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[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

A full minute of Gift of Time #179.

So many details and little moments across this piece… there’s always something new to notice.

This one also has some really rare track designs that are hard to find 👀

[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

I’ve gotten a few requests to show some of the work I made before going all in on code and algorithmic art… 🤓

So here are a few examples 👀

Interesting to look back and still recognize some of the same ideas and obsessions in them.

[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

Great dinner in Lisbon during @NFCsummit with lots of familiar faces from the space. Great spending time with @dotjiwa and @EfdotStudio (in the picture), also @Dalos @durtis 🍷

Fado, good food and great conversations all night. Thanks @adamilenich from @opensea and @jokawaharalino from @LoreStudio_io for organizing it! 🙏🏼

[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

Road trip from A Coruña to Lisbon for NFC 🚗 @NFCsummit

See you soon Lisboa!! 🙌🏼

[CypherPunks @CypherPunksArt]

What if a piece of art was never finished, never still, never quite the same as the last time you looked at it. That is the question running through Manuel Lariño’s work...

https://t.co/MS2i3ZTLbc @ManuelLarino

[Isa- @ISA_NFTs]

In love with the movement of Gift of Time #196 by @ManuelLarino

And the color! That green! 💚

And the rubberband that looks like it's going to break but doesn't. Hypnotic

[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

In Gift of Time, movement is tied to blockchain time. Everything starts from a fixed epoch, a specific moment chosen as the origin point from which all movement is measured: June 4, 2025, 4:52 PM, the moment I arrived in Marfa.

The latest ETH block timestamp, the moment the newest Ethereum block is created, becomes the present reference.

When you load one of the 365 pieces, you don’t begin the motion; you step into a clock that has already been running since that day.

The movement didn’t begin when you opened it, and it won’t stop when you close it. It will keep moving forever.

[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

Seasonal tempo:
The hands don’t tick at one speed all year. They breathe with the seasons, speed up at the solstices and equinoxes, and ease back to their regular tempo in between. 🕙

Gift of Time #5

[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

Thank you all so much for the incredible response to Gift of Time.

I’m honestly grateful to see this project connect with so many people, from so many different places and backgrounds.

I originally planned to share more about how the system works while the mint was live… but it sold out before I had the chance. :)

So I wanted to start digging a little deeper into some of the questions I’ve been getting.
One of the most asked about elements has been the moon phase calendar.

Moon phases are built directly into the system, slowly transforming the colored circles within the mechanism, forms that act almost like pupils, expanding and contracting over time, like in this animated sketch.

And this is just one layer.

Gift of Time is made from multiple interconnected systems, each subtly influencing the work as time passes.

@artblocks_io + @opensea

[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

Thank you so much, everyone. 🙏🏼

After a month in Marfa thanks to @artblocks_io and @opensea , and 9 more months building Gift of Time, seeing it sell out in under 2 minutes is honestly overwhelming.

My time in Marfa was truly inspiring, and I wanted to fully integrate all the ideas that kept emerging there, along with everything filling my sketchbook, into this project.

All the hard work would have been worth it just for the messages, comments, and support alone.

This project holds so many layers, small details, shifting systems, and changes tied to time itself… moon phases, calendars, cycles, and movement. As we move away from the full moon, you’ll start noticing subtle changes.

Thank you for looking at it, supporting it, collecting it, and spending time with it. It truly means a lot.

[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

“Gift of Time” opens today at 12:00pm ET
Part of my @artblocks_io x @opensea Artist residency in Marfa, Texas.

During my time in Marfa, time felt slower, longer, and more visible. The work transforms that feeling into a living system of movement, memory, and connection, using blockchain data to synchronize its internal movement to the present, so it does not begin when it is seen, nor stop when it is unseen.

April 30th 12:00pm ET
Links in comments 🔗

[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

Gift of Time pages are now public on both @artblocks_io and @opensea

Minting opens this Thursday at 12:00 PM ET, but until then you can explore the algorithm and learn more about the project.

