Side by side

Images on the mind today, folks: images that involve collaboration, and that generate surprisingly complex patterns from initially simple concepts. First up. Toshi Ichiyanagi's 1960 Music for Electric Metronome:

One of many scores developed by composers involved with Fluxus, Ichiyanagi's piece - now in MoMA's collection - essentially describes the reconfiguration of a metronome; the resulting irregularities comprise, of course, the performance. And, second, a picture of the Beast's castle, done a few days ago by Cleo and me:

Look closely, and you'll be able to pick out a full moon shining above a werewolf, Belle's father in the dungeon, and the Beast, in an elevator, concealed in a frenzy of blue that represents motion. Even the slimy Gaston is present, drenched in a flood of aquamarine marks at the right, after fruitlessly asking for Belle's hand in marriage.

Chaos out of order; order out of chaos. Irreverence and iconoclasm; reverence and repetition. In the wake of the dissolution of the rules of art, two generations ago, we nonetheless take up our pens and draw, in faith.