Introduction
Each token seed controls combinations of lines, colours and forms to construct an impression of landscape. The statement describes a generative composition rather than a survey of a particular terrain.
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Constructing landscape impressions from seeds
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Work and historical context
Art Blocks dates Subscapes to 2021-04-23, with an edition field of 650 works and attribution to Matt DesLauriers. This dates the release, not the beginning of every sketch or development process.
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Constructing landscape impressions from seeds
Each token seed controls combinations of lines, colours and forms to construct an impression of landscape. The statement describes a generative composition rather than a survey of a particular terrain.
Section sources: Subscapes by Matt DesLauriers
Viewing the work and its documentation
Compare the contours, colour bands and local textures that make Subscapes resemble terrain. Its movement between landscape and abstraction need not imply that an output maps a real geographical site.
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Art-historical significance and comparison
Editorial interpretation: Treating landscape as parameter space opens a way to study its relation to landscape painting without assigning each output a real-world location.
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Treating landscape as parameter space opens a way to study its relation to landscape painting without assigning each output a real-world location.
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Subscapes
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