flora, fauna, false gods & floods

The work and its context

flora, fauna, false gods & floods is project 361 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, published under the canonical slug flora-fauna-false-gods-and-floods-by-ryan-green and credited to Ryan Green. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 400 of 400 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: # eternity stirs my finger stirred the pool. iridescent specks at this distance. molecules separated by infinities, attracted by a gentle gesture. matter built on reducible complexity, remarkable what emerges from the soup. the specks of light flash for a moment, then flame out. the arc of their burning wick painting pictures; heating arguments; bleeding in the darkness. helpless to start or stop anything, bodies in motion, tending to stay in motion, until the fuel runs out. # can there be beauty in pain? Flora, Fauna, False gods & Floods continues a theme I began in Beauty in the Hurting. When turbulent acts of god subvert best-laid plans, is there beauty in the broken images of life we leave behind? Left alone, these images would resolve to nearly symmetrical dreamlike ink blots of meaning: a flower, a feathered creature, or a figure of worship. In fact, what is most beautiful in their image may lay outside the frame. The final resting frame in each composition does not paint the whole picture. You must go looking for it. Interact with each composition by following the controls below. # saving * a key - download transparent uncropped print * s key - download print # controls * f key - toggle speed up / slow down at 5x speed * h key - toggle speed up / slow down at 20x speed * r key - reset the camera view * click/touch - while rendering, toggles between full view and follow view, when finished, cycles through zoom levels * click/touch and drag - change the cropping of the image * click/touch again after dragging - restore the default image crop for the current zoom level 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 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270. Aspect ratio indexed as 0.66667. Website https://linktr.ee/ryangreen8.

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. # eternity stirs my finger stirred the pool. iridescent specks at this distance. molecules separated by infinities, attracted by a gentle gesture. matter built on reducible complexity, remarkable what emerges from the soup. the specks of light flash for a moment, then flame out. the arc of their burning wick painting pictures; heating arguments; bleeding in the darkness. helpless to st

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 flora, fauna, false gods & floods 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 flora-fauna-false-gods-and-floods-by-ryan-green was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 31888 bytes with SHA-256 f042da8c0d69edce340e2ccb0b5e8015ba705cc9356f2d6e4adf124c79a7983a. Runtime on the project record is p5@1.0.0. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. ⁶

The stored generator is 31888 bytes, SHA-256 f042da8c0d69edce340e2ccb0b5e8015ba705cc9356f2d6e4adf124c79a7983a, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, createCanvas, mousePressed, keyPressed, tokenData, hash, colorMode. Named functions include Boid, QuadTree, Rectangle, TurnItem, a, addBoid, applyDistanceDrag, applyFeatherForce, applyNoisyDrag, applySeekForce. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1602x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 178,132,130). File size 4457599 bytes. Indexed features: form fauna; floods wave; flood map north east + south west; color - base purple; default zoom 3; color - start light blue; form - feathered True; color - secondary orange

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: Loop behaviour inferred only from source keywords. The inspected PNG is a static frame. 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 361 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-09-02T22:57:48+00:00. activated_at is 2022-09-08T21:56:48+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-09-26T17:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-11-01T17:50:35+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 5.96 days; activation to start_datetime is 17.79 days; start_datetime to completion is 36.04 days; first mint to completion is 59.79 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 2022-09-02T22:57:48+00:00, activated 2022-09-08T21:56:48+00:00, start 2022-09-26T17:00:00+00:00, completed 2022-11-01T17:50:35+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-SA 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-SA 4.0'.

Third-party runtime p5@1.0.0 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

flora, fauna, false gods & floods #0 is token 361000000 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-09-02T22:57:48+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1602x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 178,132,130). File size 4457599 bytes. Indexed features: form fauna; floods wave; flood map north east + south west; color - base purple; default zoom 3; color - start light blue; form - feathered True; color - secondary orange Indexed features returned for this V2 token: form fauna; floods wave; flood map north east + south west; color - base purple; default zoom 3; color - start light blue; form - feathered True; color - secondary orange. ³⁹⁴

flora, fauna, false gods & floods #1 is token 361000001 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-09-26T17:30:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1601x2400px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 206,212,220). File size 2489949 bytes. Indexed features: form flora; floods storm; flood map north; color - base sea foam; default zoom 2; color - start sea foam; form - feathered False; color - secondary purple Indexed features returned for this V2 token: form flora; floods storm; flood map north; color - base sea foam; default zoom 2; color - start sea foam; form - feathered False; color - secondary purple. ³⁹⁴

flora, fauna, false gods & floods #10 is token 361000010 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-09-26T17:40:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1601x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 146,170,167). File size 5934192 bytes. Indexed features: form flora; floods storm; flood map east; color - base light blue; default zoom 2; color - start light blue; form - feathered False; color - secondary light green Indexed features returned for this V2 token: form flora; floods storm; flood map east; color - base light blue; default zoom 2; color - start light blue; form - feathered False; color - secondary light green. ³⁹⁴

flora, fauna, false gods & floods #20 is token 361000020 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-09-26T17:41:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1601x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 175,192,169). File size 4477972 bytes. Indexed features: form fauna; floods wave; flood map south; color - base yellow; default zoom 2; color - start yellow; form - feathered True; color - secondary dark green Indexed features returned for this V2 token: form fauna; floods wave; flood map south; color - base yellow; default zoom 2; color - start yellow; form - feathered True; color - secondary dark green. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 361000086 (edition 86), 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 1601x2400px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 201,186,198). File size 2633712 bytes. Indexed features: form flora; wind northwest; floods none; flood map none; color - base purple; default zoom 2; color - start magenta; form - feathered False ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: Loop behaviour inferred only from source keywords. The inspected PNG is a static frame. 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

flora, fauna, false gods & floods is project 361 by Ryan Green 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? ²¹⁰⁷

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