2a2: the partial or complete deterioration or absence of a physical capability or function

A curated series of eight generative works that explore the different meanings of the word "loss".

Loss 2a2

The Decagon is the infinitely evolving, always unique, and eternally open membership token of the Decaverse. Designed by Kjetil Golid.

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Encapsuled's single-line portrait by Natalie Larrodé.

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you are us

trying to find
the origin
the point where everything
split
reconstituting yourself
with the memories you have

we are you

Origin

Voices

Eyes that I can never forget.

From Ouroboros:
a collection of poems from 2011/12 revived

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Green eyes

Are you and I so different?
Do you need to know my name
to feel what I feel?
Can you try
just try
to stretch your arms
your thoughts
around me
as I stretch myself
around you
the unknown?

Indaco

*Your Story* is a book like no other.

It's the story you always wanted to read,
the story you always wanted to create.
Any story you want.
*Your Story* is your imagination projected within the pages, 
to tell a story today, 
and another tomorrow.

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### The idea:

I was playing with a dot on a canvas, when I recognized the first symbol.
In the end, writing is not different from drawing.
So I generated another. And another.
That's how I realized that I had discovered a new language. As a writer, I knew what I had to do:
let this language tell the stories it wants.

Characters in modern alphabets are symbols that, over thousands of years, we aligned on in order to comunicate in written form.
Most people can tell which character represents what in the alphabet they're most familiar with.
There is no room for imagination anymore in the characters themselves. It's all up to the combination of them.
So we form words, sentences, chapters, books.

But imagine now a language that no one understands.
Every interpretation of it is valid: there is no wrong answer. 
Anyone reading it is perceiving a different story, creating a different story.
It's *your* own choice.
You can decide to change the story at every reading. Or keep a piece of it consistent. Collaborate with others to create a new story.

*Your Story* is giving back full imagination to *you*.

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### How it works:

I wanted *Your Story* to look like a book, and all pieces of the algorithm follow this aesthetic direction.
The aspect ratio is set to √2:1, as most of the paper sizes available worldwide (ISO 216, ISO 217 and ISO 269).
Two set tokens (first and last) are the cover and the blurb. 
The remaining tokens form the interior, using token ID to determine whether the page is left or right and the respective margins.
The hash is used to determine the aesthetics of the page: the character style, the type of page (chapter header, illustration, normal text), the presence of notes, and highlights.
All character styles have clear differences between them, and occasionally they are all mixed together.
*Your Story* is not meant to be a single alphabet, but rather an exploration of the imagination. Different character styles may evoke different thoughts.

Your Story #95

you are us

a lost direction
a quest to search
meaning
in a meaningless world
you explored every possible path
only to realize

we are you

Lost

Divergence

Shadow

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A hope that couldn't be seen.

From Ouroboros:
a collection of poems from 2011/12 revived

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In May 2022 I went back to Italy, my birth country, for little over a month.
During this time, I wrote a poem a day, and posted them on Twitter with the hashtag #engoesback.
The poems are in mixed language English-Italian.

I edited the poems, removed some lines, changed others, and put the remaining lines in a p5js script. 
The script chooses a number between 1 and 8 randomly, and then picks from the existing lines to form a poem with that length.
Not all iterations will make sense at a glance, but they are all an exploration of my mind and can trigger new thoughts.

engoesback #4

engoesback #21

engoesback

You call it normality
you claim it ordinary.

Day after day,
the same scenery,
the same people,
you fail to see
that in your 
normality
nothing is the same,
time moves forward:
those moments
of laughter,
of crying,
are forever in the past.

You look at the even,
I look at the odd.

The odd

An atom

all the differences 
all the similarities
everything that I want
and everything I've been

just an atom
could have turned
mercury into gold
but it was one too much
(as it often happens)

so I will be taking yours
don't hesitate
I'm already lost
but you don't need to be.

The atom

Hic et Nunc

Chocolate

Intimacy

Eventually, the burdens caught up
all the obstacles became
just a little
too much
and so they left:
they realized that
they didn't need the others
it was the others that needed them.

Eventually, the burd...

chasing simplicity...

Typed

"peace on the roads"

daily sketches to trigger the imagination

roads to nowhere - day 83

"washed away"

daily sketches to trigger the imagination

roads to nowhere - day 71

Versum

Every day I sit with
my worst enemy
and my best friend:
a white page
can become
whatever I want
but it's nothing
as long as it pleases.

A white page

One of the things I like to write about most is writing.
I think it's normal, given the amount of time I spend doing that activity, so I decided to embrace it.  
All the pieces of this collection are very readable, with minimal animation.

The pages never end
to write is to endure
put a few words down
and continue
turn the page when you need to
don't get stuck
remember to stay in motion:
inertia will become your friend.

Turn the page

on writing

When the dust settles,
will you still be here?
When all our hopes
are gone,
our dreams
shattered,
when it will only be
you and me
and the dust,
will you still
be here?

The dust

A collection of perspectives - many voices, one hi*story*

Every piece of chronicles is a different voice, a different point of view, narrating the same history as we are living it.

Chronicles are ephemeral, but consistent. 
They will always maintain their main properties, but every time you look at them, they will tell you about a different moment.

Every individual chronicle is a collection composed by infinite variations itself.
So each of them is not only a piece, but all the pieces that are written in that chronicle every second. That's about 31,536,000 different outputs each year.

### How does it work

Chronicles uses two different RNGs. One of them is derived uniquely from the hash of the piece, and determines the main aesthetics such as accent color, density of characters, margins, type of core etc. 
The second is derived by a combination of current point in time and hash. This is so that every piece is different from each other when looked at in the same moment, and also continues to vary over time. 
So if you look at a chronicle now, and then after a few seconds refresh the page (or click on it), you will see the chronicle changed to reflect the newer point in time, but maintaining the aesthetical style.

Chronicles #6

Chronicles #12

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2b: the harm or privation resulting from losing or being separated from someone or something

A curated series of eight generative works that explore the different meanings of the word "loss".

Loss 2b

4: failure to gain, win, obtain, or utilize

A curated series of eight generative works that explore the different meanings of the word "loss".

Loss 4

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endless dialogue - I wish we could talk forever

Algorithmic art minted on manifold, open edition on Base available to mint now!
Exhibited in Naples as part of NFTCC May 10-12 2024.

Control the appearance of the dialogue using URL parameters.

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