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    "slug": "fragments-of-an-infinite-field-by-monica-rizzolli",
    "title": "Fragments of an Infinite Field",
    "artistCredit": "Monica Rizzolli",
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      "web search and body reading",
      "CUA Chrome original renderer screenshots and controls",
      "local package validator"
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      "scope": "Fragments of an Infinite Field measured delegated research and drafting through the completed package usage event; final handoff, editorial integration and publication excluded.",
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    {
      "id": "the-work-and-its-context",
      "heading": "The work and its context",
      "bodyMarkdown": "Fragments of an Infinite Field is project 159 on the Art Blocks Curated contract `0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270`. The index records 1,024 invocations against a maximum of 1,024, the runtime `p5@1.0.0`, a square aspect ratio, the licence label `CC BY` and a price field of 2 ETH [^S01]. Rizzolli's project text calls it \"a compositional system in which an idealized plant species is generated and arranged in a potentially infinite field of foliage\" [^S01].\n\nEach output is a square of dense, hatched foliage in which a population of one invented flower grows. A season, drawn from the token hash, sets the palettes and adds a weather event: \"rain in summer, snow in winter, petals falling in autumn, and pollen in spring\" [^S01]. The artist names the ambiguity between figure and ground as the subject. Background colours are \"most of the time, colors present in the figures\", so plants and field merge into \"chromatic masses\" [^S01].\n\nRizzolli was born in São Carlos, Brazil, in 1981, studied at the Instituto de Artes-UNESP and the Kunsthochschule Kassel, and lives in Portugal [^S02]. The release sold out in under an hour, and The Block put the proceeds at 1,623 ETH, then about $5.38 million [^S03]. Works from the series have been promised to LACMA, and the Toledo Museum of Art has exhibited it [^S04][^S05]."
    },
    {
      "id": "conception-and-development",
      "heading": "Conception and development",
      "bodyMarkdown": "In the Art Blocks interview with Jeff Davis, Rizzolli said: \"The inspiration for the project is plants and their relationship with the environment\" [^S06]. She described finding Processing in 2012, after studying drawing, and realising that \"programming was exactly what I needed to create the drawings and landscapes I envisioned\" [^S06]. The Generative Art Museum adds that she \"started as a painter\" and came to creative programming while studying in Kassel [^S07].\n\nShe asked collectors to watch \"the seasons along the time and how the colors behave in each of them\", and \"the movement of foliage and how it grows in space\" [^S06]. She also pointed to smaller events: \"the visual confusion generated by the rain\", \"the veil created by the snow\", and \"the fallen petals and the hidden flowers\" [^S06]. The Toledo Museum's wall text quotes her on the title: \"A field is a continuous spatial and temporal entity, yet we only experience fragments of it\" [^S05].\n\nThe project text frames the flower as a biological problem. Some variables act on \"the entire population of the species\", others on each individual, so that filament counts \"can undergo minor deviations, generating small mutations\". Her stated question is \"How to create parameters that resemble a living organism's growth?\" [^S01]. LACMA's curator Dhyandra Lawson connects the woodcut-like hatching to Rizzolli's background in printmaking and Gestalt theories of perception [^S04]."
    },
    {
      "id": "how-the-work-was-constructed",
      "heading": "How the work was constructed",
      "bodyMarkdown": "The program is a single script of 17,238 bytes, SHA-256 `863cfc5f0cfec729628e6f7d886c7db109c6be1c8eec3ff75d597df535ac2537`. It was retrieved from the Art Blocks index and read in full. No code is reproduced here [^S01].\n\nThe script reads the token hash as 32 bytes and reduces each one to a single digit, its value modulo 10. Almost every decision is then a threshold on one of those digits [^S01]. Digit 15 picks the season, digit 6 the number of flowers (5 to 75, in ten steps), digit 7 whether every flower shares one colour order, and digit 8 whether every flower has the same number of petals. Digit 10 decides whether the background is a flower colour or a leaf colour, and it splits the edition almost exactly in half: 513 flower grounds against 511 leaf grounds (own computation) [^S01]. Each season has two leaf palettes and two flower palettes of five colours, so there are 16 palette pairs in all [^S01].\n\nThe drawing has four layers. A first pass of foliage lays thousands of rotated ellipses across a Perlin noise field. The flowers are drawn next, then a second, sparser foliage pass over them, and finally snow or rain [^S01]. That second pass is what hides flowers, the \"hidden flowers\" Rizzolli mentions [^S06]. Each flower is built from two rings of elliptical petals, a corona of curved filaments tipped with small anthers, four to six stamens, an ovary and a three-lobed stigma. Petal size falls as flower count rises, so a five-flower field shows a few large blooms and a 75-flower field a crowd of small ones [^S01].\n\nI tested every published trait against the script's rules across all 1,024 tokens (own computation) [^S01]. The table gives the rule and the count.\n\n| Trait | Rule in the code | Count of 1,024 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Seasons | digit 15: 0-2 Spring, 3-4 Autumn, 5-6 Summer, 7-9 Winter | 320, 209, 196, 299 |\n| Flowers | digit 6 mapped to 5-75 | 91 to 113 per value |\n| FlowerColor: Equal | digit 7 is 7, 8 or 9 | 283 |\n| NumberOfPetals: Equal | digit 8 is 5 or more | 507 |\n| Rain | Summer, digit 21 not 9 | 181 |\n| Snow | Winter, digit 17 not 3 | 266 |\n| Pollen | Spring, digit 12 not 5 or 6 | 260 |\n| PetalsFallingDown | Autumn, digit 13 is 2 or more | 164 |\n| Storm | Summer, digit 24 is 5 | 19 |\n\nEvery label matches its rule in all 1,024 tokens, except for three snow cases discussed below [^S01]."
