The 12 rooms are built in p5.js from a kit of parts - surfaces, structure, podia, cupola - arranged randomly at mint. There are a lot of constraints shaping what goes with what. Random() is such a powerful driver of generative art, here I am trapping it with architectural regulation.

Other things join the sequential ball of thread transiting through the labyrinth; a ghost with its own pathway (its own rules), skittish bugs that scatter and occasionally explode, crypts. Color palettes with a ‘solid’ materiality are most common, others are ‘backlit’ with glowing color.

As the rooms resize to suit the window proportions (the screen, that other container of rules) they unroll to reveal an underground, then roll up again with contraction. Screen resize is a tactile way of interacting with a digital artwork whose systems recalculate and rearrange to viewing device. I like how clunky and imprecise and laggy this movement is, how extremes of proportion can nearly break the work, I like how the viewer is actively prodding and poking the algorithm via a physical viewing apparatus (mouse, touchpad, actual fingers). The medium has a friction, it almost has a sound.

The unicurse are like those little toys from the museum gift-shop, hand-held models of big ideas. Like mini zen sandpits, machines with a déjà vu of function, big things made small and simple, an easy puzzle performed absent-mindedly in the palm of your hand. Toys toys toys, rules rules rules: substrates of generative NFTs.