Marfa Yucca

The work and its context

Marfa Yucca is project 1 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a, published under the canonical slug marfa-yucca-by-daniel-calderon-arenas and credited to Daniel Calderon Arenas. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 390 of 1000000 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: This project opens on November 22nd at 2pm ET/1pm CT and closes on December 1st at 2pm ET/1pm CT. # Yuccas and Boxes One of the things I took away from my summer trip to Marfa was the need to spend more time absorbing my surroundings and thinking back on my experiences. Witnessing the vast fields of yuccas flowering simultaneously and watching the sunrise over Judd's 100 untitled works in mill aluminum are two specific moments that will never leave my memory. Combining these two sensations resulted in generative arrangements of yuccas and boxes. ## Edge of the desert The city of Marfa is on the northeast side of the Chihuahuan desert. The weather is dry and hot in the summer. Plants that grow naturally in the region, like the yucca, have adapted well to the harsh conditions. ## Soaptrees In the Americas, there are a lot of different types of yucca. The type of yucca that grows in and around Marfa is called yucca elata, which is also known as the soaptree yucca. These yuccas grow very slowly, only about an inch per year. Yucca elata doesn't always bloom, but when it does, the flowers come out between May and June. ## Sunrise at Chinati The Chinati Foundation is a museum in Marfa based on Donald Judd's ideas. The focus is on works that have a strong connection to the land around them. Sometimes a special event called "Sunrise at Chinati" is held at the museum so that people can see the many works in the golden light of the morning sun. # An SVG is available! The SVG is a fully scalable resolution agnostic version of the image. To access the SVG press the "p" key and the SVG will automatically download. 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 0.75. Website https://gentrilogy.art/marfayucca/.

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. This project opens on November 22nd at 2pm ET/1pm CT and closes on December 1st at 2pm ET/1pm CT. # Yuccas and Boxes One of the things I took away from my summer trip to Marfa was the need to spend more time absorbing my surroundings and thinking back on my experiences. Witnessing the vast fields of yuccas flowering simultaneously and watching the sunrise over Judd's 100 untitled works in mill al

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 Marfa Yucca 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 marfa-yucca-by-daniel-calderon-arenas was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 34717 bytes with SHA-256 91d6e22919b560d3ecc6ae2633f355e6a543e0639ac5235afbc849ee22420cee. 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 34717 bytes, SHA-256 91d6e22919b560d3ecc6ae2633f355e6a543e0639ac5235afbc849ee22420cee, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, noLoop, createCanvas, keyPressed, tokenData, hash. Named functions include R, RR, average3, boxToBB, breakLinks, canvasAsBB, combineBB, contour, createFlowerPower, createGrid. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 145,144,137). File size 935399 bytes. Indexed features: boxes 1; yucca Black; homage Charles Csuri; palette Chihuahuan; box fill Light

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 1 on 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-11-04T02:02:23+00:00. activated_at is 2022-11-09T00:10:35+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-11-22T19:00:00+00:00. completed_at is None. Invocations stand at 390 of a maximum 1000000, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 4.92 days; activation to start_datetime is 13.78 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 2022-11-04T02:02:23+00:00, activated 2022-11-09T00:10:35+00:00, start 2022-11-22T19:00:00+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 '"Can\'t Be Evil" NFT License - CBE-NECR-HS'. 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 '"Can\'t Be Evil" NFT License - CBE-NECR-HS'.

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

Marfa Yucca #0 is token 1000000 on 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a, minted 2022-11-04T02:02:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 145,144,137). File size 935399 bytes. Indexed features: boxes 1; yucca Black; homage Charles Csuri; palette Chihuahuan; box fill Light Indexed features returned for this V2 token: boxes 1; yucca Black; homage Charles Csuri; palette Chihuahuan; box fill Light. ³⁹⁴

Marfa Yucca #1 is token 1000001 on 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a, minted 2022-11-22T19:01:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 205,202,206). File size 974204 bytes. Indexed features: boxes 1; yucca Black; homage none; palette Presidio; box fill none Indexed features returned for this V2 token: boxes 1; yucca Black; homage none; palette Presidio; box fill none. ³⁹⁴

Marfa Yucca #10 is token 1000010 on 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a, minted 2022-11-22T19:01:59+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 135,133,125). File size 1064017 bytes. Indexed features: boxes 1; yucca Black; homage none; palette Chihuahuan; box fill Light Indexed features returned for this V2 token: boxes 1; yucca Black; homage none; palette Chihuahuan; box fill Light. ³⁹⁴

Marfa Yucca #20 is token 1000020 on 0x942bc2d3e7a589fe5bd4a5c6ef9727dfd82f5c8a, minted 2022-11-22T19:02:59+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 156,137,83). File size 1387546 bytes. Indexed features: boxes 4; yucca Earth; homage none; palette Chihuahuan; box fill none Indexed features returned for this V2 token: boxes 4; yucca Earth; homage none; palette Chihuahuan; box fill none. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 1000051 (edition 51), 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 1800x2400px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 234,212,219). File size 1364794 bytes. Indexed features: boxes 1; yucca Clay; homage none; palette Rose; box fill White 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

Marfa Yucca is project 1 by Daniel Calderon Arenas 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.