Grant Yun’s Sections launches on Wednesday, November 18, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. ET (noon CT) with Fellowship and OpenSea. It is a fully onchain, generative, interactive project built on the Public Land Survey System, the 1785 grid used to divide much of the United States into one-square-mile sections. The drop is 1,300 hand-selected 1/1 sections minted on OpenSea, plus 12 larger “Megacities” sold in 24-hour auctions on Fellowship’s site. The next evening, Thursday, November 19, NODE in Palo Alto hosts an opening reception where visitors can explore the works on site.
Yun is best known for quiet, flat vector scenes of roads, power lines, and Midwestern towns. Sections takes that look into code and three dimensions, and adds something unusual for a generative drop: every piece carries figures measured from its own drawing and converted with U.S. federal data, not randomly rolled traits. Here is what the project is, how it works, and what to know before launch day.
What Sections is
Fellowship introduced the project on November 6 as Grant’s “first long-form, fully on-chain generative interactive project”, placing it in a line of American artists, from Thomas Cole to Ed Ruscha, who used the landscape to question the nation’s identity. The subject is the survey grid itself. As the collection description on OpenSea explains, land west of the Ohio River was divided into squares one mile on a side, each a section of 640 acres, and roads and property lines across much of the country still follow that grid.
In each work, roads run along the section lines a mile apart. Between them, the code places farmland, center-pivot fields, grain elevators, street grids, towers, freeways, and interchanges, which are named by type, such as cloverleaf, diamond, or stack. Yun says he hand-curated the release from “about a million outputs” he sorted through with Fellowship, and he has been posting the selected sections on X in batches of 100. All 1,300 can be browsed on OpenSea before the sale.
This project ultimately is one that is to show how our shifting global industries dictate our landscape and vice versa.
A section you can drive through
These are not still images. In his announcement thread, Yun shows the entire world built in 3D: vehicles follow basic traffic patterns, trains run along the tracks, cars stop for each other and for oncoming trains, and if a section has an airport, you might catch a plane taking off. One click turns the scene to night, with light coming from homes, towers, streetlights, and cars. Another drops you into a vehicle on the ground for a dash-cam view.
If you open a preview, Yun has posted the keyboard controls: 1, 2, and Q switch views; W A S D move around; U I O change dash-cam angles; and E switches to night. Fellowship adds a collector-side feature: after collecting, owners can frame the cover image their NFT displays, choosing from different perspectives, times of day, and points of view.
Megacities: nine sections in one work
Alongside the main set, Yun and Fellowship are releasing 12 Megacities. Fellowship describes them as a small curated subproject that covers a 3-by-3-mile area instead of the standard single square mile. Yun calls each one a composite of nine contiguous sections, nine times the size of a standard work, with the same interactive features: day and night, street view, and moving traffic. He notes that, of the 12 he chose, only one sits along the water.
The Megacities are 1/1s sold through 24-hour auctions on fellowship.xyz, running alongside the standard sale on November 18. Yun has said the auctions open with no reserve.
Measured, not rolled: what the attributes mean
Most generative collections assign traits by chance. Sections does the opposite. According to the OpenSea collection page, each work lists figures measured from its drawing and converted using U.S. federal data, including road distance, residents, energy and water use, and carbon. Yun previewed the panel in his thread, saying every piece comes with “a set of objective attributes describing your world,” all drawn from U.S. public sources.
The preview shows eight attributes: road distance, annual energy, annual water, construction hours, embodied carbon, operating carbon, residents, and food eaten, each with its source cited, from Federal Highway Administration manuals to EIA energy surveys, EPA emissions data, and USDA figures. In the farm example, residents and food eaten both read “None,” while the other six figures are given as ranges or upper limits. For collectors, that turns each piece into a small, readable portrait of how land use, infrastructure, and consumption fit together.
From Midwest illustrations to code
If you know Yun’s earlier work, Sections will feel familiar. We first covered his clean, Precisionist-inspired scenes in our look at Neo-Precisionism in digital art, and later his “A Bright Spring Day” release on Solana, part of his Life in Japan series. Per his artist bio on the collection page, he was born in San Jose in 1996 and is based in Milwaukee, where he balances art with medical studies.
Yun says he spent years thinking about how to bring that visual language into new technology, and he studied his Midwest illustrations closely along the way. He has since posted side-by-sides that match a Midwest illustration to dash-cam views from Sections, and the resemblance is striking. Fellowship has also been revisiting his past series before launch, including Squiggles, his study of the Chromie Squiggle, Art Blocks’ onchain generative classic. For more on that community, see our guide to Art Blocks Marfa Weekend 2026.
How the November 18 drop works
Yun and Fellowship have shared these release details:
- Launch: Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 1:00 p.m. ET (noon CT, 10 a.m. PT).
- Sections: 1,300 1/1 editions, minted on OpenSea. Yun’s posted schedule lists an allowlist stage for his past 1/1 collectors on Ethereum at 0.05 ETH, a free community stage for 30 giveaway wallets, then a public mint open to everyone at 0.05 ETH (source).
- Megacities: 12 1/1s, each sold in a 24-hour auction on fellowship.xyz.
- Before you mint: stage start times on the OpenSea drop page can be adjusted, so check the live page on launch day rather than relying on screenshots.
See Sections at NODE in Palo Alto
Yun has said he is partnering with NODE to show the works starting November 19 “for a few days.” NODE, a nonprofit foundation focused on how digital art is experienced, lists an opening reception at 180 University Avenue in Palo Alto on Thursday, November 19, from 6 to 10 p.m. PT, with registration on Luma. According to the event page, visitors will be able to navigate the fictional landscapes, switch between aerial and street-level views, day and night, and line drawings and fully rendered scenes, or simply watch the simulated traffic. Yun will be there in person.
- Where: NODE, 180 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301.
- When: Opening reception Thursday, November 19, 2026, 6–10 p.m. PT.
- RSVP: Grant Yun: Sections on Luma.
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