End (Generative Descent into Chaos)

Sometimes, when you think too hard about a process that relies on intuition, you end up overly complicating your work. You can also lean into intuition so far that you lose the thread. With Generative Line Study Painting IX, I can’t decide whether it’s over or under-thought, but I don’t like it. It was heavily planned: the most of any of the studies. The base is entirely constructed and maybe too much so. I decided the lines should be as loose as the base is structured, so I took them where they pleased. The lines on top are more focused on emphasizing the base painting than on the generative premise of line structure, and I wonder if it’s too much of a departure; it seems to be a leap towards something else that I don’t want to make. The work becomes unpredictable and chaotic; leading in odd directions. All that said, it is perhaps exactly the right conceptual ending per the premise of the Generativity project. It is an artificial construct taking on a life of its own. It becomes a coda: entirely different from everything previously created, far from the original design, and leaping towards things unintended.