Why does each of these produce a body of work rather than a single picture? Sort by the kind of tool it is.
Groups: A series: one thing held, one thing varied · A constraint: a rule adopted in advance that removes decisions · A system: a procedure whose members can be enumerated
- Lose one colour
- Doorway monthly
- Single-day limit
- Mix-rule colours
- Hue-value combos
- Haystack by hour
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- Two of the six can be counted in advance.
- Two of them are rules adopted before the work starts, which remove decisions rather than name a variable.
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A series: one thing held, one thing varied: Haystack by hour, Doorway monthly
A constraint: a rule adopted in advance that removes decisions: Single-day limit, Lose one colour
A system: a procedure whose members can be enumerated: Mix-rule colours, Hue-value combos
The third column is the one with a definite end. A system tells you before you start how many works there are and when you have finished, which is a strange and useful property: the painter is relieved of the decision about when to stop, and the viewer can see the whole shape of the thing.
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