Neural Sediments

The work and its context

Neural Sediments is project 418 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug neural-sediments-by-eko33 and credited to Eko33. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 300 of 300 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: # Neural Sediments ## “Before objectivity, there was truth to nature; after the advent of objectivity came trained judgment” Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison Improving my decision-making process is how I would sum up my lifelong quest. Understanding yourself and the unlimited variables and actors surrounding us daily requires a radical yet utopian pursuit of objectivity. A prerequisite to an objective observation is identifying and eliminating cognitive and observational biases. My obsession with objectivity started as a sociology student; while studying epistemology of science and pondering the works of Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Popper. This quest never left me and has been a cornerstone of my artistic practice for 25 years. “The map is not the territory” is a mainstream expression highlighting a potentially oversimplified version of reality. In this series called Neural Sediments, inspired by the works of Alberto Burri, František Kupka, and Swiss topography, I highlight the complexity of our brains and some of their biases. Looking at one Neural Sediment will deliver you a first broad impression; however, looking at it for a longer time will yield a never-ending and much more nuanced and delicate observation. Like Alberto Burri’s Cracks series, some things not obvious to the eye become real over time. Each Neural Sediment opens itself to the viewer in a unique way. The more you look at it, the more you can decipher it. Like Swiss alpine glacier sediments, this material appears only after a certain amount of time and a decent amount of gravity. Burri used a special technique to envision time with cracked canvas; František Kupka, in his Katedrála painting, opens the fourth dimension by looking at the vertical lines of the glass window. In the Neural Sediments series, I used both as an inspiration to push the viewer’s eye to search for more details and a deeper perspective. Choosing color palettes for a long-form generative art collection is as demanding as solving technical algorithmic challenges. The color palettes I create result from a process I've built into my practice over time. Each palette comes from my own algorithmic selection trained on classical masterpieces. After this first selection, each set of colors used in a Neural Sediment is re-arranged to be linked with endangered ecosystems such as dark blue waters, peach salmons, rare botanic species, or volcanos. Like Josef Albers, who highlighted the instability and deceptiveness of colors, my color sets are here to reinforce the question of objectivity in the art world and life in general. Looking at its overall structure, each Neural Sediment evokes a brutalist architecture. Prioritizing function over form, each Neural Sediment aims to be used as a tool to rediscover oneself, free from the cognitive constraints we put on ourselves and the world around us. PS: From a technical point of view, Neural Sediments require some heavy calculations, considering the very large number of intersections to compute prior to rendering. PPS: Pressing the letter “i” on your keyboard will generate a high resolution export for a large scale and print friendly format. 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 0.75. Website https://www.eko33.com/neural-sediments.

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. # Neural Sediments ## “Before objectivity, there was truth to nature; after the advent of objectivity came trained judgment” Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison Improving my decision-making process is how I would sum up my lifelong quest. Understanding yourself and the unlimited variables and actors surrounding us daily requires a radical yet utopian pursuit of objectivity. A prerequisite to an obj

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 Neural Sediments 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 neural-sediments-by-eko33 was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 77370 bytes with SHA-256 4630ef6bda23813c02286d13258248e163fb949b3812f1aa793ba745df8f4959. 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 77370 bytes, SHA-256 4630ef6bda23813c02286d13258248e163fb949b3812f1aa793ba745df8f4959, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, noLoop, createCanvas, keyPressed, tokenData, hash, colorMode. Named functions include CoordRounder, DEFAULT_COMPARE, MultiPolyIn, MultiPolyOut, Node, Operation, PolyIn, PolyOut, PtRounder, RingIn. 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 strongly coloured (mean RGB 115,154,176). File size 6705009 bytes. Indexed features: Mode Burchelli; Palette logical fallacy

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 418 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-04-14T06:50:47+00:00. activated_at is 2023-05-30T22:10:11+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-06-07T17:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-06-07T17:33:23+00:00. Invocations stand at 300 of a maximum 300, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 46.64 days; activation to start_datetime is 7.78 days; start_datetime to completion is 33.4 minutes; first mint to completion is 54.45 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 2023-04-14T06:50:47+00:00, activated 2023-05-30T22:10:11+00:00, start 2023-06-07T17:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-06-07T17:33:23+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

Neural Sediments #0 is token 418000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-04-14T06:50:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 115,154,176). File size 6705009 bytes. Indexed features: Mode Burchelli; Palette logical fallacy Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Mode Burchelli; Palette logical fallacy. ³⁹⁴

Neural Sediments #1 is token 418000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-06-07T17:01:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 137,168,168). File size 5327773 bytes. Indexed features: Mode Facetious; Palette false priors Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Mode Facetious; Palette false priors. ³⁹⁴

Neural Sediments #10 is token 418000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-06-07T17:21:11+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 162,190,190). File size 6366416 bytes. Indexed features: Mode Epic Cliff; Palette framing effect Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Mode Epic Cliff; Palette framing effect. ³⁹⁴

Neural Sediments #20 is token 418000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-06-07T17:25:35+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 193,202,202). File size 4930383 bytes. Indexed features: Mode Riddle; Palette framing effect Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Mode Riddle; Palette framing effect. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 418000203 (edition 203), 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, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 131,166,166). File size 7120791 bytes. Indexed features: Mode Nocturnal Rhizome; Palette framing effect 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

Neural Sediments is project 418 by Eko33 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.