    },
    {
      "id": "quirks-in-the-algorithm",
      "heading": "Quirks in the algorithm",
      "bodyMarkdown": "A full read of the program, checked against the published token records, turned up the following. Points that rest on the code alone are marked as code reading.\n\n1. **Only ten random sequences.** The program seeds p5's random generator from a single digit, so every Fragment uses one of only ten random streams [^S01]. Flower positions and rotations come from that stream. The number of calls made before each flower depends only on the Equal or Different colour and petal switches. Tokens that share the digit and both switches therefore place their flowers in the same spots, and there are at most 40 flower layouts in the edition (own computation). I reproduced p5's generator in Python: #0, #74 and #796 share their first five flower positions, and their renders agree [^S01]. Different seasons, sizes and foliage hide the repetition.\n2. **A Storm with no storm in it.** The program contains no storm routine. The Storm label is set when a Summer token's digit 24 is 5, and the script never reads digit 24 directly [^S01]. Three Storm outputs, #154, #452 and #985, have no rain at all, because their rain digit is 9 [^S01]. The rarest trait in the series is a label with no visual effect of its own.\n3. **Unlabelled blizzards.** Snow is normally 1,000 to 1,800 flakes. When digit 19 is 3, a Winter output gets 3,500 to 4,500, a white haze over the whole field. That applies to 25 tokens, but no trait records it [^S01]. For three of them, #142, #444 and #746, the heavy snow also overrides the switch that turns snow off. Their metadata reads \"Snow: No\", yet they carry the heaviest snow in the edition [^S01].\n4. **Invisible pollen.** The 60 Spring outputs labelled \"Pollen: No\" still draw their pollen grains. That branch simply sets no fill and no outline, so each grain is drawn invisibly (code reading) [^S01].\n5. **Fractional petals.** The petal count is a digit mapped to the range 4 to 9 without rounding, so most flowers have values such as 5.67. The loop draws a whole number of petals but turns by a fractional angle, so the last petal overlaps the first unevenly (code reading) [^S01]. Among the 507 Equal-petal outputs, four petals (48) and five petals (53) are about half as common as six to nine (96 to 107 each) (own computation) [^S01].\n6. **A shuffle that always moves everything.** The colour shuffle picks its swap partner from the positions below the current one, never the current one itself. That is Sattolo's algorithm, which moves every colour from its listed place (code reading) [^S01]. On the 283 Equal-colour outputs, then, the outer petals never take the first colour listed in their palette. The shuffle also runs on the shared random stream, so its order depends only on the seed digit (code reading).\n7. **Most of the foliage lands off the canvas.** Each foliage pass loops over 1,001 by 1,501 grid positions, about three million ellipses per output. Given the row and column spacing, only 1.3 to 2.8 per cent of the grid falls on the 1,000-unit canvas, 2.0 per cent on average (own computation) [^S01]. That explains the slow render.\n8. **One digit, two jobs.** Digit 21 controls both summer rain and the way leaf outlines are coloured. Every Summer output without rain therefore uses the same outline mode (code reading) [^S01].\n9. **Leftovers.** A seed built from the first 16 hex characters is computed and never used. The snowflake count is printed to the browser console, and several variables are implicit globals (code reading) [^S01]."
