Ways of knowing...
Ways of seeing…

I can trace the origin of *Pre-Process* back to a Saturday afternoon in 2003 when I was sketching—first on paper, and then with code. I began by drawing circles, then connecting their center points, and then placing the circles in motion as coded animation. At that time, I was focused on *ideas* and not *images*—specifically, on dynamic systems and the ways a set of elements relate to each other within an imagined environment. I was working through questions about how to experience these systems and what might be an ideal (or interesting) way to engage with them. 

The ideas and code from this session later became the core of much of my subsequent work: including the foundation for the *Process* series of software, prints, and installations and the more recent *Process Compendium* works. *Pre-Process* pulls these origin points back into focus, develops them with what I’ve learned in the intervening years, and puts them on the blockchain to be archived. I consider the project a Rosetta Stone for my practice. It asks fundamental questions about the relationships between process and end result, including: Where is the aesthetic focus of a generative system? Is it deep within the code or within the picture the system creates?

Ultimately, *Pre-Process* emphasizes experiencing the origin of the system and then transitioning with it as it seeks, but never finds, equilibrium. The system is built around Element 1, the first that I created for the *Process* series:

*Element 1: Form 1 + Behavior 1 + Behavior 2 + Behavior 3 + Behavior 4
Form 1: Circle
Behavior 1: Move in a straight line
Behavior 2: Constrain to surface
Behavior 3: Change direction while touching another Element
Behavior 4: Move away from an overlapping Element*

*Pre-Process* is the origin of a long journey that I’m still on. It continues to ask essential questions and to encourage me to explore possibilities. Through it, I came to realize that I was ultimately more a picture-maker than a conceptual artist, or, the way I like to think about it,  I’m a “conceptual artist” with a small ‘c.’ I want the energy to be with the system (the ideas) *and* the surface (the picture) in equal measure. More directly, the work exists *between* the instructions, the performance and interpretation of the instructions, and the resulting images.

Pre-Process #32

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#017 - Pidgeotto Noun (2/5)

The artwork is based on the biblical story of three brothers: Cain, Abel and Seth. They are metaphorically represented as the three phases of the moon.

«Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand»

Triptych: Cain, Abel, Seth

Alicia dreams of becoming a vampire when she grows up.

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#2 Alicia Kid

The meeting of the angel with Mary in the eternity. The meeting takes place outside of time. I made the angel as a woman to show her androgyny. 

The angel said to her, «Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus.... He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end».
Luke  1:26-38

The Annunciation

Lena dreams of becoming a witch when she grows up.

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#3 Lena Kid

Pan: Unknown Religion 
The Awakening

The world is awakening.
The Bacchae watch white noise. 
They wait for their god.
Pan is coming...

Music: Land of Wu

The Awakening

Gabriel dreams of becoming a dark prince when he grows up.

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#5 Gabriel Kid

Pan: Unknown Religion
The Ritual

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. 
Is that true? Will the god answer us? 
Pan is coming...

Music: Land of Wu

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