Hōrō

The work and its context

Hōrō is project 301 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, published under the canonical slug horo-by-makio135 and credited to makio135. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 400 of 400 invocations, runtime js@na, and the official description: For as long as I can remember, I've always loved walking around the city. The crowds, the movements, the colors, the lights... As I grew up, I learned to explore the different corners, always on the lookout for new alleys to explore, the desire to discover again and again particular architectures, saturated spaces, paintings or stickers never seen before, frozen traces of passages in these anthills that are our cities. Hōrō is an invitation to stop time to make room for exploration, observation and contemplation in scenes mixing the purity of architectural lines with the unpredictable movements of passers-by, where Jackson Pollock meets Anni Albers, and Hassan Massoudy meets Piet Mondrian. So many influences that mix to create an explosion of movement and send us back to physical, digital or spiritual wanderings, in which we can both get lost and find ourselves. The Hōrō series proposes to explore representations of multiple flows through different abstract areas, while playing on a wide chromatic diversity rich with 55 palettes inspired by as many graffiti artists, urban calligraphers using color as a trace of their passages. "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." - Thomas Merton On live view, press num keys [1-9] to redraw and export an up to 9x resolution version of the scene. Hōrō, the Art of Wandering Lionel Radisson | makio135 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

js@na. Licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Splatter behind shutters.

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

Official wandering account is used. Token 0 is red-grey splatter behind blue-grey bars.

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 Hōrō are the ones relied on. ⁵¹

Sentences that name another project are not treated as statements about this slug. ²⁵

How the work was constructed

The complete artist program for slug horo-by-makio135 was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 8079 bytes with SHA-256 cc8c0ee646b5b76375118a9fa72c727cd5196c6a7bb494b61699cd7c3db4c882. Runtime on the project record is js@na. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. ⁶

8079-byte vanilla JS. Token 0 is the inspected shuttered splatter.

Visual claims come from inspected PNGs of the listed token IDs.

Seed handling is visible in the retrieved program: Hash selects bar count and splatter density. Time and interaction behaviour in code is: Possible motion not timed. No audio. 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 Additional construction notes follow so that the seed-to-pixel path stays explicit. Hash bytes are consumed in the order written in the retrieved file; later visual variety is a consequence of those draws, not of an off-chain renderer swapping assets. Preview images produced by the media proxy compress a live or completed state into one PNG, which is useful for colour and composition and insufficient for duration. Canonical token pages confirm identity when they return HTTP 200 for the exact contract and token ID pair used in the examples list. Rights language is copied from the project record rather than inferred from neighbouring Art Blocks series. Where an interview discusses a different project by the same artist, that passage is not treated as a statement about this slug.

The mint

Indexed chronology for project 301 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-04-27T08:03:57+00:00. activated_at is 2022-04-29T02:12:15+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-05-23T19:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-05-23T19:29:29+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 42.14 hours; activation to start_datetime is 24.70 days; start_datetime to completion is 29.5 minutes; first mint to completion is 26.48 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 2022-04-27T08:03:57+00:00, activated 2022-04-29T02:12:15+00:00, start 2022-05-23T19:00:00+00:00, completed 2022-05-23T19:29:29+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 Early invocations can carry minted_at values hours or days before start_datetime; those rows are listed individually in evidence.json rather than averaged into a single public-open clock.

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

Hōrō #0 is token 301000000 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-04-27T08:03:57+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Pale blue poster of red-grey splatters behind a shutter of horizontal bars. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Lights Red; Fatcaps 0; Palette Mire; Distance 2; Wandering The Journey; Composition The Limits; Flow Amount 5; Stroke Style Rounded. ³⁹⁴

Hōrō #1 is token 301000001 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-05-23T19:01:17+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Second Horo sheet. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Lights Red; Fatcaps 0; Palette Xone; Distance 1; Wandering The Drift; Composition The Limits; Flow Amount 3; Stroke Style Rounded. ³⁹⁴

Hōrō #10 is token 301000010 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-05-23T19:21:12+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Tenth public mint. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Lights Red; Fatcaps 0; Palette Jazy; Distance 2; Wandering The Drift; Composition The Alleys; Flow Amount 4; Stroke Style Rounded. ³⁹⁴

Hōrō #20 is token 301000020 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-05-23T19:23:33+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Twentieth public mint. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Lights Red; Fatcaps 4; Palette Rezist; Distance 1; Wandering The Exploration; Composition The Limits; Flow Amount 2; Stroke Style Rounded. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 301000138 (edition 138), 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. AB5D Horo holding. ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: Possible motion not timed. No audio. 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

Hōrō is project 301 by makio135. 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. Additional construction notes follow so that the seed-to-pixel path stays explicit. Hash bytes are consumed in the order written in the retrieved file; later visual variety is a consequence of those draws, not of an off-chain renderer swapping assets. Preview images produced by the media proxy compress a live or completed state into one PNG, which is useful for colour and composition and insufficient for duration. Canonical token pages confirm identity when they return HTTP 200 for the exact contract and token ID pair used in the examples list. Rights language is copied from the project record rather than inferred from neighbouring Art Blocks series. Where an interview discusses a different project by the same artist, that passage is not treated as a statement about this slug.