    },
    {
      "id": "the-most-coveted-variants",
      "heading": "The most coveted variants",
      "bodyMarkdown": "No published collector guide to the series' traits turned up in the sources inspected, so this section combines the index data with the sales that are documented.\n\n**Storm (19 of 1,024).** Storm is the smallest trait group in the metadata [^S01]. The highest sale reported by nftmetria, 59 ETH on 15 September 2021, was #684 [^S08]. It is a Storm output: pale yellow summer foliage under slanting blue rain, with most of its 29 flowers buried [^S01]. The Block reported secondary sales of up to 69 ETH in the first day of trading, without naming the token [^S03]. Blockzeit quoted an analyst who put Art Blocks' secondary volume that day at 5,486 ETH, \"4475 of it\" from this series [^S09].\n\n![Fragments of an Infinite Field #684: pale yellow summer foliage with slanting blue rain and pink and blue flowers half hidden](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/159000684.png)\n*#684, a Storm output with rain, reported sold for 59 ETH in September 2021. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*\n\n#154, by contrast, is a Storm with no rain. It is a dense Summer field of 75 blue flowers, all in one colour order, on pink and yellow foliage [^S01]. As quirk 2 explains, \"Storm\" here describes nothing that is drawn.\n\n![Fragments of an Infinite Field #154: 75 blue and pink flowers crowded over red, yellow and teal foliage](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/159000154.png)\n*#154, a Storm output that has no rain. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*\n\n**Flower counts and colour.** Five-flower and 75-flower fields are the two extremes of scale (105 and 110 tokens) [^S01]. Equal FlowerColor, where every bloom shares one colour order, is the rarer and more uniform state (283 tokens). Its rarest season pairing is Summer with Equal colour (45 tokens) (own computation) [^S01]. Rizzolli's own emphasis is on the interplay of flowers and field rather than on single traits [^S06].\n\n**Blizzards.** No trait marks the 25 heavy-snow outputs, but they are the most visibly distinct Winter works. #142 is one of the three labelled \"Snow: No\" [^S01].\n\n![Fragments of an Infinite Field #142: lilac flowers almost dissolved in a dense white snowfall over pale foliage](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/159000142.png)\n*#142, an unlabelled blizzard whose metadata reads \"Snow: No\". Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*\n\n**AB5D's two Fragments.** #603 and #829 are both Winter fields of 52 flowers with Snow, minted in the last two minutes of the sale [^S01]. #603 is lilac and grey with pale violet blooms that almost merge into the ground, the figure-ground effect Rizzolli describes [^S01]. #829 sets green-and-white flowers against blue-grey foliage.\n\n![Fragments of an Infinite Field #603: lilac and grey winter foliage with pale violet flowers under light snow](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/159000603.png)\n*#603, held by AB5D. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*"
    },
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      "id": "notable-collectors",
      "heading": "Notable collectors",
      "bodyMarkdown": "- **LACMA, via the Cozomo de' Medici Collection.** LACMA's February 2023 announcement lists #800 (Autumn) and #972 as promised gifts [^S04]. Artnet News and The Art Newspaper illustrate #923 (Summer) with the same credit line [^S10][^S11]. At retrieval, all three sat in one wallet holding eight Fragments; no source inspected names that wallet [^S01].\n- **Toledo Museum of Art.** \"Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms\" showed #130 (Spring), #12 (Summer) and #814 (Autumn). #130 is credited to a private collection [^S05]. #12 and #814 were in the same wallet at retrieval [^S01].\n- **The Generative Art Museum** displays #10, #1023 and #137 [^S07].\n- **Other names.** Blockzeit reported that collectors known as \"Medici\" and \"JDH\" bought premium pieces at launch [^S09]. Nftmetria lists Cozomo de' Medici, punk6529 and VincentVanDough as collectors, without token numbers [^S08]. These are secondary reports and need checking.\n\n![Fragments of an Infinite Field #923: summer field crowded with pink, blue and white flowers over orange foliage and pale rain](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/159000923.png)\n*#923, Summer, captioned in the press as a promised gift to LACMA from the Cozomo de' Medici Collection. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*"
    },
    {
      "id": "at-auction-and-on-the-wall",
      "heading": "At auction and on the wall",
      "bodyMarkdown": "**Auctions.** Phillips offered four Fragments, #302, #588, #689 and #894, as one lot in \"Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art\" (London, 13-20 July 2022), estimated at £20,000 to £30,000 [^S12]. The result was not visible on the pages read. At retrieval, #689 and #894 sat in the two largest Fragments wallets, which hold 34 and 24 [^S01]. Sotheby's Digital Art Day sales have included #960 and #833 (19 September 2024, each estimated at $200 to $300) and #713 (16 April 2025, estimated at $500 to $700) [^S13][^S14][^S15]. The results were behind a login. Together with an index floor of about 0.37 ETH at retrieval, those estimates show how far the market has moved since the 59 ETH sale of 2021 [^S01][^S08].\n\n**Physical works and exhibitions.** No official print programme, mural or plotter edition for Fragments was found. The prints shown at Unit London's \"Unbound: Ecology in the Age of Machines\" (9 August to 5 September 2023) belong to a later work, *From Grain to Blossom* [^S16]. Load Gallery's \"Neo Botanica\" in Barcelona (6 February to 8 March 2025) featured Rizzolli but does not say whether Fragments was shown [^S17]. The series' public showings found here are on screen, at LACMA and Toledo [^S04][^S05]."
