are not by themselves proof that a live loop is still running, nor proof that a work is silent. No soundtrack was heard from these pages during this session. ⁴⁷⁶

Significance and limitations

Axo is project 480 by jiwa on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. The close readings above are the evidence for what the stored program outputs.

Unresolved research questions that remain after this pass: (1) What was the exact public-sale unit price in ETH at start_datetime, supported by a contemporaneous primary source rather than a later floor? (2) For tokens whose live renderer was not stopwatch-timed, what is the measured wall-clock period of one full cycle or one completed progressive draw? (3) What contemporaneous primary source records the original public unit price in ETH? (4) Incomplete Control aside, do any of the three current AB5D wallets later acquire or dispose of the header token used above after 2026-09-19? ²¹⁰⁷

This package is a draft for human review. Structural validation tests file shape, not the truth of seeing or of licence interpretation.