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Cycles by Material Protocol Arts Lens 261 recorded on March 13, 2026

Cycles by Material Protocol Arts Lens 259 recorded on March 11, 2026

Cycles by Material Protocol Arts Lens 185 recorded on December 15, 2025

Cycles by Material Protocol Arts Lens 175 recorded on November 13, 2025

Cycles by Material Protocol Arts Lens 164 recorded on October 29, 2025

Cycles by Material Protocol Arts Lens 109 recorded on August 20, 2025

🖨️🌸 It’s the end of July, and Absence by our studio Material Protocol Arts is moving into its last phase. In the first phase, from May 17th 2025 to June 22nd 60 visitors purchased thermal prints at Galerie Yeche Lange in downtown Manhattan. Each visitor was allowed to purchase one per visit. Many had never interacted with crypto or NFTs before. In July, collectors were invited to visit their digital flower daily and leave a short message. As they did, the rectangles obscuring the flower were removed. Rectangles for days with no visit became permanent and will never open. Now, July is over. The next and last step is for collectors to decide whether or not to persist their flower, planting it on Ethereum mainnet. To do this, they’ll need to pay for the gas cost to upload their flower and the messages they wrote to it to the blockchain. They’ll have a year to do this. If they choose to persist their flower, it will become transferable and can be transferred out of the smart wallet it was created in and can be vaulted, sold or burned. After a year, the centralized server holding the data for the flowers that have not been persisted will be shut down and those flowers will be replaced with an image saying “this flower is absent”. Those flowers will also become transferable in that state at that time. Absence was issued with an initial supply of 128 pieces. 32 of those were held by Material as artist editions, 16 were given to Galerie Yeche Lange. 80 were made available for sale and of those 60 were sold to gallery visitors. Of the 60 sold, 21 were never visited and claimed. Only one flower was visited every day in July and completely revealed. Two were visited only once and then forgotten. Absence is an experiment and a provocation. It challenges crypto art’s obsession with permanence, frictionlessness and networked attention. It makes demands on the audience, is fragile, geographically local and imperfect. It asks collectors to decide: is this worth paying attention to? Is it worth preserving?

Cycles by Material Protocol Arts Lens 80 recorded on July 5, 2025

Cycles by Material Protocol Arts Lens 55 recorded on June 4, 2025 Tile: indra Color: Soft Clip Region: MAZE Renderer: CRUNCH Ring: 5 (Position 0) Displacement: TILES Glyph: DIAGLYPH Audio: MovingCircles

Cycles is a new artwork dynamically computed on Ethereum L1. It's the first piece from Material Protocol Arts. This lens is from Ring 4 of the kinetic sculpture. Each lens is a real time simulation that changes its behavior based on its onchain position in space. The piece is available to collect, DM with inquiries.