Kenny Lienhard Plates 2026

Plates

52 generative artworks, each bound to a tectonic plate and unfolding at the pace of the Earth.

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Layers of colour are deposited, folded, fractured and eroded by code, then inscribed with fine lines and marks. Each composition follows its plate’s measured drift, while its palette draws on the oceans, forests, deserts and ice above.

Move through the timeline to explore changing landscapes across geological time. Each Plate has its own origin and trajectory. Collecting it marks a moment in that history. The work continues.

“Our lives occupy a brief interval in a planet’s history. We learn to measure time through memory, through generations, through the limits of a body. The Earth moves to a different rhythm.

What first drew me to blockchain was the possibility of making work on another timescale. Paper yellows. Ink fades. Publishing onchain offers a different kind of continuity: a work that may outlive its maker, its institutions, and the circumstances of its creation.

Plates is addressed to that distant audience. A body of generative work drawn from the planet itself, each piece is bound to a tectonic plate whose movement becomes part of its unfolding. The hand that made it will disappear. The ground beneath it will keep moving.”

Kenny Lienhard

Major plates7

Minor plates13

Microplates32