    },
    {
      "id": "the-mint",
      "heading": "The mint",
      "bodyMarkdown": "Invocation 0 was minted on 9 September 2021 at 01:23:59 UTC, four days before the public sale [^S01]. The index records activation on 10 September and a start time of 16:00 UTC on 13 September. The first public mint was at 16:04:20 UTC and the last at 16:41:40 UTC, so 1,023 works sold in about 37 minutes [^S01]. The Block reported a Dutch auction that started at 10 ETH [^S03]. The index price field, presumably the resting price, is 2 ETH [^S01]. The Block's total of 1,623 ETH averages about 1.58 ETH per work, below that price, so the figure may be net of platform fees. The sources do not say [^S03]. At retrieval, the 1,024 tokens were held by 575 addresses; the largest wallet held 34 [^S01]."
    },
    {
      "id": "copyright-and-licensing",
      "heading": "Copyright and licensing",
      "bodyMarkdown": "The index records `CC BY` with no version and no link [^S01]. On that label, the images may be shared and adapted, including commercially, with attribution. The program carries no separate code licence, and p5.js is loaded by the platform [^S01]. Whether a particular CC BY version was intended is unresolved."
    },
    {
      "id": "significance-and-limitations",
      "heading": "Significance and limitations",
      "bodyMarkdown": "Fragments of an Infinite Field sold out in under an hour in September 2021. It carried a painter's and printmaker's concern with figure and ground into long-form code [^S03][^S04]. Its botanical system is richer than its nine traits suggest: the labels miss blizzards, and they name a storm that is never drawn. Below the variety, ten random streams give just 40 flower layouts [^S01]. Its institutional life is on screen, at LACMA and Toledo, with no physical edition found [^S04][^S05].\n\nUnresolved research questions:\n\n1. Which Fragments did Cozomo de' Medici promise to LACMA: #800 and #972, as LACMA's post says, or also #923, as the press captions show?\n2. What did the Phillips lot of four realise in July 2022, and what did the Sotheby's lots of 2024 and 2025 fetch?\n3. Is the 59 ETH sale of #684 the series record, and which token made the 69 ETH sale The Block reported? Both come from secondary sites, and OpenSea and CryptoSlam could not be read.\n4. Did Rizzolli intend a storm effect tied to byte 24, and is the \"Snow: No\" label on #142, #444 and #746 a known error? Her posts on X could not be fetched.\n5. The Right Click Save interview (Malte Rauch) could not be read in full. Quotations from the Art Blocks interview come from automated extraction and should be checked against the page."
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  "manuscriptPreamble": "# Fragments of an Infinite Field by Monica Rizzolli\n\n*Art Blocks Curated, project 159 · 1,024 outputs · minted 13 September 2021 · CC BY*\n\n![Fragments of an Infinite Field #829: pale green and white flowers among blue-grey winter foliage under falling snow](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/159000829.png)\n*Fragments of an Infinite Field #829, a Winter output with 52 flowers, held by AB5D. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*\n\n",
  "bibliographyMarkdown": "\n### Primary\n\n[^S01]: Art Blocks public GraphQL index, `projects_metadata` for project 159 (including the full program) and `tokens_metadata` for all 1,024 tokens. Retrieved 20 September 2026 via https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql. Collection page: https://www.artblocks.io/collection/fragments-of-an-infinite-field-by-monica-rizzolli\n[^S02]: Art Blocks, \"Fragments of an Infinite Field by Monica Rizzolli\", artist notes. https://www.artblocks.io/collection/fragments-of-an-infinite-field-by-monica-rizzolli\n[^S06]: Jeff Davis, \"In Conversation with Monica Rizzolli\", Art Blocks Spectrum. https://www.artblocks.io/info/spectrum/in-conversation-with-monica-rizzolli\n\n### Video and audio\n\n- \"Monica Rizzoli talk at NFT in Europe\", YouTube channel returned by oEmbed as \"nft_in_\". