October 6, 2026

The first generative art project deployed on ABX on Ethereum.

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Now, in Marfa, Texas Central Time 30.3095° N · 104.0206° W Sun --° · Moon --%

Now live on Ethereum

Marfa Light

Every token is a working clock for Marfa, Texas. The hash chooses the clock, how it is made, and where it stands. The minute comes from the sky.

Now minting on Ethereum · 0.069 ETH

Live · Marfa time

Loading the enginethree.js r124 · one file

Time

Hour of the day

12:00

Date in MarfaOr a day on the calendar

Clock

Film stock

Camera

Token

Token hash

Save this token

Saved files also collect in a tray below.

Every token keeps one annual appointment with the sun. Choose Alignment to see it.

Compare the submitted and developed work · Enter the arcade

In dialogue with Art Blocks

The landscape scores and paint are MLow’s original systems. On this website, the four reference displays show official artwork previews; choose a work to run its original Art Blocks player. The standalone token retains credited MLow studies.

Wall label

Clock

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Computed on this page, for today

The sky over Marfa

The same sun and moon model the clocks use. The page's own colour follows it, set by the sun's elevation at this minute: night, twilight, the low sun, and day.

Elevation through the day, local time

SunMoon

The sky dome, plan view, north up

TodayNoon, all year

The piece is not a picture of time. It keeps it.

The code computes the sun and the moon for Marfa's coordinates and the minute you are looking, turns the stars by sidereal time, and lights the scene from those numbers alone.

Nine of the twenty-nine clocks read the sky. Eight are sundials built for latitude 30.3°, from a horizontal dial to a heliochronometer and a noon cannon fired by a burning glass. Their shadows are real and read Central Time. The ninth is a nocturnal that reads the hour from the Big Dipper. The rest keep time by flaps, water, sand, words, gears, fire, wind, and the turning of the Earth under a Foucault pendulum.

Each stands somewhere real: Chinati's field of concrete boxes, US 90 across from Prada Marfa, the Marfa Lights viewing area after dark, with the Davis and Chinati Mountains on the horizon.

One JavaScript file on three.js r124, the version Art Blocks stores onchain. It reads a token hash and the clock, loads nothing, and computes every texture. No model runs at any point.

One token · April 17, 2027, inside the residency

A day at one dial

A horizontal sundial, drawn by the engine in your browser at seven moments of one day. Scroll, and the sun moves.

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29 clocks · 19 places · 3 courts

Every kind of clock

One token of each kind, rendered by the engine. Choose one to bring that exact token up live, at this minute in Marfa.

Live · straight from the generator, in your browser

Twelve draws

Random hashes, drawn one at a time so the page stays quick. No two share their full set of traits. Choose one to open it above.

Seven film stocks

One token on all seven. Every token is shot on one; press F on the live token to try the others.

66 seconds · real engine frames · score on a 120 BPM grid

The film

Every shot is the engine rendering a token, cut to a score synthesised on the same timeline. Sound plays when you press play.

Noon cannon firing at local noon — Noon cannon at noon

19 places · behind every one, the real skyline

Where they stand

The Davis Mountains to the north, the Chinati Mountains to the southwest, the Sierra Vieja to the west. Roofed places refuse clocks that need the sun or the open air.

Tallied live from 900 hashes on this page

The generative layer

Nine traits every token carries, drawn from their own part of the hash. Sky events obey the real sky: rainbows need a monsoon and a low sun behind you, sun dogs sit 22° from the sun, meteors come from the real radiant of the month's shower.

Two to seven in every token

Look closer

Every token hides a handful of these. Click one in the live scene to read about it.

Twenty-one days a year

The calendar

The clock knows what day it is in Marfa. On these days every token marks the occasion its own way, drawn from its own seed. Jewish days begin at sundown, worked out from the Hebrew calendar inside the script, with no network. Choose one under Or a day on the calendar above, or press K in the live scene.

Jul 4Fireworks from dusk to midnight. Shells burst as real Chromie Squiggles, stars, rings and an evil eye. On the hour, the token’s own Squiggle.
Jun 19Juneteenth fireworks in the flag’s red, white and blue, with its star and nova.
Jan 1Midnight: the token’s own Squiggle, then a finale in gold and silver.
TishriRosh Hashanah, rings of gold in the shofar’s calls. Yom Kippur, memorial candles. Sukkot, a sukkah by the clock. Simchat Torah, seven circles of light dancing round it.
KislevHanukkah. A menorah, one more candle each night from sundown, and a dreidel that spins and falls.
SpringTu BiShvat almond blossom, Purim confetti, the sea parting at night for Passover, Lag BaOmer bonfires, Shavuot greenery and petals.
Oct 31Halloween. Jack-o’-lanterns, and bats at dusk.
Nov 1–2Día de los Muertos. A marigold path to the clock, papel picado, candles at night.
SunSolstices and equinoxes. Lines of light to where the sun rises and sets that day.
AprilResidency Day, each token’s own: the date of its still. A blossom of light turns over the clock and brightens at its minute.
Labor DayMarfa Lights Festival weekend. The mystery lights under the Chinati skyline, which also turn up, rarely, on any night. Their bearings, brightness and pace come from Zach Warren’s sight-line study, Separating the known from the unknown at Marfa, Texas. A development since the mint: this website shows it; minted tokens keep the onchain version.

