How it works

New to generative art? It is simpler than it sounds.

I write the rules, the program draws

I do not draw these pictures by hand. I write a program, and the program draws them, differently every time it runs. What I decide is what it is allowed to do: which shapes, which colours, how an edge tears, what makes a good sheet and what does not. The drawing is the program’s. The taste is mine, and that part takes weeks.

An edition is a fixed number of them

When a piece is finished I release it as an edition, thirty two for the recent works. Each one is a separate run, so no two people have the same drawing.

What you own is not a picture file. It is the run itself: the program, and the number it started from. That number always draws the same picture, so the work can be made again at any size, for as long as the code can run. It is why a print can be as large as a wall.

Have a look

Every edition has its own page, with the program running live in your browser: Pattern Collapse and Out of Register. The Works page runs the older versions too, if you want to watch the rules change: hold one seed and step back through them.