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Public Record
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Creation and Recreation: Methodology versus Conversation.

[…] Mechanical Artists create works through methodologies; Fluid Artists create works through conversation. Every conversation has equal opportunity to be unique, based upon the countless tangents each response is capable of. Every method, however, has a predictable result; that is the goal of a method. If a method is well-formed and accessible, the only way to vary from expectation is to follow the method incorrectly. […] A person that others might describe as “methodical” is generally a Mechanical performer within their given Skillset. This person follows practiced methods in order to accomplish her tasks, and updates her methods as others prove to be more efficient. Learning by method often results in Output where the end result is known before the actual creative process starts, also known as Finish-to-Start art.

In a conversation, each decision is a response to the decision that came before it. In this way the Artist creates a conversation with the Artform by listening and responding to the results of her experiment(s). The only limitations of this conversation are the Boundaries she creates and adjusts as new decisions are made. […] Creating art through conversation results in Start-to-Finish art, wherein the Output is largely unknown before creation begins.

The majority of a Fluid Artist’s creative process is spent establishing and testing the structural integrity of her Boundaries within the Skillset. She determines her capabilities in the Artform through a series of experiments, decided by her individual interests: these are her Boundaries within the Artform. When she has established her Boundaries within the Artform, she uses experiments to test them, until her artistic Boundaries have been set, tested, adjusted, and reinforced. In doing so, she has created the cast into which her Self will be poured and molded into. Once petrified, the result of this becomes her artistic Output. […] Once an artist is aware of her boundaries within an Artform, her practice involves just staying within them. Once she consistently remains aware of her boundaries, each of her decisions is in direct response to the decision that came before it. Eventually, the Artist’s Boundaries become second nature to her, and each work is a Fluid conversation with the Artform, created by listening and responding to the outcome of each decision. The Artist’s Boundaries will expand and reshape over time.

Self-proclaimed Fluid architect, Hanbert Quartsh, onse said, “My job, then, is merely to adjust the boundaries of my structure the Fluid can flow well through. Where the boundaries are wide, the Fluid runs easily through it. Where narrow, the Fluid pools. So long as I don’t stop pouring my Self into the mold, the Output will, at some point, be complete.” […]

Pernard Quinshent