Huge thanks for all the support, comments, and excitement around the project so far!! 🫶🏼

Links in comments 🔗

[Art Blocks @artblocks_io]

Gift of Time

Last year, in the wide open landscape of Marfa TX, resident artist @ManuelLarino—selected for our Art Blocks x @OpenSea Marfa Residency program—noticed a shift in time. 

“In the desert, I felt time move differently. It stretched, slowed, and became something I noticed… Moments felt longer, attention sharpened, and I became increasingly aware of each moment as it passed.” -@ManuelLarino

[OpenSea @opensea]

“Gift of Time” by @ManuelLarino

⏰ Live on OpenSea on April 30, 2026

[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

April 30 • 12:00pm ET
Art Blocks + OpenSea

“Gift of time” began during my residency in Marfa, Texas, as part of the Art Blocks and OpenSea artist residency program, where a distinct shift in the experience of time became central to the work.

In the desert, I felt time move differently. It stretched, slowed, and became something I noticed. After a few days, the rhythm changed. Moments felt longer, attention sharpened, and I became increasingly aware of each moment as it passed. This work comes from that condition.

Time is not treated only as a theme, but as a system embedded in the structure of the piece. Different ways of measuring time, such as mechanical cycles, calendars, and lunar phases, are translated into rules that continuously transform the work. The piece does not represent time. It runs on it.

Its movement is tied to blockchain time. Even when unseen, it continues to rotate and evolve. When loaded, it synchronizes with the present moment, but it does not begin when it is viewed, and it does not stop when it disappears from the screen.

During the residency, I spent hours thinking, sketching, and making connections. Those connections are also visible. Elastic lines, like rubber bands, link elements across the piece, representing how memories connect, how one thought leads to another, and how everything builds over time. These same connections introduce moments where the system attempts to pull itself back, as if trying to regain control. But it never fully resets. It is not a loop. The movement continues, drifting forward, never returning to a fixed state.

Visually, the work reveals its own construction. Lines, paths, and rotations expose an internal logic, like looking inside a mechanism. The drawing language recalls diagrams, technical sketches, or the interior of a mechanical watch. It is a system in motion, always active.

“Gift of Time” exists because I was given time by Art Blocks, OpenSea, and above all my family. It is my way of saying thank you. It is both a reflection on time and a product of it.

April 30 @ 12:00pm ET
on Art blocks & OpenSea
1 / 1 / 365 • 0.02 Eth

@artblocks_io, @opensea

[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

Gift of Time was started during my residency in Marfa, Texas.

What stayed with me during that month in the desert wasn’t just the landscape, but the feeling that time moved differently. After a few days, everything slowed down, and I became more aware of each moment as it passed.

This piece exists because I was given that time — by @artblocks_io , @opensea , and above all my family. It’s my way of saying thank you.

The work follows that idea. It moves with time, constantly changing. Each second, minute, day, year and beyond brings something new. It draws from different ways we measure time — from calendars to moon phases — reflecting how humans have tracked time across history.

It evolves as time passes — just like we do. It’s not static, because neither is time.

Coming soon. ⏳

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Algorithmic generative art created with code 🤓 @p5xjs #generativeart #generative #art #algorithmicart #creativecoding

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[Manuel Lariño ☔️ @ManuelLarino]

Gift of Time · WIP (Almost there)

This piece has grown a lot since it was first shown at the Art Blocks gallery.
Over the past months, I’ve been slowly adding every idea from my sketchbook while in Marfa.

Time runs through the work in many forms: seconds, minutes, days, months, years, decades, centuries…

Still in progress. Just a few days to go. More updates soon.

Part of my @artblocks_io × @opensea artist residency in Marfa, Texas.

#generativeart #generative #art #algorithmicart #crearicecoding

[Indexy.xyz @indexy_xyz]

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