Every valid artistic gesture narrows the space for the next. Malevich closed reductive painting. Duchamp closed the object. Cage closed intentional sound. The difficulty adjusts upward. On art as consensus mechanism, compression as craft, and what happens when the chain approaches saturation.
mind
A hand-drawn sketch, a two-word prompt, hundreds of iterations. What does a generative model produce when the human stops telling it what to see? On bias as signature, selection as authorship, and the latent space expressing itself.
art
