Systems resist resolution. The physics runs, shapes find each other, connections form where proximity allows. Nothing is placed. Everything is negotiated.

I've been building a generative tool that works through attraction and repulsion. Same-color circles pulling toward each other, bridging when they get close enough, settling into blobs and rods and clusters I didn't design. The seed determines everything. I determine the rules. Then I run it and see what the rules wanted.

Entropy is the subject, not the problem.

Each color draws as a separate pass. The geometry lands on paper and the paper does the rest. Ink accumulates at the edges. What the system produces and what the physical world produces are two different things happening at the same time.

The tool is open and running. Make something. See what the system wants.

1. Donate here to get a limited print
   
   Edition of 10
   4 colors
   Signed A3 print
   Canson mixed media, 184lb
   Available to first ten donors

   
   

2. Email merdenberger@gmail.com to claim yours.

   
   

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