Memories · 612 deterministic renderers in 87 families

Where the light model started

My open source onchain renderer system. The first five are drawn for Marfa's coordinates on April 17, 2027. The last seven are SIGNAL, screen-native abstracts from the same catalogue. The sun model and the Blossom grid in Marfa Light both came from here.

What the page says about itself

Computed, and not yet

Four weeks in Marfa move items from the second and third columns into the first.

Computed

Sun position, rise and set, for any minute
Moon position, phase, rise and set
Stars turned by sidereal time, the galaxy included
Hour lines for latitude 30.3° and Marfa's longitude
The equation of time, as a figure eight some dials carry
Central Time and daylight saving
Real shadows, by sun or by moon

Set by eye

Sky colours at each elevation
Ground and mountain colours
Exposure as the light drops
The seven film stocks

Not yet

Shadow edges checked against a real gnomon
Measured sky colour from the casita
Volumetric cloud and haze
Light bounced between objects

Spring 2027 · any four weeks, March 1 to May 31, April preferred

Four weeks in Marfa

At a desk the sky colours are guesses. In Marfa I can measure them, check the dials against a real gnomon, and lock the series so each token mints with a minute from the residency and keeps Marfa time after.

Measure

Sky at five elevations, ground, and shadow edges at the concrete works and on the lot. A real gnomon against the dial's hour lines and its noon mark.

Correct

Replace every colour set by eye with a measured one. Photograph a gray card at dawn, noon, and the last hour, and bring the readings back to the code the same night.

Lock

Fix the residency minutes. Set the features. Cut the script to size. Draw a thousand outputs and cut what is weak.

Show

The closing session at the Art Blocks Gallery: clocks on the wall in Marfa time, the code beside them, the audience choosing the minute. The script goes to Art Blocks Studio.

Why Marfa

Chinati is the founding case for generative art before computers. Judd's 100 works in mill aluminum are one box, one set of rules, and one hundred interiors, and the light through the shed windows finishes each one. The concrete works stand in a field and let the sun do the rest. These clocks borrow that logic: fixed rules, serial variation, and light doing the work.

What I need

The casita, a desk, and reliable internet. I bring my own machines, a camera, a gray card, and a plumb line.
The casita's exact coordinates, and permission to set a temporary gnomon and shoot time-lapse on the lot.
The gallery's displays for the closing session.
One conversation with Art Blocks engineering in week one on Studio script limits and the three.js r124 dependency. The script is about 777 KB minified in v0.10.

Michael Low (MLow) · New York

The artist

I came to code through models. Since 2018 I have trained on my own paintings and curated by hand. This year I built Memories, an open source system that stores the drawing program onchain. The sun model in Marfa Light started there.

50exhibitions

13countries shown

5,000+NYC taxis carrying the work

7,541painted characters in NEW YORKERS

2026The Soft Conspiracy, with Andrés Del Vecchio. 5,299 pieces curated from a 12,020-image pool.
2026Memories. Open source onchain renderer system, 612 directions in 87 families.
OngoingThe Salon. A walkable 3D gallery of 22+ rooms, built in three.js.
OngoingNEW YORKERS. A painted census of New York and a walkable museum of 136 rooms.
2024Squiggles mobile game at MONA, made with Art Blocks, Snowfro and Tom Sachs Rocket Factory.
2025Unchained. Inscribed on Bitcoin.
2023Nervous Breakdown. Twelve artists, one dynamic token.

Recognition

2024Winner, Optimism We Love The Art, AI category.
2023Finalist, Claire Silver AI Art Competition.
FinalistSam Spratt, Mask of Luci competition.
SolverPindar Van Arman, First Sparks onchain puzzle.
FeaturedBeeple’s Gallery Showcase, three times. Exhibited during Art Basel.
PartnerAdobe Firefly Creative Partner Ambassador. Creative partner to Flora, Dreamina and Wide World AI.
HostThe MLow Show, conversations with AI and onchain artists, on the Rug Radio network.
GivingPart of a campaign that raised $250K for St. Jude.

Education

2026New York University, Wagner. Master of Public Administration, Public and Nonprofit Management.
2021New York University. BA, Environmental Studies and Public Policy, magna cum laude.