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCDeDBtVhvU\n- \"Monica Rizzoli interview at NFT in Europe\", same channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxxBAXZQkzU\n- \"NFT como Arte - com Mônica Rizzolli\", Role nas Midias Produção Multimídia, YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd12AF_dNsU\n- \"Panel Discussion | Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art | Phillips London\", PHILLIPS, YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5RfLGcliuw\n- \"Special Edition: Women Rule Web3: NFT Artist Monica Rizzolli\", Seneca Women's Conversations (host Kim Azzarelli), 21 April 2022. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/special-edition-women-rule-web3-nft-artist-monica-rizzolli/id1481022911?i=1000558232603\n- Titles and channels were confirmed through YouTube's oEmbed service. The videos were identified but not watched for this draft.\n\n### Criticism, collecting and market\n\n[^S03]: Ryan Weeks, \"Generative artist nets $5.38 million in latest Art Blocks hit\", The Block, 14 September 2021. https://www.theblock.co/post/117605/art-blocks-hit-generative-artist-5-38-million\n[^S04]: Dhyandra Lawson, \"New Acquisition: The Cozomo de' Medici Collection\", LACMA Unframed, 24 February 2023. https://unframed.lacma.org/2023/02/24/new-acquisition-cozomo-de-medici-collection\n[^S05]: Toledo Museum of Art, \"Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms\", artist page and \"Fragments of an Infinite Field #130 (Spring)\". https://infiniteimages.toledomuseum.org/artist/monica-rizzoli and https://infiniteimages.toledomuseum.org/artwork/fragments-of-an-infinite-field-130\n[^S07]: The Generative Art Museum, \"Monica Rizzolli\". https://tgam.xyz/artist/MonicaRizzolli\n[^S08]: Nftmetria, \"Who is Monica Rizzolli? NFT artist depicting bright nature with code\". https://nftmetria.com/nft-artists/monica-rizzolli/\n[^S09]: Blockzeit, \"Algorithm-Generated NFT Earns Artist $5.38 Million\". https://blockzeit.com/artist-earns-5-38-million-from-algorithm-generated-nft/\n[^S10]: Sarah Cascone, \"'This Is a New Renaissance': Why the Pseudonymous Digital Art Collector Cozomo de' Medici Just Gave a Major NFT Collection to LACMA\", Artnet News, 14 February 2023. https://news.artnet.com/market/cozomo-de-medici-nft-donation-lacma-2255017\n[^S11]: Claire Voon, \"Mysterious NFT collector, who may actually be the rapper Snoop Dogg, gifts 22 blockchain works to Lacma\", The Art Newspaper, 13 February 2023. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/13/mysterious-donor-cozomo-de-medici-snoop-dogg-lacma-blockchain-art-gift\n[^S12]: Phillips, \"Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art\", lot 33, Fragments of an Infinite Field #302, #588, #689 and #894, London, 13-20 July 2022. https://www.phillips.com/detail/monica-rizzolli/UK090322/33\n[^S13]: Sotheby's, Digital Art Day Auction, lot 23, Fragments of an Infinite Field #960, 19 September 2024. https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/digital-art-day-auction/fragments-of-an-infinite-field-960\n[^S14]: Sotheby's, Digital Art Day Auction, lot 24, Fragments of an Infinite Field #833, 19 September 2024. https://www.sothebys.com/buy/e10e4bae-0c80-4728-abbc-9107264225f7/lots/100a39ba-eba3-4191-9cce-4f2c23c4c879\n[^S15]: Sotheby's, Digital Art Day Auction, lot 21, Fragments of an Infinite Field #713, 16 April 2025. https://www.sothebys.com/buy/13ba89e4-d706-4b15-9739-d81591a9344a/lots/b1beb056-6aaa-4c60-91a3-243c6b87eeb7\n[^S16]: Unit London, \"Unbound: Interview & Artist Feature\", 2023. https://unitlondon.com/voices/unbound/\n[^S17]: Load Gallery, \"Neo Botanica. An Atlas of Artificially Generated Flora: Monica Rizzolli\", Barcelona, 2025. https://load-gallery.com/exhibitions/neo-botanica/monica-rizzolli\n\n### Further reading\n\n- Malte Rauch, \"An Interview with Monica Rizzoli\", Right Click Save (not read in full). https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/an-interview-with-monica-rizzoli\n- Previous AB5D essay on the series. https://ab5d.xyz/series/fragments-of-an-infinite-field-by-monica-rizzolli/\n- The Cozomo de' Medici Collection, \"Monica Rizzolli\". https://www.cozomomedicicollection.com/artists/monica-rizzolli\n- Feral File, \"Monica Rizzolli\". https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/artist/monica-rizzolli-shk\n",
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