digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines
Today, 43 works. By Saturday, 14 November, none of them.
Each piece is generated once, straight from a formula, and never remade. The lines land wherever the math puts them; the colour falls where chance decides. Nothing on this wall is a print or a copy. What hangs here now will be gone before you think to look again, and something that has never existed will take its place.
When the Glad Candle amid Burgeoning
Six staves and a great deal of quiet around them. The pale ochre ground lets each colour keep its own voice.
Saturday, 31 Oct
43 works so far 2,708 shapes
Hung today, 31 October · leaves the wall on 14 November.
Plain Atoll Against the Flowing
The Canyon of Dignified via Shifting
The Sienna Arch under Staying
Celestial Blossom into the Freshening
Stoic Basin past the Anchoring
The Old-fashioned Acre up Anchoring
The Easygoing Bluff across Fashioning
The Firm Bog under Girding
The Woven Arch underneath the Lodging
Awash Alabaster across Heightening
The Bloom on Phosphorescent Twinkling
The Basin under Mossy Ripening
Haunted Bedrock atop Darkening
The Toasted Atoll over the Guarding
Matronly Basin opposite the Dwelling
The Cave before Tired Yielding
When the Distant Brook with Calming
What Heartsick Abyss along Defiling
When Weighty Bay beside Moving
The Soaring Air amid Cresting
When Firm Bluff through Abiding
The Arch of Time-honored toward Shifting
The Sober Bog in the Arching
The Buoyant Blaze round Leaping
When Intrinsic Acre opposite Filling
Embittered Brine after Stalling
Composed Acre along the Bordering
The Alcove of Grainy above Pausing
When Permanent Bluff without Centering
The Blaze in Open Glimmering
When the Honest Alcove via Spanning
The Dull Boulder via Lapsing
The Measured Bog along Continuing
Tawny Basin Around Changing
The Stocky Acre on the Reckoning
The Canyon of Enduring beside Abiding
When the Shrouded Carbon off Yielding
The Bluff of Durable till Calming
The Canyon before Cultivated Casting
The Blaze out Shining Aerating
What the Cool Candle among Lifting
Harmonious Blaze along Crystallizing
One line. One moment. Never again.
Every work on this wall comes out of code and chance. Nothing is traced from a template, and no filter is laid over it afterwards. An algorithm takes a new random start for every picture and lets the uncertainty do the rest.
The works are made live through the day, one every few minutes, from carefully balanced parameters. Shapes unfold, colours shift and lines cross in ways nobody can predict, and nobody can repeat them either. The rules are strict and the outcome is open, which is why some pictures look as if they had chosen their own path.
Nothing is edited and nothing is made twice. Each picture is what one run of the program produced, and it exists in that one version only. That makes every piece here one of a kind, a fingerprint left by the code: precise and random at the same time, and not made to last.
Whether you collect, make things yourself or just like rhythm in a picture, stop here for a moment. What you find will be gone soon, and nothing quite like it will come back.
Each work is made once and never copied. Go and find yours.