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Wall Drawing #95

I'm contemplating a project of recreating a whole bunch of Sol Lewitt's Wall Drawings via P5.JS “When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art. ”       Sol LeWitt, “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,” 1967 P5.JS seems like a good tool to play around with this idea.  The image above comes from some code I wrote to execute the instructions Lewitt wrote for this piece.  His instructions were: On a wall divided vertically into fifteen equal parts, vertical lines, not straight, using four colors in all one-, two-, three-, and four-part combinations. I created the piece you see above trying to mimic fairly closely the execution of the work I've seen at MASS MoCA . Having done that I took some time and played with the drawing, trying to stay within the constraints given.  In particular I played with wider &qu
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