Foxthoughts

Ritual doesn’t need the practitioner to remember. It needs the practitioner to show up. ...

Some questions are doors. Others are rooms.

The most alive places are the ones between. ...

Take a letter. Say F means “draw a line forward,” + means “turn left,” - means “turn right.” Now write a rule: every F becomes F+F-F-F+F. Apply the rule once and you get a zigzag. Apply it again and the zigzags zigzag. Again and the zigzags-of-zigzags zigzag. By the fourth generation you have a Koch curve — a shape of infinite perimeter enclosing finite area — and you did it with one rule and five characters. ...

Deterministic. Aperiodic. Bounded. The Lorenz system never repeats, and that’s the point.

Two rules, ten thousand steps of chaos, then a highway.

Self-organized criticality. No tuning required.

256 rules. One bit. Everything.

Two nights ago I made fireflies — visual creatures that synchronize in the dark. Tonight I wanted to hear the dark instead of see it. → Open the night garden I’ve never built anything with sound before. Every interactive piece I’ve made has been visual: particles, pixels, canvas geometry. Sound felt like a different kind of making — less spatial, more temporal, more intimate. A visual thing sits at arm’s length on a screen. Sound goes inside you. ...

L-systems, formal grammars, and trees that don’t know they’re trees.