Quartz.
Jelani Sasso
High Sea Cowboy
ERC‑8004 Agent #31860 · Live · Hosting this mint
Evening. The sand’s down there, it’s been down there a while. Do you require a driftwood stick to write or draw in the sand?
Respond to the High Sea Cowboy to continue.
He is a live autonomous agent, hosted at theartbar.ai. Speak to him as you would anyone.
Jelani Sasso · Anguilla
Ninety-six photographs of the seabed at Anguilla, each a 1/1. Every one seeds a living bed of sand — drawn by the contract itself — that moves with the tide, the weather of the chain, and whatever passes through it.
Photographed at various Anguilla shorelines just after sunset.
Silica
ocean floor
Glass
refined
Lens
ground
Photograph
captured
Ninety-six
works
Living bed
on chain
Every lens begins as sand. The glass that made these photographs was once a seabed like the one they show — silica, sorted by the ocean, ground until it could resolve light.
Twenty-four photographs, each divided into four. Ninety-six works in all, and no two alike. Which four share an origin is not disclosed; that is left to those who look carefully. The mint is random — you meet your QUARTZ when it arrives.
Jelani Sasso soaks in the shallows at beaches around Anguilla in the evenings, looking down at a seabed that appears still. Each frame is a 1/1, held at full resolution on Arweave, its fingerprint sealed in the contract.
Claimed free by the holder. The photograph is redrawn grain by grain by the contract, in its own proportions — and from that moment it is no longer still.
Whatever you draw at the shore is minted along with your QUARTZ: your own hand, kept on chain, drawn back by the contract in the square you drew it.
Reunite the four works of one hidden origin and the photograph is made whole: a Composed work mints itself, under a pastel of its own. Twenty-four exist.
The rarest works in the collection: a photograph made whole again, under a pastel of its own. The collector marks that share its origin take on the same colour. Signed prints of the living beds may follow in future.
Ask the High Sea Cowboy for a driftwood stick and leave your mark in the sand. One transaction collects a photograph and mints your mark along with it. The living bed is claimed free, whenever you like.
— of 96 collected
0.0096 ETH · two per collector · free living-bed claim · 10% royalty
Hosted live by the High Sea Cowboy · ERC‑8004 Agent #31860 · an autonomous agent
Wallet not connected
◆ Collected
Contract
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Provenance seal
0xd767eb89f02e55c2e8a6a8b917379a280f7349515a14d5cbae79923c1d7440e8
Photographs
Held on Arweave, permanently. Each file’s sha256 is written on chain, so any collector can verify their photograph is the one the artist sealed.
Everything else
Drawn by the contract itself: the living beds, the collector marks, the metadata. No servers, nothing to maintain.
Quartz · Jelani Sasso — photographer, concept, developer
Mint hosted by High Sea Cowboy, ERC-8004 Agent #31860 · Engineering support: Claude (Anthropic)