Figures without chance
Generative art in which no die is ever cast.
Postulates
Most generative art begins by rolling dice. A random seed is drawn, the rule runs, and out comes one picture of a family the artist will never see whole; the seed is shown beside it as a serial number, and a different visitor gets a different picture.
Here nothing is rolled. Every figure is a fixed rule fed with something the reader already holds, such as today’s date or a word they choose, and it gives the same figure to everyone who gives it the same thing. Nothing in it can be called lucky.
The position taken is that chance flatters a weak rule, and that a rule worth looking at is still worth looking at when every one of its results can be called up by name. Each figure is set out as a proposition: what is to be made, how, and why it could not have come out otherwise.