Friendship Bracelets

The work and its context

Friendship Bracelets is project 0 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a, published under the canonical slug friendship-bracelets-by-alexis-andre and credited to Alexis André. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 38965 of 39000 invocations, runtime js@na, and the official description: Since founding Art Blocks in 2020, artist Erick Calderon (a.k.a. Snowfro) has been intrigued by the idea of representing digital artwork in the physical world in the form of an ephemeral physical object with meaning, but with no inherent value. Donald Judd has long been an inspiration for Art Blocks. One aspect we admire most about Judd’s artistic practice is the elegance of design he effortlessly paired with the accessibility of materials that could be found at a hardware store. With Judd as inspiration, we hatched a plan to create a unique generative art friendship bracelet that includes instructions to make, in minutes, a simple bracelet using a few dollars’ worth of embroidery floss. Donald Judd believed that what surrounds us in our day-to-day life is already so beautiful, and that ultimately the experience of creating art is as important as owning it. Erick was incredibly excited to collaborate with renowned artist Alexis André (a.k.a. MacTuitui) to bring generative art and ephemeral physical objects together in the form of friendship bracelets. Conceptualized by Erick and aesthetically and programmatically designed by Alexis, this project pairs creative coding with a beautiful spectrum of embroidery floss colors. The project was a true team effort, as each member of the Art Blocks team designed and named their own color palette! The project is a token of our appreciation to the creators, makers, builders, and collectors who have all contributed to making the Art Blocks community what it is today. Participating in this project is a signal, both online and IRL, that you’re a participant in this evolution of art + community. You are pushing the best ideas forward. You are the reason all of these imaginative projects come to life. Our community is what makes all of this possible. So, to say it plainly, we appreciate you, and we hope that you’ll accept this bracelet as a token of our special friendship! The owner of any wallet with an Art Blocks piece at the time of snapshot (October 26, 2022, at 3pm US Central time) is eligible to claim two mints from this special generative art project. We would love to see you keep one bracelet and share your love for generative art by gifting your second mint! These mints are free to claim (you pay only the gas) and exist on L1 Ethereum. Please note that we may in the future release additional modified iterations of the Friendship Bracelets project, ideally on an L2 scaling solution, that may substantially increase the total supply of tokens related to the project, with the intent of being a more accessible entry point to a larger audience. But this version is what we're here to celebrate today, and this gift is for you in gratitude for your support along the way. Please enjoy this token of our friendship and explore the wonderful artwork created by Alexis André. Then, let's all make bracelets together! Warmly, Alexis + Erick + the Art Blocks team The claim window expires on January 10, 2023, at noon US Central time. Click into the Display Notes for information about making your bracelet. 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 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a. Aspect ratio indexed as 1.0. Website https://info.artblocks.io/spectrum/the-friendship-bracelet-project.

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. Since founding Art Blocks in 2020, artist Erick Calderon (a.k.a. Snowfro) has been intrigued by the idea of representing digital artwork in the physical world in the form of an ephemeral physical object with meaning, but with no inherent value. Donald Judd has long been an inspiration for Art Blocks. One aspect we admire most about Judd’s artistic practice is the elegance of design he effortless

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 Friendship Bracelets 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 friendship-bracelets-by-alexis-andre was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 36441 bytes with SHA-256 e416e984cfe1e0b73297a90939a8849644dbc9a343b581ce822269b693a76952. 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 36441 bytes, SHA-256 e416e984cfe1e0b73297a90939a8849644dbc9a343b581ce822269b693a76952, runtime js@na. Detected source markers: draw, requestAnimationFrame, tokenData, hash. Named functions include Br, Cr, Fr, Ir, Lr, Nr, Rr, Sr, _r, at. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 160,54,21). File size 5922189 bytes. Indexed features: Fill Taaaaall; Vibe Look, mom, it's a flow field!; View Loop; Compass Fine; Corners Some; Palette Marfa Sunset; Atmosphere Clear; Primary Color Orange - 900

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 0 on 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-10-26T20:55:35+00:00. activated_at is 2022-10-27T19:10:23+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-11-03T15:00:00+00:00. completed_at is None. Invocations stand at 38965 of a maximum 39000, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 22.25 hours; activation to start_datetime is 6.83 days; start_datetime to completion is an interval that cannot be calculated from the retrieved timestamps; first mint to completion is an interval that cannot be calculated from the retrieved timestamps. 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 2022-10-26T20:55:35+00:00, activated 2022-10-27T19:10:23+00:00, start 2022-11-03T15:00:00+00:00, completed None. 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 'NFT License'. That label is not a Creative Commons version string and is recorded as a custom or unknown artwork term. 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 'NFT License'.

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

Friendship Bracelets #0 is token 0 on 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a, minted 2022-10-26T20:55:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 160,54,21). File size 5922189 bytes. Indexed features: Fill Taaaaall; Vibe Look, mom, it's a flow field!; View Loop; Compass Fine; Corners Some; Palette Marfa Sunset; Atmosphere Clear; Primary Color Orange - 900 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Fill Taaaaall; Vibe Look, mom, it's a flow field!; View Loop; Compass Fine; Corners Some; Palette Marfa Sunset; Atmosphere Clear; Primary Color Orange - 900. ³⁹⁴

Friendship Bracelets #1 is token 1 on 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a, minted 2022-11-01T23:11:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 161,127,132). File size 6748207 bytes. Indexed features: Fill Smol; Vibe Rings?; View Loop; Compass Fine; Corners Some; Palette ○; Atmosphere Foggy; Primary Color White - Blanc Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Fill Smol; Vibe Rings?; View Loop; Compass Fine; Corners Some; Palette ○; Atmosphere Foggy; Primary Color White - Blanc. ³⁹⁴

Friendship Bracelets #10 is token 10 on 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a, minted 2022-11-01T23:50:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 93,93,93). File size 5341937 bytes. Indexed features: Fill Wiiiiide; Vibe Look, mom, it's a flow field!; View Close up; Compass Broken; Corners Few; Palette B&W; Atmosphere Foggy; Primary Color Black - 310 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Fill Wiiiiide; Vibe Look, mom, it's a flow field!; View Close up; Compass Broken; Corners Few; Palette B&W; Atmosphere Foggy; Primary Color Black - 310. ³⁹⁴

Friendship Bracelets #20 is token 20 on 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a, minted 2022-11-02T00:10:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 171,126,95). File size 7210805 bytes. Indexed features: Fill Taaaaall; Vibe Rings?; View Loop; Compass Broken; Corners Some; Palette Protea ; Atmosphere Foggy; Primary Color Pink - 3706 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Fill Taaaaall; Vibe Rings?; View Loop; Compass Broken; Corners Some; Palette Protea ; Atmosphere Foggy; Primary Color Pink - 3706. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 7064 (edition 7064), 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, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 108,110,68). File size 4534231 bytes. Indexed features: Fill Wiiiiide; Vibe Rings?; View Close up; Compass Fine; Corners Some; Palette der Geheimnisträger; Atmosphere Clear; Primary Color Black - 310 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

Friendship Bracelets is project 0 by Alexis André on 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a. 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.