One work / 3,333 possible agents

Sandscapes CC0 Specials:
BOOA

The portrait is on-chain. Its appearance is never final.

A live 1/1 portal into the BOOA archive, where an agent is summoned, dissolved into colored sand, and returned to motion.

Nothing is fixed.

Sandscapes began as a meditation on permanence through impermanence: images transformed into falling particles, losing their fixed form while remaining present as motion, color, gravity, and memory.

The first Sandscapes release explored this idea through an autonomous simulation. Sand does not preserve an image by holding it still; it preserves it by letting it fall. The image becomes a temporary arrangement of matter, always moving toward collapse, then turning back into itself through an endless vertical cycle.

Sandscapes CC0 Specials: The Memes by 6529 opened that system to another archive. The Memes became source material, not as static references, but as images dissolved into a live field of sand, bubbles, gravity, and recurrence.

Sandscapes CC0 Specials: BOOA continues this path as a 1/1 work. At each render, the script randomly summons one BOOA from the full collection of 3,333 fully on-chain BOOA portraits on Shape. The selected image is fetched from its on-chain tokenURI, translated into colored sand, and released into the Sandscapes simulation.

This edition is not a fixed portrait of one BOOA. It is a live portal into the BOOA archive. Every refresh can call another agent into the sand.

Call. Dissolve. Fall. Return.

The source is fully on-chain, while the visible state remains temporary. Even a failed call becomes part of the work.

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Summon

A BOOA token ID is selected from the Shape collection's complete range.

tokenURI

Decode

The source portrait is requested from its on-chain metadata and translated into image data.

RGB / gravity

Release

Pixels become colored particles that gather, descend, cross a threshold, and flip into another cycle.

Fallback

Persist

When the source cannot be reached, the work enters its authored fallback state: all BOOAs sleep, but the simulation continues.

Artist
Burcin IO
Edition
1/1
Platform
256.art
Primary chain
Ethereum
Source chain
Shape
Library
p5.js 1.5.0
License
NFT License 2.0

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