# Departed by Alexis André ## The work and its context Departed is project 350 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, published under the canonical slug departed-by-alexis-andre and credited to Alexis André. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 350 of 350 invocations, runtime js@na, and the official description: *For everyone that should still be there.* *For everyone that went through hell and came back.* *For everyone that stood on the sidelines, helpless.* *For everyone that fights, day in and day out.* We all deal with unexpected events in different ways - you can never be ready for the worst. What happens to the soul when you get too close to the end? How will you perceive the crossing to whatever awaits? Will you be alone? Or will you see the souls of the other *Departed?* ---   *Departed* deals with the uncertainty of life, feelings of helplessness and how we might be losing touch with our humanity when everything is online, when you are not allowed to see your relatives, when you are not allowed to be with them - even at the worst of times, when you can not even know what is happening. *Departed* is a representation of what the people close to me might be going through. An experiment in composition that pushes everything I do to new extremes (with familiar elements), *Departed* works around creating various layers with different centers of interest, from colours to shapes, textures to frame. [^S01][^S02] 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. [^S01][^S02] Contract 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270. Aspect ratio indexed as 1.77777777777777. Website none indexed. 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. [^S04][^S09] ## 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. *For everyone that should still be there.* *For everyone that went through hell and came back.* *For everyone that stood on the sidelines, helpless.* *For everyone that fights, day in and day out.* We all deal with unexpected events in different ways - you can never be ready for the worst. What happens to the soul when you get too close to the end? How will you perceive the crossing to whateve 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 Departed are the ones relied on. [^S07][^S01] Secondary pages that only repeat the marketplace listing are not treated as independent conception sources. [^S02][^S07] ## How the work was constructed The complete artist program for slug departed-by-alexis-andre was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 17701 bytes with SHA-256 9bc86475ff361c8b77277f28a77e4ebf0b3e7cc83ce41a3e7a72c4987cbb59e3. Runtime on the project record is js@na. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. [^S03] The stored generator is 17701 bytes, SHA-256 9bc86475ff361c8b77277f28a77e4ebf0b3e7cc83ce41a3e7a72c4987cbb59e3, runtime js@na. Detected source markers: draw, requestAnimationFrame, tokenData, hash. Named functions include Ce, Gt, Le, Ne, Oe, Ue, fr, lr, or, qt. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1351px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 113,123,104). File size 4896502 bytes. Indexed features: Cut Mountain; Lens Wide; Faith Agnostic; Focus Single; Power Regular; Steps Lazy; Tiled Uniform; Nature Solid 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. [^S03][^S10] 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. [^S03][^S06] ## The mint Indexed chronology for project 350 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-09-09T23:50:34+00:00. activated_at is 2022-09-14T21:21:38+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-10-12T15:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-10-12T15:52:47+00:00. Invocations stand at 350 of a maximum 350, with complete=true on the retrieved row. [^S02][^S04] Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 4.90 days; activation to start_datetime is 27.73 days; start_datetime to completion is 52.8 minutes; first mint to completion is 32.67 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. [^S02][^S04] Indexed clocks: first 2022-09-09T23:50:34+00:00, activated 2022-09-14T21:21:38+00:00, start 2022-10-12T15:00:00+00:00, completed 2022-10-12T15:52:47+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. [^S01][^S02] ## Copyright and licensing The project record stores the artwork licence label ' CC BY-NC 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. [^S02][^S06] Artwork label copied exactly as ' CC BY-NC 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. [^S03][^S06] 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 Departed #0 is token 350000000 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-09-09T23:50:34+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1351px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 113,123,104). File size 4896502 bytes. Indexed features: Cut Mountain; Lens Wide; Faith Agnostic; Focus Single; Power Regular; Steps Lazy; Tiled Uniform; Nature Solid Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Cut Mountain; Lens Wide; Faith Agnostic; Focus Single; Power Regular; Steps Lazy; Tiled Uniform; Nature Solid. [^S04][^S05][^S09] Departed #1 is token 350000001 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-10-12T15:28:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1351px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 109,82,62). File size 2899362 bytes. Indexed features: Cut Flat; Lens Wide; Faith Agnostic; Focus Single; Power Overcharged; Steps Demanding; Tiled Uniform; Nature Ephemeral (maybe) Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Cut Flat; Lens Wide; Faith Agnostic; Focus Single; Power Overcharged; Steps Demanding; Tiled Uniform; Nature Ephemeral (maybe). [^S04][^S05][^S09] Departed #10 is token 350000010 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-10-12T15:45:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1351px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 69,77,95). File size 2605140 bytes. Indexed features: Cut Mountain; Lens Wide; Faith Agnostic; Focus Single; Power Overcharged; Steps Lazy; Tiled Uniform; Nature Solid Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Cut Mountain; Lens Wide; Faith Agnostic; Focus Single; Power Overcharged; Steps Lazy; Tiled Uniform; Nature Solid. [^S04][^S05][^S09] Departed #20 is token 350000020 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-10-12T15:50:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1351px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 97,70,69). File size 3634946 bytes. Indexed features: Cut Flat; Lens Wide; Faith Agnostic; Focus Single; Power Regular; Steps Lazy; Tiled Uniform; Nature Solid Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Cut Flat; Lens Wide; Faith Agnostic; Focus Single; Power Regular; Steps Lazy; Tiled Uniform; Nature Solid. [^S04][^S05][^S09] The AB5D header candidate is token 350000021 (edition 21), 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 2400x1351px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 86,89,86). File size 2633837 bytes. Indexed features: Cut Flat; Lens Wide; Faith Agnostic; Focus Single; Power Regular; Steps Demanding; Tiled Uniform; Nature Ephemeral (maybe) [^S08][^S04][^S09] 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. [^S09][^S10][^S03] ## Significance and limitations Departed is project 350 by Alexis André on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270. 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? [^S02][^S08][^S10] This package is a draft for human review. Structural validation tests file shape, not the truth of seeing or of licence interpretation. [^S01]: Art Blocks. [Departed by Alexis André collection page](https://www.artblocks.io/collection/departed-by-alexis-andre). Accessed 2026-09-19. [^S02]: Art Blocks Hasura index. [projects_metadata record for departed-by-alexis-andre](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19. [^S03]: Alexis André. [Departed on-chain artist program](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19. [^S04]: Art Blocks Hasura index. [tokens_metadata for sampled Departed token IDs](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19. [^S05]: Art Blocks. [Canonical token pages for sampled Departed outputs](https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/350000000). Accessed 2026-09-19. [^S06]: Creative Commons. [Reported artwork licence label CC BY-NC 4.0](https://www.artblocks.io/collection/departed-by-alexis-andre). Accessed 2026-09-19. [^S07]: Alexis André. [Departed official description](https://www.artblocks.io/collection/departed-by-alexis-andre). Accessed 2026-09-19. [^S08]: Art Blocks. [AB5D linked wallet set and profile index](https://www.artblocks.io/profile/ab5d). Accessed 2026-09-19. [^S09]: Art Blocks media proxy. [Static PNG renders of sampled Departed tokens](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/350000000.png). Accessed 2026-09-19. [^S10]: Art Blocks. [Live generator renderer for Departed](https://generator.artblocks.io/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/350000000). Accessed 2026-09-19.