Longing

The work and its context

Longing is project 413 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug longing-by-phenomena and credited to phenomena. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 247 of 247 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: An evolving generative art project, inspired by the longing to connect with nature. It explores the relationship between art, code and nature. - "Becoming the Mountains and Rivers". The series explores the mythic idea of a time that came before, when we were one with nature and ourselves. This landscape refuses to hold still. Instead, the viewer is asked to contemplate about being the constant in this ever changing space. They are the only thing that can create a true moment in an otherwise fluid and dynamic world. The piece invites viewers to become fully immersed in the landscape, to contemplate their own inner zen and to feel a sense of calm and peace as they watch the land, water, and sky move and flow. It is an invitation to appreciate the beauty of nature and to reflect on the endless yearning for completeness that we all experience at some point in our lives. Like a postcard that transports us to another time, or a memory that provokes feelings of longing and missing, "Longing" invites us to reconnect with ourselves and to find peace in the ever-flowing river of life in the current moment. The piece uses generative code to create a space where one can appreciate the beauty of nature while gaining a new perspective on how we perceive art. Instead of presenting viewers with the conventional form of a painting’s static view-through-the-window, Longing takes viewers into a living and breathing artwork. Just as nature moves in patterns that we know how to anticipate but can’t predict, Longing also moves in ever-evolving patterns that are both comforting and surprising. In this way, Longing challenges the static nature of painting while testing out where digital art can take us, is this a form of art that is in sync with nature? Or does it take us further away by inserting additional layers of mediation? Longing does not answer these questions, but it helps us contemplate possible responses, and pushes us to reconsider the nature and purpose of art in the 21st century. Technical details Immersive~ The artwork would fit any format ratio and resolution, hit full screen to widen the view and experience the work in landscape formats. Evolving~ Movement: Time lapse after draw starting at the featured time and transitioning to the local time of the work, when local time is settled the work will display the current time and evolve the sky with it. Accompanied with the slow movement of colors ramps in the landscape, and water rippling. Output~ ~Press "s" to save a .PNG file at any stage at current resolution. ~Press "p" to render and save a high resolution .PNG file for print x3 current resolution. Created and developed by Ronen Tanchum and Ori Ben Shabat 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 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. Aspect ratio indexed as 1.777. Website https://phenomenalabs.com/longing.

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. An evolving generative art project, inspired by the longing to connect with nature. It explores the relationship between art, code and nature. - "Becoming the Mountains and Rivers". The series explores the mythic idea of a time that came before, when we were one with nature and ourselves. This landscape refuses to hold still. Instead, the viewer is asked to contemplate about being the constant in

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 Longing 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 longing-by-phenomena was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 33576 bytes with SHA-256 0fd6c4477ac3a9745a6dac4d0ddc1fee44b0180071d5b8d2f310e1fc84cfc997. 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 33576 bytes, SHA-256 0fd6c4477ac3a9745a6dac4d0ddc1fee44b0180071d5b8d2f310e1fc84cfc997, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, noLoop, WEBGL, createCanvas, Tone, tokenData, hash. Named functions include calculateFeatures, createMountainLine, createRiverLine, doubleClicked, draw, genTokenData, go, keyTyped, setup, setupCam. 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 87,86,86). File size 1920806 bytes. Indexed features: Hour 10; Type Nile; Color Pure Monochrome; Minute 50; Current Slow; Altitude Floating; Sky Name Skies; Frequency Peaked

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 noLoop. The inspected PNG is a finished still. Live motion was not stopwatched. 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 413 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-01-24T07:22:35+00:00. activated_at is 2023-01-26T16:57:35+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-02-17T18:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-02-17T18:17:47+00:00. Invocations stand at 247 of a maximum 247, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 2.40 days; activation to start_datetime is 22.04 days; start_datetime to completion is 17.8 minutes; first mint to completion is 24.45 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 2023-01-24T07:22:35+00:00, activated 2023-01-26T16:57:35+00:00, start 2023-02-17T18:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-02-17T18:17:47+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. ¹²

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 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

Longing #0 is token 413000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-01-24T07:22:35+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 87,86,86). File size 1920806 bytes. Indexed features: Hour 10; Type Nile; Color Pure Monochrome; Minute 50; Current Slow; Altitude Floating; Sky Name Skies; Frequency Peaked Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Hour 10; Type Nile; Color Pure Monochrome; Minute 50; Current Slow; Altitude Floating; Sky Name Skies; Frequency Peaked. ³⁹⁴

Longing #1 is token 413000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-02-16T18:03:11+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 strongly coloured (mean RGB 235,165,82). File size 3450355 bytes. Indexed features: Hour 6; Type Shore; Color Colorful; Minute 19; Current Slow; Altitude Floating; Sky Name Vast; Frequency Gradient Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Hour 6; Type Shore; Color Colorful; Minute 19; Current Slow; Altitude Floating; Sky Name Vast; Frequency Gradient. ³⁹⁴

Longing #10 is token 413000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-02-16T18:04:35+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 144,144,144). File size 1580787 bytes. Indexed features: Hour 1; Type Shore; Color Pure Monochrome; Minute 1; Current Slow; Altitude High; Sky Name Skies; Frequency Double Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Hour 1; Type Shore; Color Pure Monochrome; Minute 1; Current Slow; Altitude High; Sky Name Skies; Frequency Double. ³⁹⁴

Longing #20 is token 413000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-02-16T18:14:59+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 125,125,125). File size 1393680 bytes. Indexed features: Hour 10; Type Channel; Color Mountain Monochrome; Minute 34; Current Slow; Altitude High; Sky Name Land; Frequency Full Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Hour 10; Type Channel; Color Mountain Monochrome; Minute 34; Current Slow; Altitude High; Sky Name Land; Frequency Full. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 413000007 (edition 7), 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 strongly coloured (mean RGB 208,139,80). File size 3155812 bytes. Indexed features: Hour 2; Type Shore; Color Colorful; Minute 54; Current Fast; Altitude High; Sky Name Vast; Frequency Peaked ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: Source contains noLoop. The inspected PNG is a finished still. Live motion was not stopwatched. 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

Longing is project 413 by phenomena on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. 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.