Hi everyone. Over the past weeks I built an homage to this collection, and I wanted to share it with the people who care about these coins most.
AdjaCENTS is a series of 21 animated works (seven triptychs of three) assembled entirely from the CENTS inscriptions already on chain. Nothing is re-inscribed: each piece is a small renderer plus a table of indices, and every coin is fetched live from the chain while you watch. Close the tab and the clouds disperse; the cents stay exactly where Rutherford left them.
Each triptych treats the coins differently:
- Grid Cents: 625 cents matched by shade to a moving sky
- Merging Cents: neighbouring cents fuse like soap bubbles
- Turning Cents: cents narrow with brightness, as if turning edge-on
- Pressed Cents: bright passages stretch into elongated souvenir pennies
- Cent Slots: bright cents sink into their rows, caught mid-payment
- Half Cents: cents cut in half, sliding side to side with the light
- Quarter Cents: every cell holds a quarter-cent; whole coins reassemble only by chance
A couple of details for this room in particular: the shared palette is 484 cents, a number Lincoln collectors will recognize (the 1909-S VDB mintage), and the series marker rests on a sat mined the evening of November 12th, 2025, the day of the final strike in Philadelphia.
Out of respect for the project, none of it is for sale; the series is held as a collection. However, every work has a downloadable HD video, and each triptych a side-by-side cut, and you are very welcome to post them anywhere cents deserve more eyes. That is exactly what they are for.
Full write-up and the video downloads:
https://mlo.art/news/blog-posts/adjacents-seven-triptychs-from-borrowed-cents/
