Nära

The work and its context

Nära is project 437 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug nara-by-tengil and credited to Tengil. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 280 of 280 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: Nära explores the connections that make us human. Nära (close or near in Swedish) is a celebration of friendships and relationships throughout our lives. How some of them are small, fleeting and ephemeral while a select few become lifelong bonds. The work examines the intricate graphs that are formed by these connections. Graphs are all around us and have existed for as long as we have been human. From early settlements of hunter-gatherers and nomadic tribes to the internet of today. It's all graphs. Nära allows the viewer to explore and experience these graphs as a metaphor for the organic, organised chaos that is life. Shapes connect from one node in a graph to the next, sometimes spilling over, doubling down and creating layers of intricacy. Imperfection is embraced and Nära exposes the chaotic and unpredictable elements of life. The artistic vision of Nära is to highlight and expose graphs in a tactile manner that allows the viewer to see the whole graph, but also engage with the details and texture. In doing this, Nära attempts to bring a novel contribution by pushing the boundaries of graph representation and introducing an emotional dimension to this oftentimes rigid and scientific discipline. By treating graphs as a metaphor for relationships in life, they become an integral part of the concept and an important artistic tool. Nära takes inspiration from the De Stijl movement in reducing the world into a deliberate expression in its smallest form and builds upon the use of shapes imbued with meaning in the works of Hilma af Klint. These ideas are expanded on by accepting that what is deliberate must also relinquish some control through the pseudo-randomness of generative art. This invites reflection on the balance of control and chance in our lives. Through Nära, you are invited to reflect on the connections in your own life and on the significance of the relationships that define us as human beings. To interact with the script: - Press 's' to save. - Add the following to the URL: - pd=x, where x is a number to control the resolution via pixel density (useful for rendering high resolution stills) - rs=x, where x is a number to enable and control the rendering buildup animation. 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 0.707. Website https://www.tengil.art/art/nara.

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. Nära explores the connections that make us human. Nära (close or near in Swedish) is a celebration of friendships and relationships throughout our lives. How some of them are small, fleeting and ephemeral while a select few become lifelong bonds. The work examines the intricate graphs that are formed by these connections. Graphs are all around us and have existed for as long as we have been h

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 Nära 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 nara-by-tengil was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 25881 bytes with SHA-256 8c78db3428eaad25cbb94dfd3f97ed083c12fbcabfc6e70008976d4ca21e3f31. 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 25881 bytes, SHA-256 8c78db3428eaad25cbb94dfd3f97ed083c12fbcabfc6e70008976d4ca21e3f31, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, noLoop, WEBGL, createCanvas, keyPressed, tokenData, hash, colorMode. Named functions include e. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1697x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 129,141,125). File size 5830051 bytes. Indexed features: Size Small; Border No; Palette FB; Topology Splatter; Perspective Two Point; Shape Family Waves; Edge Treatment Darken; Graph Creation Prim

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 437 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-03-16T16:12:47+00:00. activated_at is 2023-03-22T22:28:47+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-05-15T17:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-05-15T20:50:47+00:00. Invocations stand at 280 of a maximum 280, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 6.26 days; activation to start_datetime is 53.77 days; start_datetime to completion is 3.85 hours; first mint to completion is 60.19 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 2023-03-16T16:12:47+00:00, activated 2023-03-22T22:28:47+00:00, start 2023-05-15T17:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-05-15T20:50:47+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 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 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

Nära #0 is token 437000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-03-16T16:12:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1697x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 129,141,125). File size 5830051 bytes. Indexed features: Size Small; Border No; Palette FB; Topology Splatter; Perspective Two Point; Shape Family Waves; Edge Treatment Darken; Graph Creation Prim Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Size Small; Border No; Palette FB; Topology Splatter; Perspective Two Point; Shape Family Waves; Edge Treatment Darken; Graph Creation Prim. ³⁹⁴

Nära #1 is token 437000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-05-15T17:02:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1697x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 161,164,143). File size 8529280 bytes. Indexed features: Size Lagom; Border Yes; Palette Falsterbo; Topology Splatter; Perspective Flat; Shape Family Blend; Edge Treatment Darken; Graph Creation Fully Random Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Size Lagom; Border Yes; Palette Falsterbo; Topology Splatter; Perspective Flat; Shape Family Blend; Edge Treatment Darken; Graph Creation Fully Random. ³⁹⁴

Nära #10 is token 437000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-05-15T17:31:59+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1697x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 64,68,79). File size 8143714 bytes. Indexed features: Size Lagom; Border Yes; Palette Tokyo; Topology Fluid; Perspective One Point; Shape Family Blend; Edge Treatment Darken; Graph Creation Fully Random Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Size Lagom; Border Yes; Palette Tokyo; Topology Fluid; Perspective One Point; Shape Family Blend; Edge Treatment Darken; Graph Creation Fully Random. ³⁹⁴

Nära #20 is token 437000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-05-15T17:32:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1697x2400px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 219,213,201). File size 5634509 bytes. Indexed features: Size Big; Border Yes; Palette Falsterbo; Topology Fluid; Perspective Two Point; Shape Family Griddish; Edge Treatment Darken; Graph Creation Restricted Random Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Size Big; Border Yes; Palette Falsterbo; Topology Fluid; Perspective Two Point; Shape Family Griddish; Edge Treatment Darken; Graph Creation Restricted Random. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 437000036 (edition 36), 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 1697x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 179,151,127). File size 9276229 bytes. Indexed features: Size Lagom; Border No; Palette Tennis on the Beach; Topology Euclid; Perspective Flat; Shape Family Griddish; Edge Treatment Darken; Graph Creation Fully Random 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

Nära is project 437 by Tengil 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.